Politics

Marin is part of California's 6th congressional district, held by ninth-term Democrat Lynn Woolsey.

In the state legislature, Marin is in the 6th Assembly district, held by second-term Democrat Jared Huffman, and the 3rd Senate district, held by first-term Democrat Mark Leno.

The county has become a stronghold of the Democratic Party in recent decades. Out of California counties, only San Francisco County and Alameda County voted more Democratic in the 2008 Presidential election, all three counties voted more heavily for Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama than Cook County, Ill., Obama's home county.

On Nov. 4, 2008, the citizens of Marin county voted strongly against Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment which eliminated the right of same-sex couples to marry, by a 75.1 percent to 24.9 percent margin. The official tally was 103,341 against and 34,324 in favor.[10] Only San Francisco County voted against the measure by a wider margin (75.2% against).

According to the California Secretary of State, as of March 20, 2009, Marin County has 150,679 registered voters, out of 181,918 eligible (82.8%). Of those, 82,549 (54.8%) are registered Democrats, 29,980 (19.9%) are registered Republicans, 6,384 (4.0%) are registered with other political parties, and 32,094 (21.3%) have declined to state a political party.Democrats hold wide voter-registration majorities in all political subdivisions in Marin County, except for the town of Belvedere, in which Democrats only hold a 46-vote (2.9%) registration advantage. Democrats' largest registration advantage in Marin is in the town of Fairfax, wherein there are only 426 Republicans (8.1%) out of 5,261 total voters compared to 3,413 Democrats (64.9%) and 1,092 voters who have declined to state a political party (19.7%) voters.