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2022 Oklahoma gubernatorial election

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2022 Oklahoma gubernatorial election
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Turnout50.2% Decrease
  Kevin Stitt (52251950006) (cropped).jpg Joy Hofmeister at Native EDGE conference 2019 (cropped).jpg
Nominee Kevin Stitt Joy Hofmeister
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote 639,484 481,904
Percentage 55.4% 41.8%
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Hofmeister:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      ≥90%
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See also: 2022 United States gubernatorial elections

The 2022 Oklahoma gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 2022, to elect the governor of Oklahoma. Incumbent Republican Governor Kevin Stitt was re-elected to a second term, defeating his Democratic challenger Joy Hofmeister.[1] former Republican state senator Ervin Yen ran as an independent, and Natalie Bruno was the Libertarian nominee.

Although Stitt won by a comfortable margin, and even expanded his margin from 2018, his performance was the worst of any 2022 Republican candidate for statewide office in Oklahoma. Meanwhile, Hofmeister's performance was the second best of any 2022 Democratic statewide candidate in Oklahoma, only behind State Superintendent of Public Instruction nominee Jena Nelson.

The primary elections for the Republican and Democratic parties' nominations took place on June 28, 2022.[2] The deadline for candidates to file was April 15, 2022.[2]

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Governor of Oklahoma

Governor of Oklahoma

The governor of Oklahoma is the head of government of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Under the Oklahoma Constitution, the governor serves as the head of the Oklahoma executive branch, of the government of Oklahoma. The governor is the ex officio commander-in-chief of the Oklahoma National Guard when not called into federal use. Despite being an executive branch official, the governor also holds legislative and judicial powers. The governor's responsibilities include making yearly "State of the State" addresses to the Oklahoma Legislature, submitting the annual state budget, ensuring that state laws are enforced, and that the peace is preserved. The governor's term is four years in length.

Republican Party (United States)

Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP, is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. The GOP was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists who opposed the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which allowed for the potential expansion of chattel slavery into the western territories. It has been the main political rival of the Democratic Party since the mid-1850s. Like them, the Republican Party is a big tent of competing and often opposing ideologies. Presently, the Republican Party contains prominent conservative, centrist, populist, and right-libertarian factions.

Kevin Stitt

Kevin Stitt

John Kevin Stitt is an American businessman and politician serving as the 28th governor of Oklahoma since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected in 2018, defeating Democrat and former state Attorney General Drew Edmondson with 54.3% of the vote. Stitt was reelected to a second term in 2022, defeating Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister, a Republican turned Democrat, with 55.4% of the vote. A member of the Cherokee Nation, Stitt is the second governor of Native descent after former Oklahoma governor Johnston Murray.

Democratic Party (United States)

Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States. Founded in 1828, it was predominantly built by Martin Van Buren, who assembled politicians in every state behind war hero Andrew Jackson, making it the world's oldest active political party. Its main political rival has been the Republican Party since the 1850s, with both parties being big tents of competing and often opposing viewpoints. Modern American liberalism — a variant of social liberalism — is the party's majority ideology. The party also has notable centrist, social democratic, and left-libertarian factions.

Joy Hofmeister

Joy Hofmeister

Joy Lynn Hofmeister is an American educator and politician who served as the Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction from 2015 to 2023. Hofmeister was sworn in as Oklahoma's 14th State Superintendent on January 12, 2015, after defeating the incumbent Republican candidate, Janet Barresi, in the primary election and Democratic candidate John Cox in the general election. Hofmeister was re-elected on November 6, 2018, and sworn in for a second four-year term as State Superintendent on January 14, 2019. Hofmeister won re-election after facing Democrat John Cox a second time, as well as independent candidate Larry Huff.

Ervin Yen

Ervin Yen

Ervin Stone Yen is an American physician and politician who represented the 40th district in the Oklahoma Senate from 2014 to 2018.

