Oklahoma 2018 Election Results

Ballot Measures, June 26, 2018

Oklahoma voters decided 1 statewide ballot measure on June 26, 2018.

Ballot measures

General Election, November 6, 2018

Oklahoma held its general election on November 6, 2018, deciding 125 legislative seats and 9 statewide offices led by the governorship. No chamber changed party control.

Highlights

• Republicans kept two-thirds supermajorities in both chambers and won every statewide office on the ballot, but the state kept splitting along urban-rural lines: Democrats gained in and around Oklahoma City and Tulsa as Republicans tightened their grip on rural Oklahoma.
• Each party flipped seats the other held, and Republicans came out ahead in the House. They took eight Democratic seats, seven in the House and one in the Senate, all outside the two metros except the Tulsa-area seat of Rep. Karen Gaddis (D). Democrats took six Republican seats. On net, Republicans gained three House seats and lost one in the Senate.
  • Democratic incumbents who lost: Gaddis in HD-75 to T.J. Marti (R); Donnie Condit (D) in HD-18 by about 340 votes to David Smith (R); and House Minority Leader Steve Kouplen (D) in HD-24 by about 350 votes to Logan Phillips (R).
  • Democrats' pickups, four in Oklahoma City and two in Tulsa, were all won by women: Chelsey Branham (D) (HD-83), Kelly Albright (D) (HD-95), Denise Brewer (D) (HD-71), and Melissa Provenzano (D) (HD-79) in the House, plus Julia Kirt (D) (SD-30) and Carri Hicks (D) (SD-40) in the Senate.
  • Republicans' other pickups came in rural House districts 6, 15, 17, and 86, and in Senate District 32, where John Montgomery (R) won.
• Kevin Stitt (R) beat Drew Edmondson (D) by about 12 points for governor, and the same divide decided it: Edmondson carried the four most populous counties around Oklahoma City and Tulsa by three points but lost the rest of the state by 22.
• Every other statewide race went Republican by double digits. Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister (R) and Corporation Commissioner Bob Anthony (R) were re-elected, Attorney General Michael J. Hunter (R), appointed in 2017, won a full term, and Matt Pinnell (R) was elected lieutenant governor.
• The election capped a year shaped by the spring's 10-day teacher walkout, which ended days before candidates filed. Educators won 21 legislative seats, 17 of them as newcomers, in a Legislature that opened 2019 with 56 freshmen. The number of women lawmakers rose by 11, to 32.
• Beyond the flips, the closest finish was House District 62, where Daniel Pae (R) edged Larry Bush (D) by fewer than 50 votes. In 33 seats, only one major party fielded a candidate.
• Of the 5 state questions on the November ballot, voters passed only State Question 794, the Marsy's Law crime-victims' rights amendment. They rejected SQ 793 (eye care in retail stores), SQ 798 (a joint governor and lieutenant governor ticket), SQ 800 (an oil and gas revenue investment fund), and SQ 801 (building-fund property taxes for school operations). In June, voters had approved State Question 788, legalizing medical marijuana.

Legislature

• House (101 seats): 27 D, 72 R, 2 other or vacant before the election, 26 D, 75 R after; control stayed with Republicans.
• Senate (48 seats): 8 D, 39 R, 1 other or vacant before the election, 10 D, 38 R after; control stayed with Republicans.

Statewide races

Legislative races

Ballot measures