Seal Beach, CA is a city located in Orange County, and the politics of this area are reflective of that larger county. The city is represented by a Mayor and City Council members, which are all elected on a nonpartisan basis. At the state level, Seal Beach is represented by State Senator Janet Nguyen and Assemblymembers Phillip Chen and Cottie Petrie-Norris. There is also representation at the federal level with Congresswoman Michelle Steel in District 48 representing Seal Beach. Generally speaking, Seal Beach tends to lean towards conservative leaning candidates due to its location in Orange County. However, recently there has been an uptick in more progressive candidates running for office in the city as well.
The political climate in Zip 90743 (Seal Beach, CA) is somewhat liberal.
Orange County, CA is somewhat liberal. In Orange County, CA 53.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 44.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Orange county remained moderately Democratic, 53.5% to 44.4%.
Orange county voted Democratic in 2020 and 2016, after voting Republican in the previous four elections.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 90743 (Seal Beach, CA) is somewhat liberal.
Seal Beach, California is somewhat liberal.
Orange County, California is somewhat liberal.
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim 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.
Seal Beach, California: R R r r 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 90743 (Seal Beach)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 18 contributions totaling $1,364 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $76 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 68 contributions totaling $46,908 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $690 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)