Piedmont, Oklahoma is a small city in Canadian County located northwest of Oklahoma City. Politically, Piedmont leans toward Republican candidates and conservative local politics. The mayor of Piedmont is Jason Higgs, a former councilman who was elected in 2018 to serve as the city's 16th mayor. He leads a seven-member governing body composed of four council members elected from wards and three at-large representatives. The current council members are Shawn Bailey, Johnny Grubbs, Alan Smith and Amanda Zieber. Together with Mayor Higgs they work to ensure that local government works efficiently for the citizens of Piedmont. They strive to make sure the city is well taken care off with resources allocated properly and taxes are spent responsibly on infrastructure improvements, public safety initiatives, economic development projects, parks and recreation programs and other services beneficial to the community.
The political climate in Zip 73078 (Piedmont, OK) is very conservative.
Canadian County, OK is very conservative. In Canadian County, OK 27.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 70.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Canadian county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 70.3% to 27.0%.
Canadian county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 73078 (Piedmont, OK) is very conservative.
Piedmont, Oklahoma is very conservative.
Canadian County, Oklahoma is very conservative.
Oklahoma City Metro Area is somewhat 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.
Piedmont, 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 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 73078 (Piedmont)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 67 contributions totaling $2,179 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $33 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 137 contributions totaling $163,614 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,194 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)