San Jose, California (95134) is the largest city in Silicon Valley and has a complex political landscape. Home to over one million people, San Jose is governed by a Mayor-Council system with an Independent Mayor serving as the Executive of the City. The current mayor is Sam Liccardo. Other local political representatives include Vice Mayor Chappie Jones, Councilmembers Dev Davis, Donald Rocha, Raul Peralez, Magdalena Carrasco, and Sylvia Arenas, and County Supervisor Cindy Chavez. This diverse group of elected officials works together to ensure that all residents receive fair representation and services from their local government. With bustling businesses and plenty of new development projects popping up throughout the city on a regular basis, San Jose's politics are always changing and evolving to meet the needs of its population.
The political climate in Zip 95134 (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 95134 (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 95134 (San Jose)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,249 contributions totaling $124,930 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $100 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 89 contributions totaling $34,410 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $387 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)