Santee, California is located in San Diego County and has a population of just over 59,000 people. The city is governed by a five-member City Council, elected at-large to four-year terms. Incumbent Mayor John Minto and Councilmembers Rob McNelis, Stephen Houlahan, Ronn Hall and Jack Dale are currently serving on the Santee City Council. Local government in Santee focuses on maintaining high quality public services while keeping taxes low, increasing economic development opportunities, preserving natural resources, upholding public safety and ensuring sustainability for future generations. In addition to the City Council, there are several advisory commissions that help ensure the community’s needs are met. These include the Planning Commission, Parks and Recreation Commission as well as the Economic Development Corporation. With strong community engagement and support from local government officials, Santee remains a great place to live in San Diego County.
The political climate in Zip 92071 (Santee, CA) is somewhat liberal.
San Diego County, CA is moderately liberal. In San Diego County, CA 60.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 37.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, San Diego county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 60.2% to 37.5%.
San Diego county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 92071 (Santee, CA) is somewhat liberal.
Santee, California is somewhat liberal.
San Diego County, California is moderately liberal.
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad Metro Area is moderately 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.
Santee, California: r r 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 92071 (Santee)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,009 contributions totaling $87,489 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $44 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 761 contributions totaling $155,143 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $204 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)