Editing Oakland, California (section)

===Politics===
Oakland was a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] bastion from the 1860s to the 1950s, with positions expressed by the Republican-oriented ''[[Oakland Tribune]]'' newspaper. In the 1960s, the majority of voters began to favor liberal policies and the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QODLZe8XlDIC&pg=PA95 |title=Oakland Police Department |page=95 |first=Phil |last=McArdle |publisher=Arcadia |series=Images of America |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-7385-4726-8}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/bigdaddyjesseunr00boya_0 |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/bigdaddyjesseunr00boya_0/page/61 61] |title=Big Daddy: Jesse Unruh and the Art of Power Politics |first=Bill |last=Boyarsky |publisher=University of California Press |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-520-92334-8}}</ref> Oakland has the second highest percentage of registered Democrats of any of the incorporated cities in Alameda County, with Berkeley coming in first.

The last Republican presidential candidate to receive at least one-third of vote in Oakland was [[Richard Nixon]] in 1972. Since then, the Republican percentage of the vote has generally declined in each successive election.

According to the [[Secretary of State of California|California Secretary of State]], as of February 10, 2019, Oakland has 245,111 registered voters. Of those, 159,771 (65.2%) are registered [[California Democratic Party|Democrats]], 9,544 (3.9%) are registered [[California Republican Party|Republicans]], and 65,416 (26.7%) 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> Oakland is widely regarded as being one of the most liberal major cities in the nation. The [[Cook Partisan Voting Index]] of [[California's 12th congressional district|Congressional District 12]], which includes Oakland and Berkeley, is D+40, making it the most Democratic congressional district in California and the fourth most Democratic district in the US.<ref>{{cite web
 | url = http://cookpolitical.com/file/2013-04-49.pdf
 | title = Partisan Voting Index Districts of the 113th Congress
 | publisher = [[The Cook Political Report]]
 | access-date = November 30, 2014}}</ref>

On November 27, 2023, the City Council unanimously passed a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Israel's war on Hamas,<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 28, 2023 |title=California city calls for permanent cease-fire in Israel-Hamas war, urgent humanitarian aid to Gaza |url=https://apnews.com/article/oakland-israel-hamas-cease-fire-947cc31f56055c056768136100d09547 |access-date=May 3, 2024 |website=AP News |language=en}}</ref> after hearing more than 500 residents speak on the topic.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ramos |first=John |date=November 27, 2023 |title=Oakland City Council unanimously passes resolution calling for permanent cease-fire in Gaza - CBS San Francisco |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/oakland-city-council-resolution-calling-for-permanent-cease-fire-in-gaza-draws-demonstrations/ |access-date=May 3, 2024 |website=www.cbsnews.com |language=en-US}}</ref>