Carlisle, Oklahoma is a small town in Johnston County with a population of approximately 1,200 people. The town is governed by a mayor and four trustees who are all elected at-large for two year terms. The current mayor is Richard Alexander and the trustees are Jim Coker, Chuck Brown, Don Adams, and Emily Johnson. The town's government works to ensure the safety and wellbeing of its citizens and to provide services such as police protection, parks maintenance, library access, street repair, water treatment services; fire prevention and suppression; garbage collection; health services; and business regulation. The town council meets monthly to discuss new projects or plans for the town. Carlisle also has an active Chamber of Commerce which works to attract new businesses to the area. Overall, Carlisle’s local politics seek to create a safe community that encourages economic growth while also providing necessary public services for its citizens.
The political climate in Carlisle, OK is strongly conservative.
Sequoyah County, OK is very conservative. In Sequoyah County, OK 19.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 78.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Sequoyah county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 78.7% to 19.7%.
Sequoyah county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Carlisle, OK is strongly conservative.
Sequoyah County, Oklahoma is very conservative.
Fort Smith Metro Area is very conservative.
Oklahoma is very conservative.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index is based on recent voting in national elections, federal campaign contributions by local residents, and consumer personality profiles.
VoteWord™
Displaying 20 years of Presidential voting, visualized in one word.
Carlisle, Oklahoma: r R R R R R
How It Works:
Here at BestPlaces, we were looking at the voting patterns since the 2000 election and realized that we could express the results of each election as one letter. R if the Republican Party candidate won, D if the Democratic Party candidate won and I if the Independent Party candidate won. The six elections (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) would be expressed as six-letter word (R R D R R).
Then we went a little further and added the dimension of magnitude. If the difference of victory was greater than 10 percent, the letter is upper case, and lower case if the difference was less than 10 percent. This allows us to see interesting voting patterns at just a glance.
Here's the VoteWord for Iowa d r d d r. In the last six elections the state has been closely contested, voting narrowly for the Republican Party candidate in 2016 and 2020 after voting for the Democratic Party in 2008 and 2012. Virginia (r r d d d D) has voted for the Democratic Party in the last three elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in Carlisle, OK
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 38 contributions totaling $4,957 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $130 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 99 contributions totaling $67,184 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $679 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)