Editing Tulsa County, Oklahoma (section)

==Government==
Tulsa County has nine elected county officials: three [[county commissioner]]s, a county [[sheriff]], a [[district attorney]], an [[Tax assessment|assessor]], a [[treasurer]], a [[county clerk]], and a county [[court clerk]].<ref name="Gov Ballotpedia">{{cite web |title=Government of Tulsa County, Oklahoma |url=https://ballotpedia.org/Government_of_Tulsa_County,_Oklahoma |website=ballotpedia.org |publisher=[[Ballotpedia]] |access-date=October 28, 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|+County officials<ref name="Gov Ballotpedia" />
!Position
!Official
!First Elected
!Next Re-election Year
!Party
|-
| County Commissioner District 1
| Stan Sallee
| 2018
| 2026
| {{party shading/Republican}}| Rep
|-
| County Commissioner District 2
| [[Lonnie Sims]]
| 2024
| 2028
| {{party shading/Republican}}| Rep
|-
| County Commissioner District 3
| Kelly Dunkerley
| 2023
| 2026
| {{party shading/Republican}}|Rep
|-
| District Attorney
| [[Steve Kunzweiler]]
| 2015
| 2026
| {{party shading/Republican}}| Rep
|-
| County Assessor
| [[John A. Wright]]
| 2018
| 2026
| {{party shading/Republican}}| Rep
|-
| County Clerk
| Michael Willis
| 2017
| 2028
| {{party shading/Republican}}| Rep
|-
| County Court Clerk
| Don Newberry
| 2017
| 2028
| {{party shading/Republican}}| Rep
|-
| County Sheriff
| Vic Regalado 
| 2017
| 2028
| {{party shading/Republican}}| Rep
|-
| County Treasurer
| John Fothergill
| 2020
| 2026
| {{party shading/Republican}}| Rep
|}

Oklahoma's 14th Judicial District, which includes Tulsa and [[Pawnee County, Oklahoma|Pawnee County]], has 14 elected district judges. 13 of the judges are elected from Tulsa County.<ref>{{cite web |title=20 O.S. 92.15a |url=https://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=68745 |website=oscn.net |publisher=[[Oklahoma State Courts Network]] |access-date=December 7, 2024}}</ref> The one elected Associate Judge for Tulsa County is Cliff Smith of Tulsa.<ref name="Tulsa County electeds" />
{| class="wikitable"
|+County Judges<ref name="Tulsa County electeds">{{cite web |title=Elected Officials of Tulsa County |url=https://www2.tulsacounty.org/media/od3h02je/electedofficials.pdf |website=tulsacounty.org |publisher=Tulsa County, Oklahoma |access-date=December 7, 2024}}</ref>
!Position
!Official
!First Elected
!Next Re-election Year
!Hometown
|-
| Office 1
| Caroline Wall
| 2010
| 2026
| [[Tulsa]]
|-
| Office 2
| Sharron Holmes
| 2014
| 2026
| Tulsa
|-
| Office 3
| Tracy Priddy
| 2018
| 2026
| Tulsa
|-
| Office 4
| Daman H. Cantrell
| 1998
| 2026
| [[Owasso, Oklahoma|Owasso]]
|-
| Office 5 (Pawnee County)
| Michelle L. Bodine-Keely
| 2020
| 2026
| [[Cleveland, Oklahoma|Cleveland]]
|-
| Office 6
| Kelly Greenough
| 2016
| 2026
| Tulsa
|-
| Office 7
| [[William LaFortune]]
| 2014
| 2026
| Tulsa
|-
| Office 8
| Doug Drummond
| 2014
| 2026
| Tulsa
|-
| Office 9
| Richard L. Hathcoat
| 2023<ref>{{cite web |authorlink1=Kevin Stitt |last1=Stitt |first1=Kevin |title=Order of Appointment |url=https://www.sos.ok.gov/documents/filelog/96657.pdf |website=sos.ok.gov |publisher=[[Governor of Oklahoma]] |access-date=December 7, 2024 |format=Primary source |date=October 9, 2023}}</ref>
| 2026
| Tulsa
|-
| Office 10
| Dawn Moody 
| 2018
| 2026
| Tulsa
|-
| Office 11
| Rebecca Nightingale
| 2002
| 2026
| Tulsa
|-
| Office 12
| Kevin Gray
| 2022
| 2026
| Tulsa
|-
| Office 13
| David Guten<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sinclair |first1=Savannah |title=Guten now unopposed in November race for Oklahoma's 14th judicial district |url=https://ktul.com/news/local/guten-now-unopposed-in-november-race-for-oklahomas-14th-judicial-district |access-date=December 7, 2024 |work=[[KTUL]] |date=August 29, 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
| 2022
| 2026
| Tulsa
|-
| Office 14
| Kurt G. Glassco 
| 2009
| 2026
| Tulsa
|}

===Politics===
Tulsa County is very conservative for an urban county; it has voted Republican in every presidential election since [[1940 United States presidential election|1940]].<ref>Sullivan, Robert David; [http://www.americamagazine.org/content/unconventional-wisdom/how-red-and-blue-map-evolved-over-past-century ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’]; ''America Magazine'' in ''The National Catholic Review''; June 29, 2016</ref> The county's Republican bent predates Oklahoma's swing toward the GOP.

[[George H. W. Bush]] in 1992 remains the only Republican since [[Alf Landon]] in 1936 to fail to obtain a majority in the county, and even then only because of [[Ross Perot]]’s strong third-party candidacy. In 2020, [[Joe Biden]] became the first Democrat since Lyndon Johnson in 1964 to win more than 40% of the vote in Tulsa County, and only the second to do so since 1948. It is one of only two counties in the state, alongside Oklahoma County, where Biden outperformed Southerner [[Jimmy Carter]]'s 1976 margin, when he narrowly lost the state.

