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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] In the 1960 election, Republican candidates Richard Nixon and Henry C. Lodge won Oklahoma. [8]
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 the state. The party dominated local politics in Oklahoma almost since the days of early statehood in 1907 to 1994.
No Democratic presidential candidate has won Oklahoma County since Lyndon B. Johnson in his 1964 landslide, or Tulsa County since Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1936 landslide. This is the first election since 2000 in which not every county voted in the majority for the Republican, as Oklahoma County was won by Republicans with a 49.21% plurality.
Of voters removed, 46.6% were Republicans, 31.2% were Democrats, 21.4% were independents and 0.79% were Libertarians, according to an Oklahoma Voice analysis.
The following is a table of United States presidential election results by state. They are indirect elections in which voters in each state cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College who pledge to vote for a specific political party's nominee for president.
Independents and Republicans are both gaining in voter registrations, while Democrats - once dominant in the state - continue to decline.
Joe Biden received 73% of the vote during Oklahoma's Democratic presidential primary election on March 5. This result gave him 36 committed delegates from Oklahoma, adding to the nationwide total ...
Oklahoma operates a modified closed primary system, in which only members of a given political party may vote in that party's primary and runoff primary elections. The system is "modified" in that the chairman of each political party may allow registered Independents to vote in that party's primary election, but is not required to do so.