The small city of Thousand Palms, California is located in Riverside County with a population of just over 6,000. It is part of the Coachella Valley region in Southern California and is an unincorporated community. Politically speaking, Thousand Palms is part of the 36th Congressional district and is represented in Congress by Raul Ruiz. In the state legislature, Thousand Palms falls within Assembly District 42 and Senate District 28 where various local political candidates are active in representing the area's needs in Sacramento. These representatives have worked to bring more investment into the community to improve quality of life for residents through initiatives such as infrastructure upgrades, job training programs, and other improvements. The local representatives have also been pushing for a greater share of federal money to be allocated to Thousand Palms so that residents can benefit from additional resources like healthcare, education, housing assistance, and other much needed services.
The political climate in Zip 92276 (Thousand Palms, CA) is leaning liberal.
Riverside County, CA is leaning liberal. In Riverside County, CA 53.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 45.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Riverside county remained moderately Democratic, 53.0% to 45.0%.
Riverside county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 92276 (Thousand Palms, CA) is leaning liberal.
Thousand Palms, California is leaning liberal.
Riverside County, California is leaning liberal.
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario 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.
Thousand Palms, 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 92276 (Thousand Palms)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,988 contributions totaling $47,465 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $24 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 60 contributions totaling $6,375 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $106 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)