The city of Newcastle, Wyoming is a small town with a population of approximately 3,000 people. It is the county seat of Weston County and has been a thriving community since its establishment in 1890. Politically, the city is governed by a four-member elected City Council and mayor. Each member serves for two years and are voted on in municipal elections held every two years. The current mayor is Don Reynolds and the City Council members include Bill Gleason, Mike Barger, John Davenport, and David Hesser. The council meets once a month to discuss important issues facing the city such as infrastructure updates, housing development projects, budgeting matters, and utility services. In addition to the monthly meetings the City Council also holds public hearings where citizens can voice their concerns or share their opinions about ongoing issues in the city. All decisions made by the council must be approved by majority vote before they become law or policy for Newcastle.
The political climate in Zip 82701 (Newcastle, WY) is very conservative.
Weston County, WY is very conservative. In Weston County, WY 10.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 87.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Weston county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 87.7% to 10.2%.
Weston county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 82701 (Newcastle, WY) is very conservative.
Newcastle, Wyoming is very conservative.
Weston County, Wyoming is very conservative.
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Wyoming 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.
Newcastle, Wyoming: 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 82701 (Newcastle)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 4 contributions totaling $355 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $89 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 119 contributions totaling $40,462 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $340 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)