Wheatland, California is a small town located in the Sacramento Valley with a population of about 3,200 people. It is the county seat of Yuba County and has been since its founding in 1912. Politically, Wheatland leans to the conservative side politically and has consistently voted for Republican candidates in recent years. Locally, there are several political offices that are up for election every few years including city council members and mayor positions. The current mayor is David Malloy who is a member of the Republican party and has held office since 2015. Other local political candidates include individuals from both major parties who campaign on issues such as maintaining economic growth and improving city services. Every few years, local elections are held and local citizens vote for their preferred political candidate to represent them in government offices within Wheatland.
The political climate in Zip 95692 (Wheatland, CA) is moderately conservative.
Yuba County, CA is moderately conservative. In Yuba County, CA 37.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 59.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Yuba county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 59.3% to 37.7%.
Yuba county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 95692 (Wheatland, CA) is moderately conservative.
Wheatland, California is moderately conservative.
Yuba County, California is moderately conservative.
Yuba City Metro Area is moderately conservative.
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.
Wheatland, California: R R R R R R
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 95692 (Wheatland)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 71 contributions totaling $3,922 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $55 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 31 contributions totaling $7,857 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $253 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)