The city of Bakersfield, CA is the 9th largest city in California and the 52nd largest city in the United States. Located in Kern County, it is the county seat and economic hub of Central California. Politically, Bakersfield is represented mostly by Democrats on both a local and state level. The 93307 zipcode alone has three different congressional districts, which are represented by Democrat TJ Cox, Republican Kevin McCarthy, and Democrat Sal Rodriguez. On a state level, Senator Shannon Grove represents the 16th District while Assemblymember Rudy Salas Jr. represents the 32nd district. Both Grove and Salas Jr. are Democrats who recognize their responsibility to serve their constituents foremost in their political decisions. The people of Bakersfield have continued to elect these representatives largely due to their commitment to addressing issues that are important to them such as education, healthcare, economic growth, infrastructure improvements and more.
The political climate in Zip 93307 (Bakersfield, CA) is leaning conservative.
Kern County, CA is somewhat conservative. In Kern County, CA 43.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 53.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Kern county remained strongly Republican, 53.9% to 43.7%.
Kern county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 93307 (Bakersfield, CA) is leaning conservative.
Bakersfield, California is leaning conservative.
Kern County, California is somewhat conservative.
Bakersfield Metro Area is somewhat 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.
Bakersfield, 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 93307 (Bakersfield)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 253 contributions totaling $16,033 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $63 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 172 contributions totaling $59,122 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $344 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)