Politics in 95111 San Jose, CA is largely driven by the local government. The mayor of San Jose is Sam Liccardo and he is joined by 10 council members who are elected to represent the 10 districts of San Jose. All local government policies and initiatives are crafted and approved through the mayoral administration, city council, and other boards and commissions. Local politicians focus on a wide range of initiatives that benefit the citizens of San Jose, including public safety, affordable housing, economic development, infrastructure improvements, parks and recreation spaces, education programs and more. In addition to local candidates, 95111 residents have the opportunity to voice their opinions in state-level elections as well. California has a two-party system requiring strong alliances between state representatives from both major political parties to ensure that laws are passed with support from both sides of the aisle.
The political climate in Zip 95111 (San Jose, CA) is very liberal.
Santa Clara County, CA is very liberal. In Santa Clara County, CA 72.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 25.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Santa Clara county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 72.6% to 25.2%.
Santa Clara county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 95111 (San Jose, CA) is very liberal.
San Jose, California is very liberal.
Santa Clara County, California is very liberal.
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara 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.
San Jose, 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 95111 (San Jose)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 694 contributions totaling $33,096 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $48 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 203 contributions totaling $20,700 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $102 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)