VENTURA COUNTY VOTER REGISTRATION

Democrats held a majority in Ventura County voter registrations from the 1940s until the late 1980s. Ventura County now ranks with Orange, Inyo and Sutter as the California counties with the highest percentage of Republican voters. Melissa Warren of the California secretary of state’s office in Sacramento said Ventura’s transformation is part of a statewide trend, but experts disagree on the causes of that trend.

June 1974 1980 1984 1988 Total number of registered voters 170,721 213,122 249,966 285,836 Republicans 42% 41% 42% 46% Democrats 51% 48% 46% 42% Independents and others 7% 11% 12% 12% 1980 1984 1988 CAMARILLO Democrats 8,131 9,338 9,798 Republicans 8,907 10,857 13,450 FILLMORE Democrats 1,705 1,886 2,141 Republicans 1,125 1,311 1,630 MOORPARK Democrats *N/A 2,203 3,311 Republicans N/A 1,823 4,556 OJAI Democrats 1,742 1,915 1,937 Republicans 1,534 1,639 1,869 OXNARD Democrats 18,698 23,736 25,267 Republicans 9,365 11,559 14,360 PORT HUENEME Democrats 2,694 3,202 3,318 Republicans 2,058 2,413 2,894 SANTA PAULA Democrats 4,195 4,743 5,102 Republicans 2,610 2,843 3,276 SIMI VALLEY Democrats 14,161 14,930 15,048 Republicans 12,381 15,379 22,072 THOUSAND OAKS Democrats 13,577 16,676 16,641 Republicans 17,521 23,929 29,578 VENTURA Democrats 17,955 21,383 21,738 Republicans 14,918 18,093 21,069

* Not an incorporated city in 1980 N/A: Not available