The City of Sunnyvale, California (94087) is located in Santa Clara County and has a population of approximately 152,000 people. It is currently served by a council-manager form of government in which the Mayor and City Council are elected to represent the city's interests. The Mayor presides over City Council meetings and serves as spokesperson for the City. The current Mayor is Larry Klein. The members of the City Council are: Nancy Smith, Jim Griffith, Gustav Larsson, Gaurav Sethi, Russ Melton, Pat Kolstad, and Chris Moylan. Each member serves four-year terms with elections held every two years in November.
The City Council meets regularly to discuss issues such as public safety, economic development initiatives, public works projects, infrastructure improvements, and other matters relevant to Sunnyvale residents. Through their work on various committees and task forces they strive to ensure that Sunnyvale remains a thriving community with an excellent quality of life for all its citizens. They also work closely with other cities in Santa Clara County to coordinate regional policies that benefit all county residents.
The political climate in Zip 94087 (Sunnyvale, CA) is strongly liberal.
Santa Clara County, CA is very liberal. In Santa Clara County, CA 72.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 25.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Santa Clara county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 72.6% to 25.2%.
Santa Clara county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 94087 (Sunnyvale, CA) is strongly liberal.
Sunnyvale, California is strongly liberal.
Santa Clara County, California is very liberal.
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara 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.
Sunnyvale, 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 94087 (Sunnyvale)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 11,094 contributions totaling $1,244,356 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $112 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 965 contributions totaling $198,431 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $206 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)