California Poll Results
Courage California conducts statewide polling and focus groups to better understand California voters’ positions on key issues and identify key pathways to engagement and organizing. Courage has conducted polling and focus groups since 2020, which informs the development of key data insights and research-based voter engagement strategies and messaging with our partners.
Our polling and focus groups of young and BIPOC voters in California confirm a gap between a desire to be civically engaged and a lack of access to the information and resources they need to build the confidence they need in order to take action.
CALIFORNIA POLL RESULTS ON CLIMATE CHANGE
July 2023: Courage California Institute partnered with Data for Social Good Foundation, Communities for a New California Education Fund, California Environmental Voters Education Fund, Inland Empire United Education Fund, and Voices in Solidarity Against Oil in Neighborhoods, to conduct polls of over 1,000 registered voters across the state to learn how Californians view the causes and effects of climate change.
Poll oversampled from the demographic communities that have seen higher rates of growth in the last decade, including voters of color.
POLL RESULTS FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA’S KEY CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS
October 2022: Courage California partnered with Data for Social Good, Communities for a New California, Inland Empire United, and OC Action to conduct polls of over 3,400 registered voters in six key battleground congressional districts: 13, 21, 22, 27, 41, and 45. Findings from the Congressional Districts located in Southern California, including CD27 (Los Angeles County), CD41 (Riverside County), and CD45 (Los Angeles and Orange Counties).
CALIFORNIA POLL RESULTS FROM CENTRAL VALLEY’S KEY CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS
October 2022: Courage California partnered with Data for Social Good, Communities for a New California, Inland Empire United, and OC Action to conduct polls of over 3,400 registered voters in six key battleground congressional districts: 13, 21, 22, 27, 41, and 45. Findings from the Congressional Districts located in California’s Central Valley, including CD13 (Kern and Kings Counties), CD21 (Fresno and Tulare Counties), and CD22 (Tulare and Kern Counties).
YOUTH POLL RESULTS FROM CALIFORNIA’S KEY CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS
October 2022: Courage California partnered with Data for Social Good, Communities for a New California, Inland Empire United, and OC Action to conduct polls of over 2,700 registered voters in six key battleground congressional districts: 13, 21, 22, 27, 41, and 45. Ten percent of poll respondents (274) were registered voters between 18-29 years old.
CENTRAL VALLEY CONGRESSIONAL RACES PROVIDE RARE OPPORTUNITY TO FLIP HISTORICALLY RED DISTRICTS
May 2022: The new congressional district 21 includes parts of Fresno and Tulare Counties, and a mix of the current congressional districts 16 (44%), 21 (15%), 22 (41%), and 23 (1%). Representative Jim Costa is running as the incumbent in the new district.
The new congressional district 22 includes parts of Kern, Kings, and Tulare Counties, and a mix of the current congressional districts 21 (50%), 22 (10%), and 23 (40%). Representative David Valadao is running as the incumbent in the new district.
2021 STATEWIDE YOUTH POLL RESULTS: THE GENERATION THAT WILL DECIDE THE FUTURE OF CALIFORNIA
August 2021: According to the poll, today’s youth voters are employed full-time (40%) or students (24%), living paycheck to paycheck (37%) or close to (21%), the majority (58%) of them have moved home to live with their parents/family to save money, and over half (56%) have not voted before.