Stockton, CA is the 13th largest city in California and has a population of 306,000. It is also the county seat of San Joaquin County and home to many diverse communities. Stockton is served by a mayor-council government system in which the mayor serves as the executive head of the city. The city council is composed of seven members and they are responsible for making important decisions on behalf of the citizens. In 95205 Stockton, there are several local political candidates who are vying for residents’ votes in upcoming elections. These candidates have wide-ranging views on how to best serve the needs of their constituents and work to ensure that Stockton remains an attractive place to live for all its residents.
The political climate in Zip 95205 (Stockton, CA) is somewhat liberal.
San Joaquin County, CA is somewhat liberal. In San Joaquin County, CA 55.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 41.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, San Joaquin county remained strongly Democratic, 55.6% to 41.8%.
San Joaquin county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 95205 (Stockton, CA) is somewhat liberal.
Stockton, California is somewhat liberal.
San Joaquin County, California is somewhat liberal.
Stockton Metro Area is somewhat 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.
Stockton, 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 95205 (Stockton)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 102 contributions totaling $10,241 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $100 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 43 contributions totaling $5,736 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $133 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)