{
 "topic": "senate",
 "site": "electiondata.dev",
 "place": {
  "id": "us-ok",
  "name": "Oklahoma",
  "level": "us-state",
  "parent": "usa",
  "path": "us/ok",
  "slug": "ok",
  "state": "ok",
  "state_name": "Oklahoma",
  "state_id": "us-ok"
 },
 "question": "How did Oklahoma vote for the Senate?",
 "answer": {
  "verdict": "James Lankford (Republican) won by 32.2 points",
  "value": 32.2,
  "unit": " pts",
  "digits": 1,
  "label": "Senate, 2022: winner's margin",
  "lines": [
   "James Lankford (Republican) 64.3%, Madison Horn (Democrat) 32.1%, Michael L. Delaney (Independent) 1.8%",
   "1,150,732 votes for Senate candidates",
   "Also in 2022: 2022 special, Markwayne Mullin (Republican) won by 26.5 points"
  ]
 },
 "as_of": "2022",
 "as_of_label": "2022",
 "charts": [
  {
   "id": "senate-margin",
   "title": "Every regular Senate election in Oklahoma since 1978",
   "description": "16 regular elections; Democrats were ahead in 3 and Republicans in 13.",
   "indicator": "Democratic candidate's share of Senate votes minus the Republican's, points (regular elections; special elections are in the table)",
   "subtitle": "Democratic share minus Republican share, in points. Above the line: the Democrat got more votes.",
   "x": {
    "kind": "year"
   },
   "y": {
    "digits": 1,
    "unit": " pts",
    "format": "party-margin"
   },
   "layers": [
    {
     "type": "bars",
     "name": "Margin",
     "base": 0,
     "points": [
      [
       1978,
       32.627,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1980,
       -9.921,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1984,
       52.214,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1986,
       -10.43,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1990,
       66.35,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1992,
       -20.358,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1996,
       -16.604,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1998,
       -35.103,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2002,
       -20.992,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2004,
       -11.52,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2008,
       -17.496,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2010,
       -44.504,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2014,
       -39.459,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2016,
       -43.16,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2020,
       -30.158,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2022,
       -32.204,
       "rep"
      ]
     ],
     "legend": [
      {
       "label": "Democrat ahead",
       "cls": "dem"
      },
      {
       "label": "Republican ahead",
       "cls": "rep"
      }
     ]
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "limits": [
  "Statewide totals say nothing about who voted or why.",
  "Candidates with a party's support under another name (Minnesota's DFL, New York's fusion lines) are counted with that party, as the MIT data's simplified party does; independents stay independents."
 ],
 "method": "Each candidate's votes are summed over every ballot line; blank, over- and under-votes are left out. The margin is the winner's share of the votes minus the runner-up's. A runoff, where held, is the result.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "name": "electiondata.dev senate-results, version 2026-10-25.247421eda6",
   "url": "https://electiondata.dev/",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  },
  {
   "name": "MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. Senate statewide 1976-2024",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PEJ5QU",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  }
 ],
 "check": {
  "races": [
   {
    "year": 1978,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 754264,
    "votes": {
     "David Lyle Boren": 493953,
     "Robert B. Kamm": 247857,
     "Glenn E. Hager": 3875,
     "Riley Donica": 3355,
     "Paul Edward Trent": 3015,
     "Richard King Carter": 2209
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1980,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1098294,
    "votes": {
     "Don Nickles": 587252,
     "Andy Coats": 478283,
     "Charles Nesbitt": 21179,
     "Robert Murphy": 9757,
     "Paul E. Trent": 1823
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1984,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1197937,
    "votes": {
     "David Boren": 906131,
     "Will E. Bill Crozier": 280638,
     "Robert T. Murphy": 11168
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1986,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 893666,
    "votes": {
     "Don Nickles": 493436,
     "James R. Jones": 400230
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1990,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 884498,
    "votes": {
     "David L. Boren": 735684,
     "Stephen Jones": 148814
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1992,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1294423,
    "votes": {
     "Don Nickles": 757876,
     "Steve Lewis": 494350,
     "Roy V. Edwards": 21225,
     "Thomas D. Ledgerwood Ii": 20972
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1994,
    "special": true,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 982430,
    "votes": {
     "James M. Inhofe": 542390,
     "Dave Mccurdy": 392488,
     "Danny Corn": 47552
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1996,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1183150,
    "votes": {
     "James M. Inhofe": 670610,
     "Jim Boren": 474162,
     "Bill Maguire": 15092,
