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Oklahoma judicial elections summary, 2014
| Oklahoma judicial elections, 2014 | |
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| Total candidates: | 205 |
| Primary candidates: | 19 |
| General election candidates: | 187 |
| Incumbency | |
| Incumbents: | 138 |
| Incumbent success rate: | 98% |
| Competition - general election | |
| Percent of candidates in contested races: | 37% |
| Percent uncontested: | 58% |
| Percent retention: | 5% |
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In 2014, incumbent trial court judges in Oklahoma had a 98% success rate in elections. Of the 187 candidates on the general election ballot, 108 ran unopposed. Seventy candidates faced contested races, resulting in three incumbent judges being defeated. The district court judges are elected through nonpartisan elections.
Appellate court judges in Oklahoma stand for re-election in retention elections. In 2014, three Oklahoma Supreme Court justices—John Reif, Joseph Watt, and Tom Colbert—were retained. Additionally, five judges from the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals and one from the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ran for retention and were all successfully retained.
For general election results, see: Oklahoma judicial elections, 2014.
For primary election results, see: Oklahoma judicial primary elections, 2014.
Interesting races
- In 2014, Oklahoma judges up for retention received an average approval rate of 60.9%, with all judges earning between 59% and 63% of the vote.
- The following were some closely contested races:
- District 7: Judge Roger Stuart (50.5%), Amy Palumbo (49.5%)
- District 14: Judge William C. Kellough (48%), Caroline Wall (52%)
- District 15: Judge Thomas H. Alford (51.3%), James Walters (48.7%)
- District 15: Kyle Waters (50.1%), Matt Orendorff (49.9%)
- Mark Barcus and Megan Simpson were two of the three incumbent judges defeated by challengers. Both had been appointed in 2012 by Republican Governor Mary Fallin. The third judge to lose was William C. Kellough, first elected to the court in 2006.
- In District 7, Judge Donald Deason defeated challenger Orenthel Denson, earning 77.7% of the vote to Denson’s 22.3%. Before the election, Deason challenged Denson’s candidacy due to the similarity of their names, but the state supreme court declined to hear the case, and the election board rejected his challenge.[1]
See also
- Oklahoma judicial elections, 2014
- Oklahoma elections
- Portal:Judicial elections
- Judicial selection in Oklahoma
- Oklahoma
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