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- ↑ State Senator Nancy Riley Background Archived August 18, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "2006 Primary Results". State Election Board. Archived from the original on 2006-12-18. Retrieved 2007-04-08.
- ↑ Hoberock, Barbara and Mick Hinton. "Senator bolts abhorrent GOP", Tulsa World (accessed May 14, 2013)
- ↑ "State Senator Nancy Riley Changes Party Registration". Archived from the original on 2008-07-06. Retrieved 2007-04-09.
- ↑ Barbara Hoberock (June 3, 2007). "GOP-turned-Dem senator reflects on past session". Tulsa World. Archived from the original on June 14, 2008. Retrieved 2007-06-14.
- ↑ Nancy Riley -- Women of the Oklahoma Legislature Oral History Project
- ↑ GOP Takes Control of Oklahoma Senate, Tulsa World, Nov. 4, 2008.
- ↑ "2008 General Results". State Election Board. Archived from the original on October 29, 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-05.
- ↑ "2004 General Results". State Election Board. Archived from the original on 2007-04-02. Retrieved 2007-04-08.
- ↑ "2000 General Results". State Election Board. Archived from the original on 2006-11-26. Retrieved 2007-04-08.