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Survey: Poway is most conservative city in county

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(CNS) — Politically speaking, people in San Diego County cities are among the state’s more conservative, but not the most conservative, according to a ranking of 150 cities based on voter registration.

The Sacramento Bee, in a survey published Monday, listed Poway as the most conservative city in San Diego County and the sixth most conservative city in the state. More than 14,000 people were registered in town as Republicans or with other right-leaning parties, and Democrats or left-leaning third party members numbered about 5,000.

Voters in Carlsbad, Escondido and Santee also fell into the conservative camp.

The survey found that Chula Vistawas the county’s most liberal city, with 48,000 voters registered as Democrats or as members of left-leaning third parties and 34,000 registered as Republicans or members of right-leaning third parties.

Statewide, however, 62 other cities were listed as more liberal than Chula Vista based on ratio of liberals to conservatives.

San Diego was near the middle statewide, ranking as the 65th most liberal city. Information from the Secretary of State’s office showed more than 267,000 liberal voters and more than 199,000 conservative voters.

Encinitas was most evenly split local city, with 212 more conservative voters than liberals out of 28,000 registered voters.

In Berkeley, the most liberal city statewide, liberals outnumber conservatives by a 10-to-1 ratio.

Newport Beach, where conservatives outnumber liberals 3-to-1, was found to be the most conservative city statewide.

The survey was inspired by a story on big city voter registration in The Economist magazine. Those rankings, published Aug. 1, found San Diego to be the 27th most liberal city in the country with a population of more than 250,000.

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