Shawnee, OK 74804 is a city located in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma. It has a population of roughly 33,000 people and is the county seat of Pottawatomie County. This city is represented by elected officials at both local and state levels. At the local level, Shawnee is served by several city council members who make up the Shawnee City Council. These representatives represent the interests and concerns of the citizens in their respective districts throughout the city. At the state level, Shawnee is home to Representative John Pfeiffer Jr., who has been serving Shawnee since 2012 in Oklahoma's House of Representatives. Additionally, Senator Zack Taylor represents this district in the Oklahoma Senate. Together, these elected officials work to ensure that Shawnee remains an economically prosperous and safe place for citizens to live, work and play.
The political climate in Zip 74804 (Shawnee, OK) is strongly conservative.
Pottawatomie County, OK is very conservative. In Pottawatomie County, OK 25.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 71.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Pottawatomie county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 71.8% to 25.8%.
Pottawatomie county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 74804 (Shawnee, OK) is strongly conservative.
Shawnee, Oklahoma is strongly conservative.
Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma is very conservative.
Shawnee 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.
Shawnee, 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 74804 (Shawnee)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 171 contributions totaling $15,963 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $93 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 219 contributions totaling $79,404 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $363 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)