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Last updated: October 29, 2024
Thousands of general elections are taking place across the United States on November 5, 2024. Those elections include offices at the federal, state, and local levels. This is one of 50 pages in which Ballotpedia previews the elections happening in each state as part of the Daily Brew’s 50 states in 25 days series.
This page provides an overview of all elections happening in Oklahoma within our coverage scope on November 5, 2024. Those elections include offices for five U.S. Representatives, 101 state Representatives, 26 state Senators, six State Supreme Court Justices, and six Intermediate Appellate Court Justices. Additionally, there are two statewide ballot measures on the ballot in Oklahoma. On this page, you will also find information regarding:
- How to vote in Oklahoma
- The elected offices that Oklahoma voters can expect to see on their ballots
- The races in Oklahoma that Ballotpedia is covering as battlegrounds
- The ballot measures that voters in Oklahoma will decide on
- Ballotpedia's Sample Ballot Lookup Tool
- The partisan balance of Oklahoma's congressional delegation and state government
- Past presidential election results in Oklahoma
- The competitiveness of legislative elections in Oklahoma
- The candidates who are on the ballot in Oklahoma
Voting information
- See also: Voting in Oklahoma
What's on the ballot?
2024 elections
- See also: Oklahoma elections, 2024
Oklahoma voters will elect five U.S. Representatives.
There is one state executive office up for election: corporation commissioner.
All 101 seats in the state House and 24 of 48 seats in the state Senate, plus two districts up for special election, are on the ballot. There are 14 open seats in the House and eight in the Senate.
Three of the nine justices on the Oklahoma Supreme Court and three of the five justices on the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals are up for retention election. Oklahoma is one of two states with two courts of last resort. As of 2024, Texas is the only other state with this system.
Six seats on the Oklahoma Court of Appeals are up for retention election.
Municipal elections will be held in Tulsa (runoff) for mayor and city council and in Canadian County, Cleveland County, Oklahoma County, and Tulsa County for clerk, sheriff, county commission, and court clerk.
Oklahoma is one of 26 states where we are expanding our local election coverage beyond the nation's biggest cities, school districts, and state capitals. Including those mentioned above, Ballotpedia is covering 70 candidates in 33 races for offices such as local councils and other county-level positions.
Voters will decide on two statewide ballot measures.
Below is a list of Oklahoma elections covered by Ballotpedia in 2024. Click the links to learn more about each type:
Oklahoma elections, 2024 | ||
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Office | Elections? | More information |
U.S. Senate | — | — |
U.S. House | ✓ | Click here |
Congress special election | — | — |
Governor | — | — |
Other state executive | ✓ | Click here |
State Senate | ✓ | Click here |
State House | ✓ | Click here |
Special state legislative | ✓ | Click here |
State Supreme Court | ✓ | Click here |
Intermediate appellate courts | ✓ | Click here |
School boards | ✓ | Click here |
Municipal government | ✓ | Click here |
Recalls | ✓ | Click here |
Ballot measures | ✓ | Click here |
Local ballot measures | ✓ | Click here |
Legend: ✓ election(s) / — no elections
Subject to Ballotpedia's scope
Your ballot
- See also: Sample Ballot Lookup
Noteworthy elections
As of October 29, 2024, Ballotpedia has identified one election as a battleground race. Those are the races that we expect to have a meaningful effect on the balance of power in governments or to be particularly competitive or compelling.
- Oklahoma Supreme Court elections, 2024: Three of the nine justices on the Oklahoma Supreme Court and three of the five justices on the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals are up for retention election. Oklahoma is one of two states with two courts of last resort. As of 2024, Texas is the only other state with this system.
- The Center for Politics' Louis Jacobson wrote, "While Oklahoma has become a ruby red state in recent years, the three supreme court justices facing retention elections this year were all appointed by Democratic governors."[1]
- Bolts Magazine's Daniel Nichanian wrote supreme court races like this one "may potentially shift the outcome in high-stakes cases that are already in the legal pipeline."[2] Some of the decisions the three justices ruled on include:
- joining the 5-4 majority to strike down the state's ban on abortions in cases where the mother's life is threatened.[3]
- joining the 6-2 majority[4] against a religious charter school receiving public funds.[5]
- joining the 9-0 majority in favor of the legislature over Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) on the governor's veto power on tribal matters.[6]
- Yvonne Kauger and Noma D. Gurich joined the 8-1 majority against reparations for survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre and James Edmondson partially dissented.[7]
Ballot measures
- See also: Oklahoma 2024 ballot measures
There are two statewide ballot measures on the ballot in Oklahoma.
