Ponca City, Oklahoma is located in Kay County and is home to approximately 25,000 residents. The city of Ponca is governed by a mayor-council form of government comprised of an elected mayor and seven council members. The current mayor of Ponca City is Homer Nicholson, who was elected in 2018. Mayor Nicholson serves alongside the council members: Pat McBride, Brad Johnson, Austin Smith, Chris Satterfield, James Gray, Jeannie Darnell, and Mike Phipps. Each year the citizens of Ponca City have the opportunity to vote for the local political candidates running for office during the municipal elections held in April. The election process allows for democracy within Ponca City and provides all citizens with a voice on important decisions that affect their lives.
The political climate in Zip 74604 (Ponca City, OK) is very 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 74604 (Ponca City, OK) is very conservative.
Ponca City, Oklahoma is very 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 74604 (Ponca City)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 185 contributions totaling $11,355 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $61 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 239 contributions totaling $38,134 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $160 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)