Oklahoma County

So we, if you look at Tulsa, we actually, and CD1, we won Tulsa.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, and Cleveland County, and Comanche County all went blue.

So again, it's not necessarily that blue wave, but you can see that the tides are shifting.

It's a ripple.

Andy, what are your thoughts on those wins?

Yeah, so the Democrats picked up six seats in the state house, a couple in Oklahoma County, one in Tulsa County, one in Comanche County, one in kind of at the edge of Cleveland County there.

Some of these were candidates who have run before.

Shante Gilmore in House District 100 out in northwest Oklahoma City.

And so I think as we hopefully begin to tackle issues like education and gas prices and all this stuff that are the low hanging fruit.

The bigger, you know, sticky wickets of health care and affordability there, I do think are going to come back up.

Statewide ballot measures failed across the state while referendums in Tulsa and Oklahoma County got mixed results.

Voters opposed state question 845 to make changes to the Judicial Nominating Commission with nearly 73% voting against it.

I think Will and I talked about this after we had recorded last night when we were starting to look at some of the results.

I said, I'm pretty sure Oklahoma County, Tulsa County, and maybe Cleveland County in Oklahoma are going to go for Munson no matter what.

And like always, it's low information, low education, and rural voters that ultimately will bring home the Republicans.

win.

And, and that ended up being true.

So Oklahoma County, Tulsa County and Cleveland counties all went for Munson, but we also flipped Payne County.

So, I mean, we were like Trump plus 28, I think, or so, um, to go, going into this election or going to the last election.

And, um, we have this much movement in the state.

With the district's previous map, she may have won.

After Democrat Kendra Horn's shocking 2018 victory, the state legislature reconfigured the district, adding three rural counties and removing the district's southwestern portion of Oklahoma County.

That removed section of Oklahoma County voted overwhelmingly for Democrats on Tuesday.

Nelson and her fellow Democrat Susie Byrd outperformed their Republican rivals by about 20,000 votes within the old district.

In reality, however, Bice won the redistricted CD5 by about 3,000 votes.

In Tulsa, I'm Lindsay Crable-Burton.

Voters in Oklahoma County reject a proposed sales tax to fund the construction of a new county jail.

KOSU's Ashton Caldwell reports.

Oklahoma County has been attempting to find solutions for its struggling detention center for years.

In 2022, voters approved a $260 million bond to construct a new county jail.

But the project's price tag ballooned, and it's now expected to cost upwards of $860 million.

The federal government announced in late October that it would send observers to Tulsa, Muskogee, and Oklahoma counties as part of a nationwide initiative to monitor compliance with federal election laws.

According to Reporting Tuesday from another Oklahoma Public Media Exchange station, Oklahoma County Election Board Secretary Doug Sanderson said that the federal monitors had an extremely limited presence in his county and kept their distance from polling places and voters.

In Tulsa, I'm Lindsay Crable-Burton.

A Lawton Democrat is headed to the Oklahoma House of Representatives.

Let's see.

We have voting machines in Oklahoma County precincts on Election Day that were shut down.

Machines weren't accepting the ballots.

Voters are told to drop them in the locked emergency box instead.