65720 Oldfield, MO is a small rural town located in southern Missouri. The town has a population of approximately 1,000 people and is governed by a mayor and five-member board of trustees. The current mayor is Ted Smith, who was elected in 2013 and will serve until 2021. All members of the board of trustees are elected on a nonpartisan basis. There is one polling station located in the town center where local residents can cast their votes for political candidates during elections. Local political candidates include those running for mayors as well as trustees, state and federal representatives, judges, and school boards. Elections are held every two years on the first Tuesday in November and typically have low voter turnouts due to the small population size. Nonetheless, voting is an important part of keeping up to date with local politics in 65720 Oldfield, MO as it allows residents to take part in making decisions about their community that affect them directly.
The political climate in Zip 65720 (Oldfield, MO) is very conservative.
Christian County, MO is very conservative. In Christian County, MO 23.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 74.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Christian county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 74.4% to 23.7%.
Christian county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 65720 (Oldfield, MO) is very conservative.
Oldfield, Missouri is very conservative.
Christian County, Missouri is very conservative.
Springfield Metro Area is very conservative.
Missouri is somewhat 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.
Oldfield, Missouri: 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 for the Democrat and I for the Independent. 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 zip 65720 (Oldfield)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 6 contributions totaling $950 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $158 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 0 contributions totaling $0 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $0 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)