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The 2014 United States Senate election in Oklahoma took place on November 4, 2014 to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Oklahoma, concurrently with the special election to Oklahoma's other Senate seat, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
Incumbent Republican Senator Jim Inhofe was running for re-election to a fourth term in office. He won the Republican primary against several minor candidates; Democratic nominee Matt Silverstein, an insurance agency owner, was unopposed for his party's nomination. This was Inhofe's first election in which he won every county, and his only election in which he won majority in every county.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Jim Inhofe (incumbent) | 231,291 | 87.69% | |
Republican | Evelyn Rodgers | 11,960 | 4.53% | |
Republican | Erick Wyatt | 11,713 | 4.44% | |
Republican | Rob Moye | 4,846 | 1.84% | |
Republican | D. Jean McBride-Samuels | 3,965 | 1.50% | |
Total votes | 263,775 | 100.00% |
Silverstein was unopposed for the Democratic nomination, so no primary was held.
Source | Ranking | As of |
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The Cook Political Report [15] | Solid R | November 3, 2014 |
Sabato's Crystal Ball [16] | Safe R | November 3, 2014 |
Rothenberg Political Report [17] | Safe R | November 3, 2014 |
Real Clear Politics [18] | Safe R | November 3, 2014 |
Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Jim Inhofe (R) | Matt Silverstein (D) | Other | Undecided |
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Rasmussen Reports | July 15–16, 2014 | 750 | ± 4% | 58% | 27% | 4% | 10% |
CBS News/NYT/YouGov | July 5–24, 2014 | 1,312 | ± 4.7% | 56% | 32% | 10% | 3% |
Sooner Poll | August 28–30, 2014 | 603 | ± 3.99% | 59% | 27% | 5% [19] | 9% |
CBS News/NYT/YouGov | August 18 – September 2, 2014 | 821 | ± 5% | 60% | 28% | 1% | 11% |
Sooner Poll | September 27–29, 2014 | 400 | ± 4.9% | 56% | 32% | 5% | 7% |
CBS News/NYT/YouGov | September 20 – October 1, 2014 | 1,244 | ± 3% | 67% | 25% | 0% | 8% |
CBS News/NYT/YouGov | October 16–23, 2014 | 995 | ± 5% | 63% | 27% | 0% | 10% |
Sooner Poll | October 25–29, 2014 | 949 | ± 3.18% | 63% | 28% | 5% [20] | 4% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Republican | Jim Inhofe (incumbent) | 558,166 | 68.01% | +11.33% | |
Democratic | Matt Silverstein | 234,307 | 28.55% | -10.63% | |
Independent | Joan Farr | 10,554 | 1.28% | N/A | |
Independent | Ray Woods | 9,913 | 1.21% | N/A | |
Independent | Aaron DeLozier | 7,793 | 0.95% | N/A | |
Total votes | 820,733 | 100.00% | N/A | ||
Republican hold |
James Mountain Inhofe is a retired American politician who served as a United States senator from Oklahoma from 1994 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he is the longest serving U.S. senator from Oklahoma. He served in various elected offices in the state of Oklahoma for nearly sixty years, between 1966 and 2023.
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