Libertarian Party (United States)

Libertarian Party (United States)

The Libertarian Party (LP) is a political party in the United States that promotes civil liberties, non-interventionism, laissez-faire capitalism, and limiting the size and scope of government. The party was conceived in August 1971 at meetings in the home of David F. Nolan in Westminster, Colorado, and was officially formed on December 11, 1971, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The organizers of the party drew inspiration from the works and ideas of the prominent Austrian school economist, Murray Rothbard. The founding of the party was prompted in part due to concerns about the Nixon administration, the Vietnam War, conscription, and the introduction of fiat money.

2018 Oklahoma gubernatorial election

2018 Oklahoma gubernatorial election

The 2018 Oklahoma gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 2018. Republican businessman Kevin Stitt was elected the governor of the state, succeeding fellow Republican Mary Fallin, who was term-limited. Primary elections occurred on June 26, 2018, with primary runoff elections having occurred on August 28, 2018.

Republican primary

Candidates

Ervin Yen, former State Senator from the 40th district, was the first to declare their campaign for the Republican Party of Oklahoma's nomination on November 8, 2020.[3] Yen later publicly announced on October 19, 2021, that he was leaving the Republican Party of Oklahoma. He criticized the party's opposition to mask and vaccine mandates for COVID-19, saying "The Oklahoma GOP has left me."[4]

Incumbent Kevin Stitt was reported as joining the race in January 2021 after officially filing for re-election.[5]

Mark Sherwood, a naturopath, was reported as joining the race in September 2021. His platform includes a "zero tolerance policy" for vaccine and mask mandates, stating "I believe the concept of vaccine and mask mandates needs to end."[6]

Joel Kintsel announced his candidacy on April 7. Moira McCabe was reported to have launched their campaign around the same time.[7]

In early June, Stitt's campaign pulled one of its commercials after Oklahoma County District Attorney, David Prater announced an investigation into whether it violated state law for featuring Oklahoma Attorney General John O'Connor. While pulling the ad, the campaign maintained they "are confident that it is an acceptable campaign ad focused on the Governor's accomplishments and fulfilled campaign promises."[8]

Incumbent Kevin Stitt won the June 28 Republican primary.

Nominee

Eliminated in primary

Withdrew before filing

Declined

Endorsements

Mark Sherwood
State Senators
State Representative
Individual
Kevin Stitt
U.S. Executive Branch official
State Senators
State Representatives
Newspaper
Organizations

Polling

Poll source Date(s)
administered 		Sample
size[a] 		Margin
of error 		Joel
Kintsel 		Moira
McCabe 		Mark
Sherwood 		Kevin
Stitt 		Undecided
Amber Integrated (R) June 6–9, 2022 400 (LV) ± 4.9% 4% 3% 8% 61% 23%
SoonerPoll April 25 – May 11, 2022 306 (LV) ± 5.6% 4% 1% 5% 67% 24%
Amber Integrated (R) March 24–27, 2022 455 (LV) ± 4.6% – – 15% 59% 26%

Results

Results by county: .mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}  Stitt   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%   80–90%
Results by county:
  Stitt
  •   40–50%
  •   50–60%
  •   60–70%
  •   70–80%
  •   80–90%
Republican primary results[23]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Kevin Stitt (incumbent) 248,525 69.06%
Republican Joel Kintsel 51,587 14.33%
Republican Mark Sherwood 47,713 13.26%
Republican Moira McCabe 12,046 3.35%
Total votes 359,871 100.0%

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Ervin Yen

Ervin Yen

Ervin Stone Yen is an American physician and politician who represented the 40th district in the Oklahoma Senate from 2014 to 2018.

