Ponca City, OK 74601 is a small city located in Kay County, which has a population of approximately 25,000 people. The city is governed by an elected board of commissioners that is responsible for setting policy and managing the day-to-day operations of Ponca City. Every two years, voters in the area are invited to cast their votes in the local election for mayor and three council members who serve four-year terms. Local issues that are important to Ponca City residents include economic development, public safety, education and infrastructure improvements. The current mayor is Homer Nicholson and the three council members are Matt Beaty, Barbara Parken and Tim Tillman. All three have been committed to making decisions that benefit the citizens of Ponca City.
The political climate in Zip 74601 (Ponca City, OK) is strongly conservative.
Kay County, OK is very conservative. In Kay County, OK 23.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 74.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Kay county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 74.4% to 23.4%.
Kay county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 74601 (Ponca City, OK) is strongly conservative.
Ponca City, Oklahoma is strongly conservative.
Kay County, Oklahoma is very conservative.
Ponca City 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.
Ponca City, 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 74601 (Ponca City)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 117 contributions totaling $10,182 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $87 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 178 contributions totaling $25,303 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $142 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)