CARTER COUNTY, Okla. -- Do you know if your neighbor is a Democrat, a Republican, or something else? A new study could help you figure that out. Robin Beal takes a closer look at who goes with which party.

During election years it seems that people cannot get enough of number crunching. How many delegates does a candidate need? How many people voted in the primaries? A report emerged over the weekend that really dissects voter registration in Oklahoma, breaking it all down by parties.

The significance of this particular report is that the latest batch of figures seems to indicate growing numbers of registered Republicans and independents statewide.

Interestingly, the number of democrats has dipped below 50% of the state's registered voters for the first time in history, so we wanted to know while that may be true when you look at registered voters statewide, what about in Carter County? The rolls indicate a virtually unchanged county wide voting base going back for the last five years. Out of about 24,000 registered voters, the vast majority—15,000 – are registered Democrats, just over 6,000 are Republicans, and only 2,200 are independents.

Helen McReynolds of the Carter County Election Board explains, "Our independents have lowered because they found out in July, independents do not get to vote on local issues like the sheriff's race, the county clerk's race, and after that election, a lot of the independents changed."

Another interesting note about this latest report is that statewide, out of most new voters, people registering for the first time, 53% chose to register as Democrats.