Santa Rosa, CA 95409 has a diverse political landscape. It is the county seat of Sonoma County, and its residents are represented on the national level by both Democrats and Republicans in Congress. The City of Santa Rosa is run by a council-manager form of government, with six city council members elected from districts across the city and a mayor who presides over the council meetings. Currently all six positions are held by Democrats. At the state level, Santa Rosa is represented by both Democratic and Republican legislators from California’s 2nd District in Sacramento. On local issues such as housing affordability, environmental protection, education funding, improving public safety and infrastructure, citizens have multiple options to become involved in their local politics. Through participation in organized advocacy groups or through direct involvement with elected officials to voice concerns or support for certain policies, individuals can actively participate in policies that affect them on a daily basis.
The political climate in Zip 95409 (Santa Rosa, CA) is strongly liberal.
Sonoma County, CA is very liberal. In Sonoma County, CA 74.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 23.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Sonoma county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 74.5% to 23.0%.
Sonoma county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 95409 (Santa Rosa, CA) is strongly liberal.
Santa Rosa, California is strongly liberal.
Sonoma County, California is very liberal.
Santa Rosa-Petaluma Metro Area is very liberal.
California is strongly liberal.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index is based on recent voting in national elections, federal campaign contributions by local residents, and consumer personality profiles.
VoteWord™
Displaying 20 years of Presidential voting, visualized in one word.
Santa Rosa, California: D D D D D D
How It Works:
Here at BestPlaces, we were looking at the voting patterns since the 2000 election and realized that we could express the results of each election as one letter. R if the Republican Party candidate won, D for the Democrat and I for the Independent. The six elections (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) would be expressed as six-letter word (R R D R R).
Then we went a little further and added the dimension of magnitude. If the difference of victory was greater than 10 percent, the letter is upper case, and lower case if the difference was less than 10 percent. This allows us to see interesting voting patterns at just a glance.
Here's the VoteWord for Iowa d r d d r. In the last six elections the state has been closely contested, voting narrowly for the Republican Party candidate in 2016 and 2020 after voting for the Democratic Party in 2008 and 2012. Virginia (r r d d d D) has voted for the Democratic Party in the last three elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in zip 95409 (Santa Rosa)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 12,562 contributions totaling $932,463 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $74 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 734 contributions totaling $75,481 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $103 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)