COVID-19

COVID-19

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The disease quickly spread worldwide, resulting in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Kevin Stitt

Kevin Stitt

John Kevin Stitt is an American businessman and politician serving as the 28th governor of Oklahoma since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected in 2018, defeating Democrat and former state Attorney General Drew Edmondson with 54.3% of the vote. Stitt was reelected to a second term in 2022, defeating Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister, a Republican turned Democrat, with 55.4% of the vote. A member of the Cherokee Nation, Stitt is the second governor of Native descent after former Oklahoma governor Johnston Murray.

Naturopathy

Naturopathy

Naturopathy, or naturopathic medicine, is a form of alternative medicine. A wide array of pseudoscientific practices branded as "natural", "non-invasive", or promoting "self-healing" are employed by its practitioners, who are known as naturopaths. Difficult to generalize, these treatments range from outright quackery, like homeopathy, to widely accepted practices like certain forms of psychotherapy. The ideology and methods of naturopathy are based on vitalism and folk medicine rather than evidence-based medicine, although practitioners may use techniques supported by evidence.

David Prater (attorney)

David Prater (attorney)

David Prater is the current Oklahoma County, District 7, District Attorney.

John M. O'Connor

John M. O'Connor

John Michael O'Connor is an American attorney and politician who served as the 19th attorney general of Oklahoma between 2021 and 2023. O’Connor was previously a shareholder of Hall Estill and a nominee to be a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma, and the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.

Parliamentarian (consultant)

Parliamentarian (consultant)

In the United States, a parliamentarian is an expert on parliamentary procedure who advises organizations and deliberative assemblies. This sense of the term "parliamentarian" is distinct from the usage in parliamentary republics and monarchies as a synonym for member of parliament.

Tulsa Police Department

Tulsa Police Department

The Tulsa Police Department (TPD) is the principal law enforcement agency for the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. It is nationally accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies It is the second largest municipal law enforcement agency in Oklahoma.

T. W. Shannon

T. W. Shannon

Tahrohon Wayne Shannon is an American banker and politician who served as a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives for the 62nd district from 2007 to 2015. In a ceremony on January 8, 2013, Shannon took the oath of office to be Oklahoma's first African-American speaker of the House. Shannon stepped down as the speaker to run for the Republican nomination in the 2014 United States Senate special election in Oklahoma to succeed Tom Coburn.

Oklahoma House of Representatives

Oklahoma House of Representatives

The Oklahoma House of Representatives is the lower house of the legislature of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Its members introduce and vote on bills and resolutions, provide legislative oversight for state agencies, and help to craft the state's budget. The upper house of the Oklahoma Legislature is the Oklahoma Senate.

2022 United States Senate special election in Oklahoma

2022 United States Senate special election in Oklahoma

The 2022 United States Senate special election in Oklahoma was held on November 8, 2022, to elect a member of the United States Senate for Oklahoma. The election took place concurrently with the regularly scheduled election for Oklahoma's other Senate seat. The candidate filing deadline was between April 13–15, 2022.

Democratic primary

Former state senator Connie Johnson was the first Democrat to enter the race.
Former state senator Connie Johnson was the first Democrat to enter the race.

Former state senator Connie Johnson was the first Democrat to enter the race, officially declaring her candidacy on July 6, 2021. Her platform includes expanding access to healthcare, revitalizing Oklahoma's infrastructure, pursuing criminal justice reforms like banning the death penalty, support for reproductive rights, and legalizing marijuana (marijuana is currently legal in Oklahoma for medicinal purposes, but is illegal for recreational use). A political progressive, Johnson was the only Oklahoma superdelegate who supported Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential primary.[24][25]

On October 7, 2021, Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister announced her plans to switch from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party and run for governor. Hofmeister had first been elected as a Republican in 2014 and 2018. This marked the first time that a Democrat held a statewide elected position in Oklahoma since Republicans swept every statewide office in 2010. Hofmeister had frequently clashed with Republican governor Kevin Stitt during the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, she opposed the decision by the Oklahoma State Department of Education, whose members were appointed by Stitt, to forego imposing a mask mandate on schools.[26] Her platform includes increasing education funding, investing in infrastructure, expanding mental health services, sentencing reform, and support for abortion rights.[27]