In [[2022 Oklahoma gubernatorial election|2022]], Democratic gubernatorial candidate (and county resident) [[Joy Hofmeister]] narrowly carried the county, 49.1-48.9, against incumbent Republican [[Kevin Stitt]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=November 8, 2022 |title=Oklahoma Election Results |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/08/us/elections/results-oklahoma.html |access-date=August 23, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> This was the first time Tulsa County had backed a Democratic gubernatorial candidate since [[2006 Oklahoma gubernatorial election|2006]], and the first time in its history that it had ever backed a losing Democrat for governor.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Leip |first=Dave |title=Oklahoma Results for 2022 |url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/compare.php?year=2022&fips=40&f=0&off=5&elect=0&type=state |access-date=August 23, 2023 |website=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Elections}}</ref>

The city of Tulsa proper is a swing city. After voting for [[Donald Trump]] in [[2016 United States presidential election in Oklahoma|2016]] by four points, it swung to a six-point win for Joe Biden in 2020, and also backed [[Drew Edmondson]] for Governor in [[2018 Oklahoma gubernatorial election|2018]] by 13 points. The suburbs and rural communities, however, remain very strongly Republican.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Bloch|first1=Matthew|last2=Buchanan|first2=Larry|last3=Katz|first3=Josh|last4=Quealy|first4=Kevin|date=July 25, 2018|title=An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2016 Presidential Election|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/upshot/election-2016-voting-precinct-maps.html,%20https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/upshot/election-2016-voting-precinct-maps.html|access-date=August 17, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Precinct-by-precinct result maps: How Oklahomans voted on president, state questions, U.S. Senate|url=https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/precinct-by-precinct-result-maps-how-oklahomans-voted-on-president-state-questions-u-s-senate/article_52691fe0-a60a-5c81-920e-28ede7e05faf.html|access-date=August 17, 2021|website=Tulsa World|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=2018 November General Election|url=https://oklahoma.gov/elections/elections-results/election-results/2018-election-results/2018-november-general-election.html|access-date=August 17, 2021|website=Oklahoma Election Board|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=2020 November General Election|url=https://oklahoma.gov/elections/elections-results/election-results/2020-election-results/2020-november-general-election.html|access-date=August 17, 2021|website=Oklahoma Election Board|language=en}}</ref>

In February 2020, registered Republicans were reduced from a majority to a plurality in the county's voter registration.<ref>{{Cite web|date=July 31, 2020|title=July 2020 Month End Registration Statistics by County|url=https://oklahoma.gov/content/dam/ok/en/elections/voter-registration-statistics/2020-vr-statistics/vrstats-county-july-2020.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://oklahoma.gov/content/dam/ok/en/elections/voter-registration-statistics/2020-vr-statistics/vrstats-county-july-2020.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live|website=Oklahoma State Elections Board}}</ref>

{| class=wikitable
! colspan = 6 | Voter registration and party enrollment as of January 15, 2025<ref>{{cite news |url=https://oklahoma.gov/content/dam/ok/en/elections/voter-registration-statistics/2025-vr-statistics/vrstats-county-jan15-2025.pdf |title=Current Registration Statistics by County |work=ok.gov|date=January 15, 2025 |access-date=February 17, 2025}}</ref>
|-
! colspan = 2 | Party
! Number of Voters
! Percentage
|-
| {{party color cell|Republican Party (United States)}}
| [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| align = center | 195,133 
| align = center | 47,96%
|-
| {{party color cell|Democratic Party (United States)}}
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| align = center | 119,120
| align = center | 29,29%
|-
| {{party color cell|Libertarian Party (United States)}}
| [[Libertarian Party (United States)|Libertarian]]
| align = center | 4,207
| align = center | 1,03%
|-
| {{party color cell|Independent Party (United States)}}
| Unaffiliated 
| align = center | 88,390
| align = center | 21,72%
|-
! colspan = 2 | Total
! align = center | 406,850
! align = center | 100%
|}

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{{PresRow|2016|Republican|144,258|87,847|14,949|Oklahoma}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|145,062|82,744|0|Oklahoma}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|158,363|96,133|0|Oklahoma}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|163,452|90,220|0|Oklahoma}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|134,152|81,656|2,883|Oklahoma}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|111,243|76,924|19,189|Oklahoma}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|117,465|71,165|50,438|Oklahoma}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|127,512|69,044|1,207|Oklahoma}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|159,549|58,274|1,049|Oklahoma}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|124,643|53,438|10,067|Oklahoma}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|108,653|65,298|2,349|Oklahoma}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|125,278|32,779|3,069|Oklahoma}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|81,476|32,748|28,443|Oklahoma}}
{{PresRow|1964|Republican|76,770|61,484|0|Oklahoma}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|89,899|52,725|0|Oklahoma}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|83,219|43,805|0|Oklahoma}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|73,862|46,728|0|Oklahoma}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|42,892|38,548|0|Oklahoma}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|42,663|33,436|89|Oklahoma}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|40,342|33,098|135|Oklahoma}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|28,759|41,256|328|Oklahoma}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|25,541|35,330|0|Oklahoma}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|38,769|16,062|167|Oklahoma}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|19,537|14,377|1,265|Oklahoma}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|14,357|10,025|617|Oklahoma}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|3,857|4,497|886|Oklahoma}}
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|2,029|2,747|571|Oklahoma}}
{{PresFoot|1908|Democratic|2,150|2,292|228|Oklahoma}}