Carmen, OK is a small town located in the southwestern corner of Oklahoma. Its population is estimated to be about 800 people, and the majority of the town’s residents live in rural areas. Despite its small size, Carmen has an active local political landscape. Although they don’t have their own mayor or city council, the residents of Carmen are still able to exercise their right to vote in state and national elections. Every few years, when new candidates run for office, many citizens of Carmen get involved by either donating money or volunteering their time to help drive support for the candidate they believe would do the most good for their community. With every election season comes excitement and anticipation as citizens wait to see who will be headed into office and what kind of changes they will bring with them.
The political climate in Carmen, OK is strongly conservative.
Alfalfa County, OK is very conservative. In Alfalfa County, OK 10.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 87.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Alfalfa county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 87.4% to 10.3%.
Alfalfa county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Carmen, OK is strongly conservative.
Alfalfa County, Oklahoma 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.
Carmen, 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 Carmen, OK
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 0 contributions totaling $0 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $0 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 40 contributions totaling $1,185 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $30 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)