Type | Title | Description | Result | Yes Votes | No Votes |
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State Question 833 | Allow municipalities to create public infrastructure districts when all property owners within the proposed district sign a petition and give public infrastructure districts the authority to issue bonds for public improvements if approved by voters within the district |
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559,982 (38%) |
898,526 (62%) |
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State Question 834 | Prohibit the state and local governments from allowing noncitizens to vote |
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1,207,520 (81%) |
288,267 (19%) |
One hundred and thirty-nine statewide ballot measures were on the ballot in Oklahoma from 1985 to 2020. Voters approved 105 measures and defeated 34.
State analysis
Partisan balance
Republicans represent all five districts in Oklahoma's U.S. House delegation. In the U.S. House, Republicans have a 220-212 majority with three vacancies.
Republicans have a 40-8 majority in the state Senate and an 81-20 majority in the state House.
Because the governor is a Republican, Oklahoma is one of 23 states with a Republican trifecta. It has held this status since 2011, when a Republican governor took office. Oklahoma's attorney general and secretary of state are also Republicans. This makes Oklahoma one of 25 states with a Republican triplex.
Past presidential election results in Oklahoma
- See also: Presidential election in Oklahoma, 2024
How a state's counties vote in a presidential election and the size of those counties can provide additional insights into election outcomes at other levels of government including statewide and congressional races. Below, four categories are used to describe each county's voting pattern over the 2012, 2016, and 2020 presidential elections: Solid, Trending, Battleground, and New. Click [show] on the table below for examples:
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Democratic | |||||||
Status | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | ||||
Solid Democratic | D | D | D | ||||
Trending Democratic | R | D | D | ||||
Battleground Democratic | D | R | D | ||||
New Democratic | R | R | D | ||||
Republican | |||||||
Status | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | ||||
Solid Republican | R | R | R | ||||
Trending Republican | D | R | R | ||||
Battleground Republican | R | D | R | ||||
New Republican | D | D | R |
Following the 2020 presidential election, 100.0% of Oklahomans lived in one of the state's 77 Solid Republican counties, which voted for the Republican presidential candidate in every election from 2012 to 2020. Overall, Oklahoma was Solid Republican, having voted for Mitt Romney (R) in 2012, Donald Trump (R) in 2016, and Donald Trump (R) in 2020. Use the table below to view the total number of each type of county in Oklahoma following the 2020 election as well as the overall percentage of the state population located in each county type.
Oklahoma county-level statistics, 2020 | |||||||
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Solid Republican | 77 | 100.0% | |||||
Total voted Democratic | 0 | 0.0% | |||||
Total voted Republican | 77 | 100.0% |
State legislative competitiveness
According to Ballotpedia's annual state legislative competitiveness report, Oklahoma had a Competitiveness Index of 24.3, ranking it 35th of the 44 states that held elections.
- 22 of the 125 seats up for election were open (18%).
- 29 of the 103 incumbents who ran for re-election faced contested primaries (28%).
- 34 of the 125 seats up for election were contested by both major parties (27%).
2010-2024
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State Legislative Competitiveness Index in Oklahoma, 2010-2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Open seats | Incs. in contested primaries | Major party competition | Competitiveness Index | Rank | |||||||||||||||||||
2010 | 17.6% | 11.7% | 43.2% | 24.2 | 40 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
2012 | 18.4% | 18.6% | 35.2% | 24.1 | 40 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
2014 | 24.0% | 13.7% | 36.8% | 24.8 | 31 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
2016 | 32.8% | 33.3% | 69.6% | 45.2 | 6 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
2018 | 34.4% | 45.1% | 72.8% | 50.8 | 3 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
2020 | 8.8% | 28.9% | 38.4% | 25.4 | 38 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
2022 | 16.0% | 24.8% | 28.8% | 23.2 | 42 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
2024 | 17.6% | 28.2% | 27.2% | 24.3 | 35 / 44 |
In 2024
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State Legislative Competitiveness Index in Oklahoma, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Chamber | Open seats | Incs. in contested primaries | Major party competition | Competitiveness Index | ||||||||||||||||||||
House | 13.9% | 24.1% | 24.8% | 20.9 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Senate | 33.3% | 50.0% | 37.5% | 40.3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Total | 17.6% | 28.2% | 27.2% | 24.3 |
List of candidates
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ "Center for Politics, The State Supreme Court Skirmishes," accessed October 15, 2024
- ↑ Bolts, "Your State-by-State Guide to the 2024 Supreme Court Elections," accessed April 29, 2024
- ↑ Associated Press, "Oklahoma Supreme Court keeps anti-abortion laws on hold while challenge is pending," accessed November 14, 2023
- ↑ Chief Justice M. John Kane IV recused himself from this case.
- ↑ EdWeek, "Religious Charter School Is Unconstitutional, Oklahoma Supreme Court Rules," June 25, 2024
- ↑ KFOR, "‘Divisive rhetoric’: OK Supreme Court rules against Gov. Stitt in tribal compact litigation," April 3, 2024
- ↑ State Court Report, "Oklahoma Supreme Court Rejects Reparations for Tulsa Race Massacre," June 21, 2024