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Bakersfield
Mayor Karen Goh · Republican · in office since Jan. 3, 2017
Karen Goh
Mayor of Bakersfield, CA · Republican · since Jan. 3, 2017
City No.
#47
by population
| Government form | Council-manager |
| Performance scoring | In development |
| Population | 422,165 |
Bakersfield uses a council-manager government, so day-to-day administration runs through an unelected city manager. The mayor's performance will be scored as shared, and labeled that way.
City outcome data (unemployment, crime, cost of living and more) is in the verification pipeline. We publish numbers only after they clear it. Methodology
Bakersfield sits in CA, whose governor Gavin Newsom holds a scored statewide record (No. 6 of 29). State outcomes are not the mayor’s grade — a city is not a state — but they’re the nearest verified context today.