Clearlake Oaks, CA is a small community located in Lake County near the Clearlake reservoir. The town has a history of close-knit politics, with local community members involving themselves in civic and local government decisions. The current mayor of Clearlake Oaks is John Smith, who was elected in 2016 and has been working to bring new businesses and economic opportunities to the area. Residents of Clearlake Oaks are passionate about their town and take part in regular town hall meetings to discuss local issues and keep up to date with city news. For example, Mayor Smith recently hosted a meeting to discuss the construction of a new park within the city limits. Local political candidates are often involved in these meetings as well, as they hope to gain support from the community for their election campaigns.
The political climate in Clearlake Oaks, CA is leaning liberal.
Lake County, CA is leaning liberal. In Lake County, CA 51.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 45.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Lake county remained moderately Democratic, 51.5% to 45.3%.
Lake county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Clearlake Oaks, CA is leaning liberal.
Lake County, California is leaning liberal.
Clearlake Metro Area is leaning 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.
Clearlake Oaks, 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 if the Democratic Party candidate won and I if the Independent Party candidate won. 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 Clearlake Oaks, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 644 contributions totaling $25,260 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $39 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 74 contributions totaling $20,872 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $282 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)