Editing San Mateo, California (section)

==Government==
[[File:US Post Main Office, 210 S. Ellsworth Ave., San Mateo, CA 7-31-2011 8-12-45 PM (cropped).JPG|thumb|left|The historic [[Spanish Colonial Revival]]-style San Mateo post office]]

San Mateo is structured as a [[Council–manager government|council–manager]] form of government. The city council has five members elected every two years to staggered four-year terms.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://qcode.us/codes/sanmateo/|title=San Mateo City Charter and Municipal Code (San Mateo, California)|website=qcode.us|access-date=January 29, 2019|archive-date=October 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191027001359/https://qcode.us/codes/sanmateo/|url-status=dead}}</ref>  In 2022, the city began the process of switching from at-large elections to district elections.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cityofsanmateo.org/4537/District-Elections|title =District Elections|website=cityofsanmateo.org|access-date=December 8, 2022}}</ref>

In the [[California State Legislature]], San Mateo is in {{Representative|casd|13|fmt=sdistrict}}, and in {{Representative|caad|21|fmt=adistrict}}.<ref>{{cite web
 | url = http://statewidedatabase.org/gis/gis2011/index_2011.html
 | title = Statewide Database
 | publisher = UC Regents
 | access-date = November 18, 2014
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150201113744/http://statewidedatabase.org/gis/gis2011/index_2011.html
 | archive-date = February 1, 2015
}}</ref>

In the [[United States House of Representatives]], San Mateo is in {{Representative|cacd|15|fmt=district}}.<ref>{{Cite GovTrack|CA|15|access-date=January 24, 2023}}</ref>

According to the [[Secretary of State of California|California Secretary of State]], as of February 10, 2019, San Mateo has 54,946 registered voters. Of those, 27,502 (50.1%) are registered [[California Democratic Party|Democrats]], 8,504 (15.5%) are registered [[California Republican Party|Republicans]], and 16,772 (30.5%) have [[Decline to State|declined to state]] a political party.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ror/ror-odd-year-2019/politicalsub.pdf|title=CA Secretary of State – Report of Registration – February 10, 2019|website=ca.gov|access-date=March 12, 2019}}</ref>