Paul Royse

Paul Royse (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Oklahoma's 1st Congressional District. He lost in the Republican primary on June 18, 2024.

Elections

2024

Oklahoma's 1st Congressional District election, 2024 (June 18 Republican primary)

Oklahoma's 1st Congressional District election, 2024 (June 18 Democratic primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House Oklahoma District 1

Incumbent Kevin Hern defeated Dennis Baker and Mark Sanders in the general election for U.S. House Oklahoma District 1 on November 5, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Kevin Hern (R)	60.4	188,832
	Dennis Baker (D)	34.5	107,903
	Mark Sanders (Independent)	5.0	15,766

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 312,501
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Oklahoma District 1

Dennis Baker defeated Evelyn Rogers in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Oklahoma District 1 on June 18, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Dennis Baker	59.2	8,527
	Submit photo	Evelyn Rogers	40.8	5,871

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 14,398
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Sarah Gray (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Oklahoma District 1

Incumbent Kevin Hern defeated Paul Royse in the Republican primary for U.S. House Oklahoma District 1 on June 18, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Kevin Hern	87.0	30,244
	Paul Royse	13.0	4,504

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 34,748
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Endorsements

Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Royse in this election.

2022

General election

Special general election for U.S. Senate Oklahoma

Markwayne Mullin defeated Kendra Horn, Robert Murphy, and Ray Woods in the special general election for U.S. Senate Oklahoma on November 8, 2022.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Markwayne Mullin (R)	61.8	710,643
	Kendra Horn (D)	35.2	405,389
	Robert Murphy (L)	1.5	17,386
	Ray Woods (Independent)	1.5	17,063

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 1,150,481
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Republican primary runoff election

Special Republican primary runoff for U.S. Senate Oklahoma

Markwayne Mullin defeated T. W. Shannon in the special Republican primary runoff for U.S. Senate Oklahoma on August 23, 2022.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Markwayne Mullin	65.1	183,118
	T. W. Shannon	34.9	98,246

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 281,364
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Democratic primary election

The Democratic primary election was canceled. Kendra Horn advanced from the special Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Oklahoma.

Republican primary election

Special Republican primary for U.S. Senate Oklahoma

The following candidates ran in the special Republican primary for U.S. Senate Oklahoma on June 28, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Markwayne Mullin	43.6	156,087
✔		T. W. Shannon	17.5	62,746
		Nathan Dahm	11.9	42,673
		Luke Holland	11.3	40,353
		Scott Pruitt	5.0	18,052
		Randy Grellner	4.4	15,794
	Submit photo	Laura Moreno	1.8	6,597
		Jessica Garrison	1.7	6,114
		Alex Gray	0.9	3,063
	Submit photo	John Tompkins	0.7	2,332
		Adam Holley	0.5	1,873
	Submit photo	Michael Coibion	0.4	1,261
		Paul Royse	0.3	900

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 357,845
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Libertarian primary election

The Libertarian primary election was canceled. Robert Murphy advanced from the special Libertarian primary for U.S. Senate Oklahoma.

2020

General election

General election for Oklahoma House of Representatives District 78

Incumbent Meloyde Blancett defeated Paul Royse in the general election for Oklahoma House of Representatives District 78 on November 3, 2020.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Meloyde Blancett (D)	59.0	9,315
	Paul Royse (R)	41.0	6,461

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 15,776
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Democratic primary election

The Democratic primary election was canceled. Incumbent Meloyde Blancett advanced from the Democratic primary for Oklahoma House of Representatives District 78.

Republican primary election

The Republican primary election was canceled. Paul Royse advanced from the Republican primary for Oklahoma House of Representatives District 78.

2018

See also: Oklahoma House of Representatives elections, 2018

General election

General election for Oklahoma House of Representatives District 78

Incumbent Meloyde Blancett defeated Paul Royse and Eugene Bell in the general election for Oklahoma House of Representatives District 78 on November 6, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Meloyde Blancett (D)	59.5	7,580
		Paul Royse (R)	36.0	4,585
	Submit photo	Eugene Bell (L)	4.4	565

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 12,730
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Oklahoma House of Representatives District 78

Incumbent Meloyde Blancett advanced from the Democratic primary for Oklahoma House of Representatives District 78 on June 26, 2018.

