Ryan Walters, who oversees public schools in Oklahoma, did not say how the new Office of Religious Liberty and Patriotism would be funded.
Iowa, a state with a similar number of people eligible to vote, had a turnout rate of 71% compared to Oklahoma's 53.4%. Iowa had a 20-day early voting window when voters in the state could vote at their county auditor's office or by mail.
Leisa Mitchell Haynes, a Republican candidate for governor, said she began 2026 campaign after visit from an angel.
More Oklahomans voted in the presidential election than in any previous election in state history, the State Election Board secretary says.
According to unofficial election results, Oklahomans cast 1,564,573 ballots for president this year. That's nearly 4,000 more votes than were cast in the previous presidential election. Registration also grew by 183,098 since 2020, reaching almost 2.5 million Oklahomans who were eligible to vote.
Despite a record vote count, Oklahoma's turnout and voter participation rates were actually lower than four years ago.
For the third time in a row, Trump won all 77 counties in Oklahoma. Some of the state's bigger counties, like Oklahoma County, had narrow margins.
Republicans appeared on track to maintain, if not expand, their supermajority in the Oklahoma House of Representatives after Tuesday's general election. As votes are being tallied, unofficial election results show GOP candidates winning 23 of the 32 ...
Memes making the rounds on social media are celebrating Oklahoma as the "perfect state" after President-elect Donald Trump received the majority of votes in every county. Even Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt reposted a map on Facebook that shows the Sooner State ...
Oklahoma voted Republican for another election cycle and was one of two states where every county turned red in the presidential election.
The FBI released a statement in regard to a video which uses the Bureau's name and seal to promote false claims that the organization was involved in an attempt to poison electors from several states,
Two men died in separate vehicle crashes in eastern Oklahoma on Saturday night and early Sunday, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.