Johnson was openly skeptical of Hofmeister's decision to change parties, calling it a "big hoax." She pointed out that Hofmeister could still switch back to the Republican Party after being elected.[27] However, other Democrats in the state were more receptive, with the Oklahoma Democratic Party issuing a statement welcoming Hofmeister to the party.[28] Oklahoma Democratic Party chair Alicia Andrews admitted she was suspicious at first, but after talking with Hofmeister she became convinced that Hofmeister's intentions were good. Hofmeister emphasized that she was not changing her political beliefs, just her party, and is considerably more moderate in comparison to Johnson.[29] Andrews commented that they are "two very different candidates," and they give Democratic voters "a real choice. If you don’t have a super progressive bent and maybe Connie scares you because she is so progressive, you have Joy. If Joy is too moderate, you have Connie."[25]

Candidates

Nominee

Eliminated in primary

Declined

Polling

Poll source Date(s)
administered 		Sample
size[a] 		Margin
of error 		Joy
Hofmeister 		Connie
Johnson 		Undecided
Amber Integrated (R) October 12–14, 2021 243 (RV) ± 6.3% 33% 13% 55%

Results

Results by county:   Hofmeister   50–60%   60–70%   Johnson   50–60%   70–80%
Results by county:
  Hofmeister
  •   50–60%
  •   60–70%
  Johnson
  •   50–60%
  •   70–80%
Democratic primary results[23]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Joy Hofmeister 101,913 60.73%
Democratic Connie Johnson 65,894 39.27%
Total votes 167,807 100.0%

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Constance N. Johnson

Constance N. Johnson

Constance Nevlin Johnson is an American politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. She served in the Oklahoma Senate, representing District 48, which encompasses portions of northeastern and northwestern Oklahoma County until 2014. She was first elected to the state senate in a special election in September 2005.

Reproductive rights

Reproductive rights

Reproductive rights are legal rights and freedoms relating to reproduction and reproductive health that vary amongst countries around the world. The World Health Organization defines reproductive rights as follows: Reproductive rights rest on the recognition of the basic right of all couples and individuals to decide freely and responsibly the number, spacing and timing of their children and to have the information and means to do so, and the right to attain the highest standard of sexual and reproductive health. They also include the right of all to make decisions concerning reproduction free of discrimination, coercion and violence.

Progressivism in the United States

Progressivism in the United States

Progressivism in the United States is a political philosophy and reform movement in the United States advocating policies that are generally considered left-wing, left-wing populist, democratic socialist, libertarian socialist, social democratic, and environmentalist. In mainstream American politics, progressives generally advocate a universal healthcare system, wage equity and labor rights, economic justice, social justice, opposition to the military–industrial complex, an increase in corporate regulation, the abolition of capital punishment, and action on climate change.

Superdelegate

Superdelegate

In American politics, a superdelegate is an unpledged delegate to the Democratic National Convention who is seated automatically and chooses for themselves for whom they vote. These Democratic Party superdelegates include party leaders and elected officials (PLEOs).

Vermont

Vermont

Vermont is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north. Admitted to the Union in 1791 as the 14th state, it is the only state in New England not bordered by the Atlantic Ocean. According to the 2020 U.S. census, the state has a population of 643,503, ranking it the second least-populated in the U.S. after Wyoming. It is also the nation's sixth-smallest state in area. The state's capital Montpelier is the least-populous state capital in the U.S., while its most-populous city, Burlington, is the least-populous to be a state's largest.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders

Bernard Sanders is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Vermont, a seat he has held since 2007. He was the U.S. representative for the state's at-large congressional district from 1991 to 2007. Sanders is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history. He has a close relationship with the Democratic Party, having caucused with House and Senate Democrats for most of his congressional career. A self-described democratic socialist, he is often seen as a leader of the progressive movement in the United States. Sanders unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party nomination for president of the United States in 2016 and 2020, finishing in second place in both campaigns. Before his election to Congress, he was mayor of Burlington, Vermont.

