2010 Oklahoma gubernatorial election

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2010 Oklahoma gubernatorial election
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Nominee Mary Fallin Jari Askins
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote625,506409,261
Percentage60.4%39.6%
2010 Oklahoma gubernatorial election results map by county.svg
County results
Fallin:     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%     80–90%
Askins:     50–60%
Governor before election

Brad Henry
Democratic

Elected Governor

Mary Fallin
Republican

The 2010 Oklahoma gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 2010, to elect the governor of Oklahoma. Due to term limits established by the Oklahoma Constitution, incumbent Democratic Governor Brad Henry could not seek re-election. The race had been hotly contested by both political parties, with several well-known Oklahomans announcing their candidacy up to two years before the election. This was the first time a woman challenged another woman for Governor of Oklahoma.

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As both parties nominated female candidates (Jari Askins for the Democrats and Mary Fallin for the Republicans), and as no third-party or write-in candidate qualified for the ballot, Oklahoma was guaranteed its first-ever female governor. In 2008, Republicans won majorities in both chambers of the state legislature for the first ever; as they expanded these majorities in the 2010 elections and Fallin won the governorship, a Republican state government trifecta was established for the first time since statehood once Fallin was sworn in on January 10, 2011.

Askins carried only four counties: her home county of Stephens and neighboring Comanche, Cotton, and Jefferson. While Fallin won all other 73 counties (of which she flipped 70), her margins varied, ranging from narrow wins in much of Eastern Oklahoma to a 66-point victory in staunchly Republican Beaver County.

Fallin was the first Republican to win Atoka County, Choctaw County, Coal County, Haskell County, Hughes County, Johnston County, Latimer County, LeFlore County, McCurtain County, Okfuskee County, Pittsburg County, and Pushmataha County in a gubernatorial election since Oklahoma statehood. Fallin was the first non-Democrat to win Tillman County, which had voted for the Democratic candidate for governor in each election since Oklahoma statehood, thus breaking a 103-year streak of voting Democratic.

Democratic primary

Declared

Polling

Poll sourceDates administeredDrew
Edmondson		Jari
Askins
SoonerPoll.com July 16–21, 201049%33%
Sooner Survey July 18–20, 201038%27%
SoonerPoll.com May 25 – June 9, 201037%36%
SoonerPoll.com January 2–5, 201046%36%

Results

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Results by county:
  Askins
  •   50–60%
  •   60–70%
  •   70–80%
  •   80–90%
  Edmondson
  •   50–60%
  •   60–70%
Democratic primary results [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Jari Askins 132,591 50.28
Democratic Drew Edmondson 131,09749.72
Total votes263,688 100.00

Republican primary

Declared

Declined

Polling

Poll sourceDates administeredMary
Fallin		Randy
Brogdon
SoonerPoll.com July 16–21, 201056%18%
Sooner Survey July 18–20, 201050%22%
SoonerPoll.com May 25 – June 9, 201059%10%
SoonerPoll.com January 2–5, 201068%16%

Results

Results by county: Fallin 40-50% 50-60% 60-70% 70-80% Brogdon 40-50% 50-60% 70-80% 2010 Oklahoma gubernatorial Republican primary.svg
Results by county:
  Fallin
  •   40–50%
  •   50–60%
  •   60–70%
  •   70–80%
  Brogdon
  •   40–50%
  •   50–60%
  •   70–80%
Republican primary results [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Mary Fallin 136,477 54.79
Republican Randy Brogdon 98,17039.41
Republican Robert Hubbard8,1323.26
Republican Roger L. Jackson6,2902.53
Total votes249,069 100.00

General election

Predictions

SourceRankingAs of
Cook Political Report [9] Likely R (flip)October 14, 2010
Rothenberg [10] Safe R (flip)October 28, 2010
RealClearPolitics [11] Safe R (flip)November 1, 2010
Sabato's Crystal Ball [12] Likely R (flip)October 28, 2010
CQ Politics [13] Lean R (flip)October 28, 2010

Polling

Poll sourceDates administeredMary
Fallin (R)		Jari
Askins (D)
SoonerPoll.com October 23, 201056%39%
SoonerPoll.com October 7, 201054%36%
Rasmussen Reports September 23, 201060%34%
Rasmussen Reports August 26, 201052%37%
Rasmussen Reports July 28, 201057%36%
SoonerPoll.com July 16–21, 201046%40%
Rasmussen Reports June 30, 201055%32%
SoonerPoll.com May 25 – June 9, 201049%36%
Rasmussen Reports February 24, 201051%37%
SoonerPoll.com January 2–5, 201052%36%
Public Policy Polling May 13–17, 200950%34%

Results

2010 Oklahoma gubernatorial election [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Republican Mary Fallin 625,506 60.45% +26.95%
Democratic Jari Askins 409,26139.55%-26.95%
Total votes1,034,767 100.00% N/A
Republican gain from Democratic

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

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