SANTA CLARA COUNTY

Santa Clara County is bounded by Alameda County (to the north), San Benito County (to the south/southeast), San Mateo County (to the northwest), Santa Cruz County (to the southwest), Stanislaus County (to the east), and Merced County (to the southeast).

In Santa Clara County, three interstate highways (280, 680, 880), one U.S. highway (101), and eleven state highways (9, 17, 25, 35, 82, 85, 87, 130, 152, 156, and 237) run through it.

POLITICS

Politically, this area is virtually a barren wasteland for Republicans and our civil rights and liberties.

In Santa Clara County, Republicans are now around 29% with Democrats at around 45% with nearly 22% as decline-to-state (3rd largest %, 4th largest in raw numbers). 25% eligible are not registered to vote.

Statewide it's 43 to 35% Democrat to Republican with 16% d-t-s

Source: 2-17-04 Sec of State

http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/ror/county_02_17_04.xls

Click to enlarge Congressional Districts 14th Congressional: D 45.31% R 28.73% DTS 21.06% * 15th Congressional: D 43.66% R 29.81% DTS 22.24% 16th Congressional: D 48.23% R 26.40% DTS 20.92%

Click to enlarge California State Senate Districts 10th State Senate: D 49.67% R 24.56% DTS 21.44% * 11th State Senate: D 46.90% R 27.71% DTS 20.06% * 13th State Senate: D 49.03% R 24.02% DTS 22.32% 15th State Senate: D 38.52% R 39.64% DTS 16.69% *

Click to enlarge California State Assembly Districts 20th Assembly: D 47.17% R 25.57% DTS 23.06% * 21th Assembly: D 44.83% R 31.42% DTS 19.71% * 22th Assembly: D 43.41% R 27.52% DTS 24.67% 23th Assembly: D 51.25% R 21.76% DTS 22.37% 24th Assembly: D 45.01% R 30.88% DTS 19.70% 27th Assembly: D 46.34% R 29.16% DTS 17.60% * 28th Assembly: D 50.62% R 29.99% DTS 15.69% *

* Note: Percentages are for the Santa Clara County portion of the district.

Statewide Statistics 1922_: D 0,305,658 R 0,927,046 1930_: D 0,449,824 R 1,599,413 1934_: D 1,494,111 R 1,418,826 2004P: D 6,518,631 R 5,364,832