2016 Oklahoma Democratic presidential primary

2016 Oklahoma Democratic presidential primary

The 2016 Oklahoma Democratic presidential primary took place on March 1 in the U.S. state of Oklahoma as one of the Democratic Party's primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

Republican Party (United States)

Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP, is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. The GOP was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists who opposed the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which allowed for the potential expansion of chattel slavery into the western territories. It has been the main political rival of the Democratic Party since the mid-1850s. Like them, the Republican Party is a big tent of competing and often opposing ideologies. Presently, the Republican Party contains prominent conservative, centrist, populist, and right-libertarian factions.

Kevin Stitt

Kevin Stitt

John Kevin Stitt is an American businessman and politician serving as the 28th governor of Oklahoma since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected in 2018, defeating Democrat and former state Attorney General Drew Edmondson with 54.3% of the vote. Stitt was reelected to a second term in 2022, defeating Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister, a Republican turned Democrat, with 55.4% of the vote. A member of the Cherokee Nation, Stitt is the second governor of Native descent after former Oklahoma governor Johnston Murray.

COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified in an outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019. Attempts to contain it there failed, allowing the virus to spread to other areas of Asia and later worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020. As of 10 March 2023, the pandemic had caused more than 676 million cases and 6.88 million confirmed deaths, making it one of the deadliest in history.

Oklahoma State Department of Education

Oklahoma State Department of Education

The Oklahoma State Department of Education is the state education agency of the State of Oklahoma charged with determining the policies and directing the administration and supervision of the public school system of Oklahoma. The State Board of Education, the governing body of the Department, is composed of the Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction and six members appointed by the Governor of Oklahoma with the approval of the Oklahoma Senate. The State Superintendent, in addition to serving as chair of the Board, serves as the chief executive officer of the Department and is elected by the voters of Oklahoma every four years.

General election

Ervin Yen, who served in the Oklahoma Senate as a Republican, ran as an Independent candidate.
Ervin Yen, who served in the Oklahoma Senate as a Republican, ran as an Independent candidate.

Candidates

Declared, but failed to file

Debates

2022 Oklahoma gubernatorial debates
No. Date Host Moderator Link Participants
Key:
 P  Participant   A  Absent   N  Non-invitee   I  Invitee  W  Withdrawn
Joy
Hofmeister 		Kevin
Stitt 		Natalie
Bruno 		Ervin
Yen
1 October 19, 2022 C-SPAN Tres Savage and Storme Jones [1] P P N N

Endorsements

Kevin Stitt (R)
U.S. Executive Branch officials
U.S. Senators
Statewide Officials
State Senators
State Representatives
Newspapers
Labor Unions
Organizations
Joy Hofmeister (D)
U.S. Representatives
Statewide officials
State Senators
State Representatives
Tribal Nations
Tribal officials
Individuals
Newspapers
Labor unions
Local Officials
Organizations

Predictions

Source Ranking As of
The Cook Political Report[67] Likely R September 29, 2022
Inside Elections[68] Likely R October 7, 2022
Sabato's Crystal Ball[69] Likely R October 12, 2022
Politico[70] Likely R October 3, 2022
RCP[71] Tossup October 17, 2022
Fox News[72] Lean R November 1, 2022
538[73] Likely R October 17, 2022
Elections Daily[74] Safe R November 7, 2022