     "Agnes Marie Regier": 14595,
     "Chris Nedbalek": 8691
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1998,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 859713,
    "votes": {
     "Don Nickles": 570682,
     "Don E. Carroll": 268898,
     "Mike Morris": 15516,
     "Argus W. Yandell Jr.": 4617
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2002,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1018424,
    "votes": {
     "James M. Inhofe": 583579,
     "David Walters": 369789,
     "James Germalic": 65056
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2004,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1446846,
    "votes": {
     "Tom Coburn": 763433,
     "Brad Carson": 596750,
     "Sheila Bilyeu": 86663
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2008,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1346819,
    "votes": {
     "James M. Inhofe": 763375,
     "Andrew Rice": 527736,
     "Stephen P. Wallace": 55708
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2010,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1017151,
    "votes": {
     "Thomas A. Coburn": 718482,
     "Jim Rogers": 265814,
     "Stephen P. Wallace": 25048,
     "Ronald F. Dwyer": 7807
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2014,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 820733,
    "votes": {
     "James M. Inhofe": 558166,
     "Matt Silverstein": 234307,
     "Joan Farr": 10554,
     "Ray Woods": 9913,
     "Aaron Delozier": 7793
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2014,
    "special": true,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 820890,
    "votes": {
     "James Lankford": 557002,
     "Connie Johnson": 237923,
     "Mark T. Beard": 25965
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2016,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1448047,
    "votes": {
     "James Lankford": 980892,
     "Mike Workman": 355911,
     "Robert T. Murphy": 43421,
     "Sean Braddy": 40405,
     "Mark T. Beard": 27418
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2020,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1556361,
    "votes": {
     "Jim Inhofe": 979140,
     "Abby Broyles": 509763,
     "Robert Murphy": 34435,
     "Joan Farr": 21652,
     "A. D. Nesbit": 11371
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2022,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1150732,
    "votes": {
     "James Lankford": 739960,
     "Madison Horn": 369370,
     "Michael L. Delaney": 20907,
     "Kenneth D. Blevins": 20495
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2022,
    "special": true,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1150481,
    "votes": {
     "Markwayne Mullin": 710643,
     "Kendra Horn": 405389,
     "Robert Murphy": 17386,
     "Ray Woods": 17063
    }
   }
  ],
  "dataset": "senate-results",
  "version": "2026-10-25.247421eda6"
 },
 "table": {
  "title": "Every Senate race since 1976",
  "columns": [
   "Race",
   "Winner",
   "Runner-up",
   "Margin",
   "Votes"
  ],
  "num": [
   3,
   4
  ],
  "rows": [
   [
    "2022 special",
    "Markwayne Mullin (R) 61.8%",
    "Kendra Horn (D) 35.2%",
    "26.5 pts",
    "1,150,481"
   ],
   [
    "2022",
    "James Lankford (R) 64.3%",
    "Madison Horn (D) 32.1%",
    "32.2 pts",
    "1,150,732"
   ],
   [
    "2020",
    "Jim Inhofe (R) 62.9%",
    "Abby Broyles (D) 32.8%",
    "30.2 pts",
    "1,556,361"
   ],
   [
    "2016",
    "James Lankford (R) 67.7%",
    "Mike Workman (D) 24.6%",
    "43.2 pts",
    "1,448,047"
   ],
   [
    "2014 special",
    "James Lankford (R) 67.9%",
    "Connie Johnson (D) 29.0%",
    "38.9 pts",
    "820,890"
   ],
   [
    "2014",
    "James M. Inhofe (R) 68.0%",
    "Matt Silverstein (D) 28.5%",
    "39.5 pts",
    "820,733"
   ],
   [
    "2010",
    "Thomas A. Coburn (R) 70.6%",
    "Jim Rogers (D) 26.1%",
    "44.5 pts",
    "1,017,151"
   ],
   [
    "2008",
    "James M. Inhofe (R) 56.7%",
    "Andrew Rice (D) 39.2%",
    "17.5 pts",
    "1,346,819"
   ],
   [
    "2004",
    "Tom Coburn (R) 52.8%",
    "Brad Carson (D) 41.2%",
    "11.5 pts",
    "1,446,846"
   ],
   [
    "2002",
    "James M. Inhofe (R) 57.3%",
    "David Walters (D) 36.3%",
    "21.0 pts",
    "1,018,424"
   ],
   [
    "1998",
    "Don Nickles (R) 66.4%",
    "Don E. Carroll (D) 31.3%",
    "35.1 pts",
    "859,713"
   ],
   [
    "1996",
    "James M. Inhofe (R) 56.7%",
    "Jim Boren (D) 40.1%",
    "16.6 pts",
    "1,183,150"
   ],
   [
    "1994 special",
    "James M. Inhofe (R) 55.2%",
    "Dave Mccurdy (D) 40.0%",
    "15.3 pts",
    "982,430"
   ],
   [
    "1992",
    "Don Nickles (R) 58.5%",
    "Steve Lewis (D) 38.2%",
    "20.4 pts",
    "1,294,423"
   ],
   [
    "1990",
    "David L. Boren (D) 83.2%",
    "Stephen Jones (R) 16.8%",
    "66.4 pts",
    "884,498"
   ],
   [
    "1986",
    "Don Nickles (R) 55.2%",
    "James R. Jones (D) 44.8%",
    "10.4 pts",
    "893,666"
   ],
   [
    "1984",
    "David Boren (D) 75.6%",
    "Will E. Bill Crozier (R) 23.4%",
    "52.2 pts",
    "1,197,937"
   ],
   [
    "1980",
    "Don Nickles (R) 53.5%",
    "Andy Coats (D) 43.5%",
    "9.9 pts",
    "1,098,294"
   ],
   [
    "1978",
    "David Lyle Boren (D) 65.5%",
    "Robert B. Kamm (R) 32.9%",
    "32.6 pts",
    "754,264"
   ]
  ]
 },
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  "now": "/data/places/us-ok/senate.json",
  "source": "https://api.electiondata.dev/v1/senate-results/download/senate-results.csv",
  "source_label": "Every Senate race, every state, from electiondata.dev (live, no key)"
 },
 "generated_at": "2026-10-26T20:05:12+00:00"
}