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2020 Oklahoma Senate Election
The 2020 Oklahoma Senate election was held as part of the biennial elections in the United States. Oklahoma voters elected state senators in 24 of the state's 48 Senate districts. State senators serve four-year terms in the Oklahoma Senate. Retirements Two incumbents did not run for re-election in 2020. Those incumbents are: Republicans #District 5: Joseph Silk: Retiring #District 35: Gary Stanislawski: Retiring Incumbents defeated In primary elections Republicans Four Republicans lost renomination. #District 3: Wayne Shaw lost renomination to Blake Stephens. #District 7: Larry Boggs lost renomination to Warren Hamilton. #District 17: Ron Sharp lost renomination to Shane Jett. #District 43: Paul Scott lost renomination to Jessica Garvin. In the general election Democrats #District 37: Allison Ikley-Freeman lost to Cody Rogers. Predictions Results summary Close races Summary of results by State Senate District Detailed results by State Senate District District ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Oklahoma Senate Election
The 2022 Oklahoma Senate general election were held on November 8, 2022. The primary elections for the Republican, Democratic, and Libertarian parties' nominations took place on June 28, 2022. Runoff primary elections, if no candidate received 50% in the June 28 vote, took place on August 23. All candidates had to file between the days of April 13–15, 2022. Oklahoma voters elected state senators in 24 of the state's 48 Senate districts. State senators served four-year terms in the Oklahoma Senate. The 2022 election cycle was the first election following redistricting. Redistricting in Oklahoma was postponed to a special legislative session, because of the 2020 United States census data's release being delayed. New state senate districts were signed into law based on data from the 2020 United States census on November 22, 2021. Results summary The 2022 election results were compared below to the November 2020 election. The results summary below does not include blank and over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allison Ikley-Freeman
Allison Ikley-Freeman is an American politician who served as a member of the Oklahoma Senate from 2018 to 2021. She was elected to the Senate in a special election on November 14, 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she represented the 37th district. Background Ikley-Freeman earned a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's degree in clinical mental health. Prior to her election to the Oklahoma Senate, she worked as a mental health counsellor. '' Tulsa World
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Rob Standridge
Rob Standridge is an American business owner and politician currently representing District 15 in the Oklahoma Senate since his election in 2012. Early life He graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in pharmacy. In 1995, he purchased a small pharmacy in Blanchard, Oklahoma and expanded the pharmacy into an interactive online pharmacy. In 2005, it was transformed into a pharmacy that specialized in juveniles and the mentally disabled. Political career For his 2012 campaign, Standridge won the runoff for the Republican primary against Jack Beller before facing Democrat Claudia Griffith. He received 18,789 votes, more than 60 percent of the vote, on November 6, 2012. Standridge was sworn in November 14, 2012. Standridge won reelection in 2016 against independent Shawn P. Sheehan and again in 2020 against Democrat Alex Scott. On February 1, 2021, Standridge introduced Senate Bill 658, which would ban COVID-19 vaccine mandates in schools and was ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg McCortney
Greg McCortney (born May 30, 1974) is an American politician who has served in the Oklahoma Senate from the 13th district since 2016. In October 2021, McCortney was promoted to Majority Leader of the Oklahoma Senate because former Majority Leader Kim David Kim David is an American politician and businesswoman who has served as a member of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission since 2023. She previously served in the Oklahoma Senate representing the 18th district from 2010 to 2022 and as the Oklahoma ... was term limited from the Senate in 2022 and retiring from the position. Oklahoma State Senate Committee membershipsAppropriations Subcommittee on Health & Human Services * Business, Commerce & Tourism * Health and Human Services – Vice Chair * Rules – Chair * Transportation Controversies McCortney accepted money from the Oklahoma Gamefowl Commission, a pro-cockfighting political action committee. References 1974 births 21st-century American politician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Matthews (politician)
Kevin Matthews (born March 2, 1960) is an American politician who has served in the Oklahoma Senate from the 11th district since 2015. He previously served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives from the 73rd district from 2012 to 2015. Early life, education, and career Kevin Matthews was born in Tulsa where he graduated from Booker T. Washington High School. He attended Central State University between 1978 and 1981. He later earned a degree in fire protection technology while working for the Tulsa Fire Department. He worked for 25 years for the department, retiring as the Administrative Fire Chief of the department. He was the first African American Administrative Fire Chief for the Tulsa Fire Department. Oklahoma House of Representatives Mathews was elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives The Oklahoma House of Representatives is the lower house of the legislature of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Its members introduce and vote on bills and resolutions, provide leg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dewayne Pemberton
Dewayne Pemberton (born August 16, 1956) is a Republican Republican can refer to: Political ideology * An advocate of a republic, a type of government that is not a monarchy or dictatorship, and is usually associated with the rule of law. ** Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics or agains ... member of the Oklahoma State Senate, representing the 9th district. He was initially elected in November 2016. He is a retired coach, teacher and education administrator. References Living people Republican Party Oklahoma state senators Politicians from Muskogee, Oklahoma 1956 births 21st-century American politicians {{Oklahoma-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Burns (American Politician)
