page_title: Charlotte County, Florida
section_title: Government and politics
hierarchical_section_title: Charlotte County, Florida / Government and politics
caption_attribution_description: English: Charlotte County Jail front entrance
context_page_description: Charlotte County is a U.S. county located in the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2010 census, the population was 159,978. Its county seat is Punta Gorda.
  Charlotte County comprises the Punta Gorda, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the North Port-Sarasota, FL Combined Statistical Area.
context_section_description: The county is governed by a five-person Commission, all of them elected to represent districts within the county for a four-year term. The elections are partisan according to political party affiliation and primaries are held months earlier in the event there are numerous candidates. All registered voters in the county are allowed to vote for a candidate Commissioner in each the five districts, not just the voters living in a particular district.
  The five current Commissioners for Charlotte County, Florida and terms of office expirations:
  Ken Doherty (R), District 1, November 3, 2020
  Christopher Constance (R), District 2, November 8, 2022
  Bill Truex (R) District 3, November 3, 2020
  Stephen R. Deutsch (R) District 4, November 8, 2022
  Joe Tiseo (R) District 5, November 3, 2020
  Charlotte County, as is typical for the southwestern Florida coast, became and remained a solidly Republican county in the years following the Second World War. No Democrat has won the county since Lyndon Johnson did so during his 1964 landslide, with only Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996 not being outvoted by an absolute majority due to the appeal of Ross Perot. Charlotte resisted George Wallace in the 1968 election to still return an absolute Republican majority, unlike several neighboring counties.
  Presidential elections results
caption: Charlotte County Jail front entrance
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