City Name | Population |
Alameda | 75,467 |
Albany | 18,960 |
Berkeley | 114,961 |
Dublin | 49,890 |
Emeryville | 10,309 |
Fremont | 218,927 |
Hayward | 147,424 |
Livermore | 82,800 |
Newark | 43,539 |
Oakland | 399,487 |
Piedmont | 10,909 |
Piedmont | 71,875 |
San Leandro | 86,869 |
Union City | 71,089 |
District 1 | David Haubert |
District 2 | Richard Valle |
District 3 | Dave Brown |
District 4 | Nate Miley, Vice President |
District 5 | Keith Carson, President |
Area 1 | Joaquin J. Rivera |
Area 2 | Angela Normand |
Area 3 | Ken Berrick |
Area 4 | Aisha Knowles |
Area 5 | Janevette Cole |
Area 6 | Eileen Mc Donald |
Area 7 | Cheryl Cook - Kallio |
Since 1932, Alameda County has been a stronghold of the Democratic Party, with Dwight Eisenhower being the only Republican presidential nominee to have carried the county since. Prior to 1932, the county had been a Republican stronghold. Piedmont resident William F. Knowland was the Republican U.S. Senate Leader from 1953 to 1959. Even when Ronald Reagan won the national popular vote by an 18.3% margin in 1984, Walter Mondale won Alameda County by a larger margin. In 2004 it voted for John Kerry, who won over 75% of the vote. Every city and town voted Democratic. George W Bush in 2004 was the last Republican to break 20% of the county's vote, his father (George H.W. Bush) in 1988 was the last to break 30% of the vote, and Ronald Reagan in 1984 was the last to break 40% of the vote (carrying 40.01%)
The California Secretary of State, as of February 2019, reports that there are 883,942 registered voters in Alameda County. 489,759 (55.4%) are registered Democrats, 95,587 (10.8%) are registered Republicans, 36,649 (4.1%) are registered to minor political parties, and 261,947 (29.6%) declined to answer. Every city, town, and unincorporated area in Alameda County has more registered Democrats than Republicans.[51]
On November 4, 2008, Alameda County voted 61.92% against Proposition 8, which won statewide, and which amended the California Constitution to ban same-sex marriage. The county garnered the sixth highest "no" vote, by percentage, of all California counties, and was the second largest county, by total voter turnout, to vote against it.