Editing Berkeley, California (section)

==Politics==
[[File:Old City Hall (Berkeley, CA) (cropped).JPG|thumb|left|The historic Old City Hall.]]
Berkeley has been a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] stronghold in presidential elections since 1960, becoming one of the most Democratic cities in the country. The last [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] presidential candidate to receive at least one-quarter of the vote in Berkeley was [[Richard Nixon]] in 1968. Consistent with Berkeley's reputation as a strongly [[Modern liberalism in the United States|liberal]] and/or [[Progressivism in the United States|progressive]] city, in the 2016 presidential election more votes were won by [[Green Party of the United States|Green Party]] presidential candidate [[Jill Stein]] than by Republican candidate [[Donald Trump]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2016-11-25/article/45173|title=How Berkeley Voted: Clinton 90.4%; Trump 3.2%. Category: Page One from The Berkeley Daily Planet|website=Berkeleydailyplanet.com|access-date=October 14, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191026212938/http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2016-11-25/article/45173|archive-date=October 26, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> In the 2020 Presidential election, Joe Biden received 93.8% of the vote while Donald Trump received 4.0% of the vote.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2020-general/ssov/complete-ssov.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2020-general/ssov/complete-ssov.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live|title=November 3, 2020, General Election : Supplement to the Statement of Vote|website=Elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov|access-date=February 21, 2022}}</ref>

[[File:Berkeley Historic Civic Center District-3 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Berkeley Civic Center.]]

According to the [[Secretary of State of California|California Secretary of State]], as of August 30, 2021, Berkeley has 75,390 registered voters. Of those, 56,740 (75.26%) are registered [[California Democratic Party|Democrats]], 1,910 (2.53%) are registered [[California Republican Party|Republicans]], 14,106 (18.71%) have [[Decline to State|declined to state]] a political party affiliation, and 2,634 (3.49%) are registered with a third party.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ror/15day-recall-2021/politicalsub.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ror/15day-recall-2021/politicalsub.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live|title=Report of Registration as of August 30, 2021 : Registration by Political Subdivision by County|website=Elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov|access-date=February 21, 2022}}</ref>

Berkeley became the first city in the United States to pass a [[Sanctuary city|sanctuary resolution]] on November 8, 1971.<ref>[http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/berkeley-the-original-sanctuary-city/Content?oid=5306164"Berkeley Is The Original Sanctuary City"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190904084728/https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/berkeley-the-original-sanctuary-city/Content?oid=5306164 |date=September 4, 2019 }} ''East Bay Express'', February 14, 2017.</ref>