Editing Santa Barbara, California (section)

==Government==
In 2015, the city council voted to change from at-large elections to district elections for city council seats.<ref>Orozco, Lance (March 31, 2015) [http://www.kclu.org/2015/03/31/santa-barbara-city-council-council-chooses-map-for-move-from-at-large-to-district-city-council-seats/ "Santa Barbara City Council Council Takes Final Key Step To End Dispute Over Municipal Elections Process"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150409073736/http://www.kclu.org/2015/03/31/santa-barbara-city-council-council-chooses-map-for-move-from-at-large-to-district-city-council-seats/ |date=April 9, 2015 }} ''[[KCLU (AM)|KCLU Local News]]''</ref>

All of Santa Barbara County falls into [[California's 24th congressional district]]. The district leans towards the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]], with a [[Cook Partisan Voting Index|PVI]] of D+10,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cookpolitical.com/file/2013-04-49.pdf|title=Partisan Voting Index: Districts of the 113th Congress|publisher=[[Cook Political Report]]|access-date=April 19, 2015|archive-date=June 17, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170617193745/http://cookpolitical.com/file/2013-04-49.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> making it politically aligned with the rest of California overall. The current Representative is [[Salud Carbajal]].