Oklahoma voted Republican for another election cycle and was one of two states where every county turned red in the presidential election.
Kirt is asking the Legislature to end an option that allows voters to simply check a box to select all candidates of a specific political affiliation
Oklahomans weighed in on the US president, decided the fate of three state Supreme Court justices and voted to approve or reject two state questions.
According to unofficial election results, Oklahomans cast 1,564,573 ballots for president this year. That's nearly 4,000 more votes than were cast in the previous presidential election. Registration also grew by 183,098 since 2020, reaching almost 2.5 million Oklahomans who were eligible to vote.
Just a little under 600 immigrants, both legal and illegal, serving sentences for crimes in Oklahoma prisons will likely be a part of the first rounds of President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans.
On Thursday, State Superintendent Ryan Walters sent a memo to Oklahoma parents and school leaders highlighting policy priorities after Tuesday’s election results.
Former President Trump easily won Oklahoma on Tuesday, The Hill/Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ) projects. The victory nets the former president seven more Electoral College votes. Trump won the state in 2020 with nearly double the votes of President Biden — roughly 65 percent to 32 percent.
Republican Rep. Stephanie Bice won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Oklahoma on Tuesday. She defeated Democrat Madison Horn, a cybersecurity expert from Oklahoma City. Bice, a former state senator from Edmond,
The solicitation followed Walters’ mandate that a Bible be placed in every Oklahoma public school classroom and that all schools teach from the Bible.
Two of the three Oklahoma Supreme Court justices on the ballot during Tuesday's election will retain their seats in what turned out to be one of the closest races in the state.
Multiple Oklahoma judges face retention votes today. But efforts to unseat three Oklahoma Supreme Court justices have garnered the most attention.