Polling

Aggregate polls
Source of poll
aggregation 		Dates
administered 		Dates
updated 		Kevin
Stitt (R) 		Joy
Hofmeister (D) 		Other
[c] 		Margin
FiveThirtyEight March 27 – November 7, 2022 November 7, 2022 48.2% 43.4% 8.4% Stitt +4.8
Graphical summary
Poll source Date(s)
administered 		Sample
size[a] 		Margin
of error 		Kevin
Stitt (R) 		Joy
Hofmeister (D) 		Natalie
Bruno (L) 		Ervin
Yen (I) 		Undecided
Ascend Action (R) November 5–6, 2022 682 (LV) ± 3.8% 49% 46% 1% 1% 4%
Tomahawk Strategies (R) November 1–3, 2022 729 (LV) ± 4.0% 42% 45% – – –
Blueprint Polling October 26 – November 1, 2022 557 (LV) ± 4.2% 48% 40% 2% 4% 6%
WPA Intelligence (R)[A] October 28–31, 2022 500 (LV) ± 4.4% 52% 39% – – 4%
Amber Integrated (R) October 26–28, 2022 501 (LV) ± 4.4% 45% 44% 2% 4% 4%
Emerson College October 25–28, 2022 1,000 (LV) ± 3.0% 49% 40% 1% 2% 8%
52% 43% 2% 4% –
Ascend Action (R) October 24–28, 2022 749 (LV) ± 3.6% 45% 48% 1% 1% 6%
SoonerPoll October 24–28, 2022 324 (LV) ± 5.0% 45% 48% 2% 3% 2%
Amber Integrated (R) October 13–15, 2022 500 (LV) ± 4.4% 45% 46% 1% 3% 5%
Ascend Action (R) October 10–12, 2022 638 (LV) ± 3.9% 42% 49% 0% 0% 8%
SoonerPoll October 3–6, 2022 301 (LV) ± 5.7% 43% 47% 2% 1% 7%
American Viewpoint (R)[A] September 26–28, 2022 500 (LV) ± 4.4% 48% 33% 9%[d] 8%
Amber Integrated (R) September 19–21, 2022 500 (LV) ± 4.4% 47% 44% 2% 1% 6%
–(L)[B] September 15–18, 2022 2,989 (LV) ± 3.2% 39% 40% 9% 5% 7%
SoonerPoll September 2–7, 2022 402 (LV) ± 4.9% 44% 43% 3% 4% 7%
Echelon Insights August 31 – September 7, 2022 522 (RV) ± 6.3% 55% 36% – – 10%
Change Research (D)[C] July 22–26, 2022 2,079 (LV) ± 3.1% 42% 34% 6% 4% 14%
Amber Integrated (R) June 6–9, 2022 795 (LV) ± 3.5% 47% 29% 2% 5% 18%
Amber Integrated (R) March 24–27, 2022 500 (LV) ± 4.4% 44% 30% 3% 4% 18%
Cole Hargrave Snodgrass & Associates (R)[D] January 10–21, 2022 500 (RV) ± 4.3% 49% 27% 3% 5% 15%
Change Research (D)[C] January 6–10, 2022 881 (LV) ± 4.8% 58% 32% – – 10%
Amber Integrated (R) December 15–19, 2021 500 (RV) ± 4.4% 47% 32% – – 21%
Amber Integrated (R) October 12–14, 2021 500 (RV) ± 4.4% 49% 33% – – 18%
Cole Hargrave Snodgrass & Associates (R)[D] October 2021 500 (RV) ± 4.3% 46% 31% 6% 17%

Results

2022 Oklahoma gubernatorial election swing map by county.svg
2022 Oklahoma gubernatorial election trend map by county.svg
2022 Oklahoma gubernatorial election[75][76]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Kevin Stitt (incumbent) 639,484 55.45% +1.12%
Democratic Joy Hofmeister 481,904 41.79% -0.44%
Libertarian Natalie Bruno 16,243 1.41% -2.03%
Independent Ervin Yen 15,653 1.36% N/A
Total votes 1,153,284 100.0%
Turnout 1,153,284 50.23%
Registered electors 2,295,906
Republican hold

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Ervin Yen

Ervin Yen

Ervin Stone Yen is an American physician and politician who represented the 40th district in the Oklahoma Senate from 2014 to 2018.

