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Woods County has 4,381 active voters according to a report from the County Election Board dated Dec. 31, 2023. The county has 581 inactive voters for a total of 4,962 registered voters. During the year the county had 28 new voters registered. Fourteen registrations were cancelled with seven moving out of jurisdiction and seven by death.

Voter registration transactions included one affiliation change, ten address changes and five name changes.

In active registrations, Republicans outnumber other affiliations by a large margin. There are 3,140 registered Republicans, 715 Democrats, 492 Independents and 34 Libertarians among active voters. Republicans comprise 71.7 percent of active voters with Democrats at 16.3 percent. Independents are 11.2 percent of active registered voters while Libertarians are less than one percent.

The Oklahoma Election Board reports as of Dec. 31, 2023, there were 2,299,289 registered voters in the state with 1,887,232 listed as active. During the year, 10,729 new voter registrations were received in the state.

At the end of December, Oklahoma had 1,029,038 active registered Republican voters or 54.5 percent. Democrats make up 27.5 percent of active voters in the state with 518,800 registered. With 322,728 voters, Independents are 17.1 percent of the total, and Libertarians are 0.88 percent with 16,666 active voters registered.

Election Dates

The next election date in the state is Tuesday, Feb. 13. Board of education races will be on the ballots; however, Alfalfa and Woods counties do not have any board of education races. City of Alva voters will be voting on a 25-year Oklahoma Natural Gas franchise on Feb. 13. The franchise is a state requirement, but it will not carry any financial cost to citizens.

The next election date is March 5 for the presidential preferential primary election. The deadline for voter registration to be eligible to vote in that election is Feb. 9 according to information from the state election board website.