Glencoe, OK is a small town located in Payne County and is part of the Stillwater Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town is known for its tight-knit community and friendly people. Though Glencoe may be a small town, it still has an active political scene that affects the people who live there. Local elections are held annually in order to elect representatives to City Council positions who will make decisions on issues such as zoning, public works projects, and more. Additionally, the people of Glencoe are involved in state and national politics by voting in state and federal elections each year. With so many important decisions being made on a local, state, and national level, it's clear that politics play an important role in Glencoe's community.
The political climate in Glencoe, OK is strongly conservative.
Payne County, OK is moderately conservative. In Payne County, OK 36.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 60.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Payne county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 60.1% to 36.8%.
Payne county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Glencoe, OK is strongly conservative.
Payne County, Oklahoma is moderately conservative.
Stillwater Metro Area is moderately 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.
Glencoe, 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 Glencoe, OK
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 88 contributions totaling $1,993 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $23 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 9 contributions totaling $1,120 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $124 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)