United States presidential elections in Oklahoma

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Presidential elections in Oklahoma
Oklahoma in United States.svg
Number of elections30
Voted Democratic10
Voted Republican20
Voted other0
Voted for winning candidate21
Voted for losing candidate9

Oklahoma is a state in the South Central region of the United States. [1] Since it joined the United States in 1907, [2] Oklahoma has participated in 29 presidential elections. It was initially granted seven electoral votes, [3] gaining three following the 1910 census. [4] It was given an additional vote in the 1930 census, [5] which it later lost in the 1940 census. [5] The state's electoral votes were reduced to eight in the 1950 census [6] before returning to its original seven following the 2000 census. [7]

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In the 1960 election, Republican candidates Richard Nixon and Henry C. Lodge won Oklahoma. [8] 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 a fine to, faithless electors. [9]

Oklahoma initially fluctuated between voting Democrat and Republican, but it has recently come to be considered a safely red state. Republicans having won every single Oklahoma county since the 2004 presidential election. [10] The last Democrat to win the state was Lyndon B. Johnson in his 1964 landslide victory. [11] [12] Oklahoma was last considered a swing state during the presidential campaigns of Jimmy Carter (1976 and 1980) and Bill Clinton (1992 and 1996). [13]

Republicans have won the White House without winning Oklahoma only twice: William H. Taft in 1908 and Calvin Coolidge in 1924. Democrats have won without the state eight times, the most recent in Joe Biden's election in 2020.

Presidential elections

Key for parties
   American Independent Party – (AI)
   Democratic Party – (D)
   Independent candidate – (I)
   Libertarian Party – (LI)
   Prohibition Party – (PRO)
   Progressive Party (1924) – (PR)
   Reform Party – (RE)
   Republican Party – (R)
   Socialist Party of America – (S)


Note: A double dagger (‡) indicates the national winner.
Note: Percentages may not total 100.0%.

Election results
YearWinnerRunner-upOther candidate [a] EVRef.
CandidateVotes%CandidateVotes%CandidateVotes%
William Jennings Bryan (D)122,363 William Taft (R)‡110,474 Eugene Debs (S)21,7347
[3]
Woodrow Wilson (D)‡119,156 William Taft (R)90,786 Eugene Debs (S)41,67410
[4]
Woodrow Wilson (D)‡148,113 Charles Evans Hughes (R)97,233 Allan L. Benson (S)45,19010
Warren G. Harding (R)‡243,831 James M. Cox (D)217,053 Eugene Debs (S)25,72610
John W. Davis (D)255,798 Calvin Coolidge (R)‡226,242 Robert M. La Follette (PR)46,37510
Herbert Hoover (R)‡394,046 Al Smith (D)219,174 Norman Thomas (S)3,92410
Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)‡516,468 Herbert Hoover (R)188,165
–
–
–
11
[5]
Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)‡501,069 Alf Landon (R)245,122 Norman Thomas (S)2,22111
Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)‡474,313 Wendell Willkie (R)348,872 Roger Babson (PRO)3,02710
Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)‡401,549 Thomas E. Dewey (R)319,424 Claude A. Watson (PRO)1,66310
Harry S. Truman (D)452,782 Thomas E. Dewey (R)‡268,817
–
–
–
10
[6]
Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)‡518,045 Adlai Stevenson (D)430,939
–
–
–
8
Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)‡473,769 Adlai Stevenson (D)385,581
–
–
–
8
Richard Nixon (R) [b] 533,039 John F. Kennedy (D)‡370,111
–
–
–
8
Lyndon B. Johnson (D)‡519,834 Barry Goldwater (R)412,665
–
–
–
8
Richard Nixon (R)‡449,697 Hubert Humphrey (D)301,658 George Wallace (AI)191,7318
Richard Nixon (R)‡759,025 George McGovern (D)247,147 John G. Schmitz (AI)23,7288
Gerald Ford (R)545,708 Jimmy Carter (D)‡532,442 Eugene McCarthy (I)14,1018
Ronald Reagan (R)‡695,570 Jimmy Carter (D)402,026 Ed Clark (LI)13,8288
Ronald Reagan (R)‡861,530 Walter Mondale (D)385,080 David Bergland (LI)9,0668
George H. W. Bush (R)‡678,367 Michael Dukakis (D)483,423 Ron Paul (LI)2,9858
George H. W. Bush (R)592,929 Bill Clinton (D)‡473,066 Ross Perot (I)353,7418
Bob Dole (R)582,315 Bill Clinton (D)‡488,105 Ross Perot (RE)130,7888
George W. Bush (R)‡744,337 Al Gore (D)474,276 Pat Buchanan (RE)9,0148
George W. Bush (R)‡959,792 John Kerry (D)503,966
–
–
–
7
John McCain (R)959,745 Barack Obama (D)‡502,294
–
–
–
7
Mitt Romney (R)889,372 Barack Obama (D)‡442,647
–
–
–
7
Donald Trump (R)‡949,136 Hillary Clinton (D)420,375 Gary Johnson (LI)83,4817
Donald Trump (R)1,020,280 Joe Biden (D)‡503,890 Jo Jorgensen (LI)24,7317
Donald Trump (R)‡1,035,219 Kamala Harris (D)499,043 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (I)15,9927

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ For the purposes of this table, other candidates are defined as those who were in third place in Oklahoma. Some elections did not have a qualified third-party candidate.
  2. ↑ A faithless elector voted for presidential candidate Harry F. Byrd and vice-presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. [8]

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