 | |
| Number of elections | 29 |
|---|---|
| Voted Democratic | 10 |
| Voted Republican | 19 |
| Voted other | 0 |
| Voted for winning candidate | 20 |
| Voted for losing candidate | 9 |
Since it first joined the United States in 1907,[1] Oklahoma has participated in 29 presidential elections. It was initially granted seven electoral votes,[2] gaining three following the 1910 census.[3] It was given an additional vote in the 1930 census[4] which it lost in the 1940 census.[4] It went down to eight votes in the 1950 census[5] before returning to its original seven following the 2000 census.[6]
In the 1960 election the state was won by Republican candidates Richard Nixon and Henry C. Lodge.[7] However, elector Henry D. Irwin decided to cast a faithless vote for Harry F. Byrd and Barry Goldwater. The state later passed a law that would invalidate any votes cast by and issue fines to faithless electors.[8]
While the state initially went back and forth between voting Democrat and Republican, more recently the state has been considered a safe red state. Republicans having won every single county since the 2004 presidential election, the state was Donald Trump's third largest margin of victory in 2016.[9] The last time a Democrat won the state was during Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 landslide victory.[10]
Republicans have won the election without winning the state only twice, William H. Taft in 1908 and Calvin Coolidge in 1924. Democrats have won without the state eight times, the most recent example being Joe Biden in 2020.
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- ^ Leip, David. "1908 Presidential General Election Results – Oklahoma". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved August 21, 2024.
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- ^ "Distribution of Electoral Votes". Maryland.gov. Archived from the original on September 22, 2021. Retrieved August 21, 2024.
- ^ Agrawal, Nina (December 8, 2016). "All the times in U.S. history that members of the electoral college voted their own way". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on May 24, 2024. Retrieved August 22, 2024.
- ^ Averill, Dave (June 7, 1992). "Tale of Oklahoma's Bolting Presidential Elector". Tulsa World. Archived from the original on August 22, 2024. Retrieved August 21, 2024.
- ^ "Oklahoma 2020 election results". CNN. November 24, 2020. Archived from the original on August 21, 2024. Retrieved August 23, 2024.
- ^ Levy, Micheal (August 9, 2024). "United States presidential election of 1964". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Archived from the original on August 5, 2024. Retrieved August 23, 2024.
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