George Burns is an American politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. A member of the Republican Party, he currently serves in the Oklahoma Senate as the elected member from the 5th District which encompasses parts of Atoka, Choctaw, LeFlore, McCurtain, and Pushmataha Counties. He was first elected in the 2020 Oklahoma Senate election after winning the Republican primary on June 30, 2020, and going on to win the general election on November 3, 2020. His current term expires in 2025. Early life and career Burns grew up in the Pollard community near Haworth, Oklahoma. He graduated from Haworth High School and Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology. He worked as an electrician and eventually as a manager for large scale mechanical construction projects. He later served on the board of directors for both the Choctaw Electric Cooperative and the Western Farmers Electric Cooperate until his election to the Oklahoma Senate. Burns currently is a council member for Idab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micheal Bergstrom
Micheal Ray Bergstrom (born September 30, 1957) is a Republican member of the Oklahoma State Senate, representing the 1st district. He was initially elected in November 2016. Bergstrom sponsored legislation to prohibit nonbinary gender markers on birth certificates. Bergstrom argued, "It’s not a complicated issue — biologically, you’re either a male or female. There should be no other option to choose from on a birth certificate." According to the American Medical Association, "empirical evidence has demonstrated that trans and nonbinary gender identities are normal variations of human identity and expression." It was signed into law by Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt John Kevin Stitt (born December 28, 1972) is an American businessman and politician serving as the 28th governor of Oklahoma. A member of the Republican Party, he began his first term as governor in January 2019 and was reelected to a second t ... in 2022. He also authored another bill Stitt signed into la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oklahoma Secretary Of State
The Secretary of State of the State of Oklahoma is the chief clerical officer of Oklahoma and a member of the Oklahoma Governor's Cabinet. The Secretary of State is the only appointed constitutional member of the executive branch of the Oklahoma state government. The office of Secretary of State was elective from statehood until 1975 when the Constitution was amended and it became an appointive office, running concurrent with the Governor effective in 1979. Democrat John Rogers served the longest in office, having been elected three times to serve. He only served eight and one-half years, however, when he resigned just six months after taking office for the third time for a four-year term. The shortest term of any Secretary of State was just nine days, served by H.G. Oliver in 1915. He was appointed to fill the job after the resignation of B.F. Harrison. He left office when newly elected S.L. Lyon took office on January 15, 1915. Although she was named as "interim" by Governor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Libertarian Party (United States)
The Libertarian Party (LP) is a Political parties in the United States, political party in the United States that promotes civil liberties, non-interventionism, ''laissez-faire'' capitalism, and Limited government, limiting the size and scope of government. The party was conceived in August 1971 at meetings in the home of David Nolan (libertarian), David F. Nolan in Westminster, Colorado, and was officially formed on December 11, 1971, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The organizers of the party drew inspiration from the works and ideas of the prominent Austrian school economist, Murray Rothbard. The founding of the party was prompted in part due to concerns about the Presidency of Richard Nixon, Nixon administration, the Vietnam War, Conscription in the United States#Vietnam War, conscription, and the introduction of fiat money. The party generally promotes a Classical liberalism, classical liberal platform, in contrast to the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oklahoma Democratic Party
The Oklahoma Democratic Party is an Oklahoma political party affiliated with the Democratic Party. Along with the Oklahoma Republican Party, it is one of the two major parties in Oklahoma politics. The party dominated local politics in Oklahoma almost since the days of early statehood in 1907 to 1994. In national politics, the party became a dominant force beginning with the presidential election of 1932 and the Franklin D. Roosevelt political re-alignment. From 1932 to 1994, the majority of members of Congress from Oklahoma have been Democrats, and of the 27 men and women who have been elected to the office of Governor of Oklahoma, 22 have been Democrats. However, the party has fared poorly since 1994; Democrats lost five out of six congressional races that year. Since then, they have won only a handful of seats, which they no longer hold. In response, the traditionally disorganized Oklahoma Democrats have taken steps to create a more organized state party, hiring a professio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oklahoma Republican Party
The Oklahoma Republican Party is the Oklahoma state affiliate of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party (GOP). Along with the Oklahoma Democratic Party, it is one of the two major parties in the state. It is currently the dominant party in the state, controlling all five of Oklahoma's United States House of Representatives, U.S. House seats, both United States Senate, U.S. Senate seats, the Governor of Oklahoma, governorship, and has supermajorities in both houses of the Oklahoma Legislature, state legislature. Current structure and composition The Oklahoma Republican Party headquarters is located on North Lincoln Boulevard in Oklahoma City.Oklahoma Republican Party (accessed May 11, 2013). Additionally, the state party has a Tulsa, Oklahoma, Tulsa office on East 51st Street. They host th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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