Oklahoma Senate

Oklahoma Senate

The Oklahoma Senate is the upper house of the two houses of the Legislature of Oklahoma, the other being the Oklahoma House of Representatives. The total number of senators is set at 48 by the Oklahoma Constitution.

Kevin Stitt

Kevin Stitt

John Kevin Stitt is an American businessman and politician serving as the 28th governor of Oklahoma since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected in 2018, defeating Democrat and former state Attorney General Drew Edmondson with 54.3% of the vote. Stitt was reelected to a second term in 2022, defeating Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister, a Republican turned Democrat, with 55.4% of the vote. A member of the Cherokee Nation, Stitt is the second governor of Native descent after former Oklahoma governor Johnston Murray.

Joy Hofmeister

Joy Hofmeister

Joy Lynn Hofmeister is an American educator and politician who served as the Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction from 2015 to 2023. Hofmeister was sworn in as Oklahoma's 14th State Superintendent on January 12, 2015, after defeating the incumbent Republican candidate, Janet Barresi, in the primary election and Democratic candidate John Cox in the general election. Hofmeister was re-elected on November 6, 2018, and sworn in for a second four-year term as State Superintendent on January 14, 2019. Hofmeister won re-election after facing Democrat John Cox a second time, as well as independent candidate Larry Huff.

C-SPAN

C-SPAN

Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network is an American cable and satellite television network, created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a nonprofit public service. It televises proceedings of the United States federal government and other public affairs programming. C-SPAN is a private, nonprofit organization funded by its cable and satellite affiliates. It does not have advertisements on any of its networks or radio stations, nor does it solicit donations or pledges. The network operates independently; the cable industry and the U.S. Congress have no control over its programming content.

Donald Trump

Donald Trump

Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.

List of presidents of the United States

List of presidents of the United States

The president of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States, indirectly elected to a four-year term via the Electoral College. The officeholder leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces. Since the office was established in 1789, 45 men have served in 46 presidencies. The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College; one, Grover Cleveland, served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the number of presidencies and the number of persons who have served as president. The incumbent president is Joe Biden.

Glenn Youngkin

Glenn Youngkin

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George Burns is an American politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. A member of the Republican Party, he currently serves in the Oklahoma Senate as the elected member from the 5th District which encompasses parts of Atoka, Choctaw, LeFlore, McCurtain, and Pushmataha Counties. He was first elected in the 2020 Oklahoma Senate election after winning the Republican primary on June 30, 2020 and going on to win the general election on November 3, 2020. His current term expires in 2025.

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Further Reading

Oklahoma Republican Party

Constance N. Johnson

2014 Oklahoma elections

Joy Hofmeister

2018 Oklahoma gubernatorial election

Kevin Stitt

Matt Pinnell

Terry O'Donnell (politician)

Monroe Nichols

2022 United States Senate election in Oklahoma

2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Oklahoma

2022 Oklahoma House of Representatives election

2022 Oklahoma Senate election

Jake A. Merrick

Ryan Martinez (politician)

2022 Oklahoma elections

2022 Oklahoma State Treasurer election

2022 United States Senate special election in Oklahoma
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Notes
  1. ^ a b c Key:
    A – all adults
    RV – registered voters
    LV – likely voters
    V – unclear
  2. ^ Paul Tay was arrested on August 23, 2021 and charged with kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon, and rape.[36] The charges were later dropped in early August 2022, nearly a year after his arrest.[37]
  3. ^ Calculated by taking the difference of 100% and all other candidates combined.
  4. ^ "A 3rd party candidate" with 9%
Partisan clients
  1. ^ a b This poll was sponsored by Stitt's campaign
  2. ^ This poll was conducted in-house by and for Bruno's campaign
  3. ^ a b This poll was sponsored by Oklahoma's Children Our Future
  4. ^ a b Poll sponsored by the American Federation for Children
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