Recently, The Forum obtained access to California voter registration data to determine the political party affiliations of professors across the Claremont Colleges. The data encompass counties within a 50-mile radius of the Claremont Colleges—Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Orange, and Riverside. The data were cross referenced with faculty names on the Pomona, Scripps, Claremont McKenna (CMC), Harvey Mudd, and Pitzer college webpages. Names without matching voter registrations or with multiple voter registrations were excluded from the analysis. The analysis examined the remaining 395 non-duplicate faculty voter registrations, which constitute 41% of all Claremont Colleges faculty.
|
College |
Democrat |
No Party |
Republican |
Third Party |
|
Pomona |
92 |
24 |
6 |
5 |
|
Scripps |
54 |
8 |
3 |
1 |
|
CMC |
68 |
34 |
8 |
3 |
|
Harvey Mudd |
28 |
9 |
1 |
0 |
|
Pitzer |
44 |
5 |
1 |
1 |
Pitzer had the highest Democrat-to-Republican ratio of 44:1, followed by Harvey Mudd at 28:1, Scripps at 18:1, Pomona at 15.3:1, and CMC at 8.5:1.