Union City, CA is a city located in the San Francisco Bay Area of Alameda County. It is home to nearly 75,000 people and has seen significant growth over the last decade. Union City is represented in local government by Mayor Carol Dutra-Vernaci and four members of the City Council. The council members are Gary Singh, Emily Duncan-Becker, Pat Gacoscos, and Lorrin Ellis. All of these representatives are dedicated to creating a safe and prosperous environment for Union City's residents. They work together to ensure that all voices have an opportunity to be heard and that their decisions will benefit everyone in the community. On important issues such as public safety, housing affordability, infrastructure investment, education quality, and economic development, there is a common focus on making sure everyone in Union City feels secure and has access to opportunities that will improve their lives.
The political climate in Zip 94587 (Union City, CA) is strongly liberal.
Alameda County, CA is very liberal. In Alameda County, CA 79.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 17.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Alameda county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 79.8% to 17.6%.
Alameda county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 94587 (Union City, CA) is strongly liberal.
Union City, California is strongly liberal.
Alameda County, California is very liberal.
San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley 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.
Union City, 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 94587 (Union City)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,914 contributions totaling $192,526 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $66 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 178 contributions totaling $17,757 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $100 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)