		Candidate
✔		Meloyde Blancett

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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Oklahoma House of Representatives District 78

Paul Royse advanced from the Republican primary for Oklahoma House of Representatives District 78 on June 26, 2018.

		Candidate
✔		Paul Royse

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified.
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Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

Paul Royse did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.

Campaign website

Royse’s campaign website stated the following:

“

American's are in trouble! It's Time For A Change!

Kevin Hern plans to go against Trump and make drastic cuts to Social Security and Medicare. Kevin says America is 'broke' but Kevin finds billions for countries all around the world every year. Can you imagine working until you are almost 70? How can Kevin cut benefits for Americans while giving billions overseas? We must protect Social Security and Medicare. This is the main reason I am running for office. (Note: Both Kevin and Mullins received over a million dollars in PPP money from 'broke' America.)

A few other reasons to Vote for Royse
1. The American border is in crisis. A lot of talk but no action. I will not approve any spending bill unless it has money for a border wall even if the government shuts down. If you dont have a border, you dont have a country!
2. The national debt went up more in Kevin's term than in the history of America. Now with interest rates raising we have to pay more interest on the enormousness national debt.
3. Pastors have been arrested in America for having church while the shopping malls stayed open. America is not North Korea or China. I would have defended the pastor and the constitution had i been a congressman.
4. Kevin pledged he would fight for a 3 term limit in the House. Great! but Kevin is now running for a 4th term.
5. Kevin voted "NO" on a bill to help veterans exposed to burn pits and voted "YES" on FISA, a spy on American's bill, My dad was a veteran and i lived on a military base at times when i was a kid. If elected, I will always have our veterans back.

Vote for Paul Royse for Congress in District 1 on June 18th, I'm pro border wall, fix the national debt, pro freedom, a Veteran and Pastor's son, a Christian Conservative and MAGA Supporter! I will stand for are rights and will never back down or cave to the left!

Paul Royse is unequivocally unapologetically Pro-life. I will do everything i can to help the Pro-life movement and encourage President Trump to do the same.

UPDATE: Hern just voted "YES" on April 20th to send billions and billions of aid again! This time to Gaza and other places from 'broke' America.

I've lived in Tulsa most of my life, I know voters will always vote for the same career politicians but your vote wont hurt just Oklahoman's but all Americans. Hern is leading the charge and is chairman of the committee that wants to cut Social Security and Medicare. ^[1]

”

—Royse’s campaign website (2024)^[2]

2022

Paul Royse did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.

2020

Paul Royse did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.

Campaign finance summary

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Paul Royse campaign contribution history
Year	Office	Status	Contributions	Expenditures
2024*	U.S. House Oklahoma District 1	Lost primary	$0	N/A**
2022	U.S. Senate Oklahoma	Lost primary	$0	N/A**
2020	Oklahoma House of Representatives District 78	Lost general	$2,519	N/A**
2018	Oklahoma House of Representatives District 78	Lost general	$3,827	N/A**
Grand total			$6,346	N/A**
Sources: OpenSecrets, Federal Elections Commission *This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

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Footnotes

↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
↑ [XURLX Paul Royse for U.S. House 2024," accessed June 11, 2024]

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Oklahoma's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

James Lankford (R)

Markwayne Mullin (R)

Representatives

District 1

Kevin Hern (R)

District 2

Josh Brecheen (R)

District 3

Frank Lucas (R)

District 4

Tom Cole (R)

District 5

Stephanie Bice (R)

Republican Party (7)

[quotedisclaimer-1] Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.

[2] [XURLX Paul Royse for U.S. House 2024," accessed June 11, 2024]

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Paul Royse

Elections

2024

General election

General election for U.S. House Oklahoma District 1

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Oklahoma District 1

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Oklahoma District 1

Endorsements

2022

General election

Special general election for U.S. Senate Oklahoma

Republican primary runoff election

Special Republican primary runoff for U.S. Senate Oklahoma

Democratic primary election

Republican primary election

Special Republican primary for U.S. Senate Oklahoma

Libertarian primary election

2020

General election

General election for Oklahoma House of Representatives District 78

Democratic primary election

Republican primary election

2018

General election

General election for Oklahoma House of Representatives District 78

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Oklahoma House of Representatives District 78

Republican primary election

Republican primary for Oklahoma House of Representatives District 78

Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

Campaign website

2022

2020

Campaign finance summary

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