2022 OKC Mayoral Race

[Pete]

[Pete]

[Pete]

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Based on the current run-rate of election day votes plus the absentee and early voting, my projections show Holt winning about 59% of the vote.

[barrettd]

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Based on the current run-rate of election day votes plus the absentee and early voting, my projections show Holt winning about 59% of the vote.

Not disagreeing at all, but that seems low. Seems like he should get about 85% of the vote with the way he's led the city. All I really care is that he gets 50% +1.

[Pete]

[Pete]

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My projections still showing Holt will finish with 58-60% of the vote.

[April in the Plaza]

Not disagreeing at all, but that seems low. Seems like he should get about 85% of the vote with the way he's led the city. All I really care is that he gets 50% +1.

Not exactly. He lost a fair amount of progressive support over the JJ issue.

Should have probably said something, even if the crime allegedly happened in Edmond.

[HangryHippo]

Not exactly. He lost a fair amount of progressive support over the JJ issue.

Should have probably said something, even if the crime allegedly happened in Edmond.

The JJ issue?

[Pete]

My projections now showing Holt will finish with about 58% of the vote; certainly way more than the majority he needs to win outright.

[Plutonic Panda]

The JJ issue?

Julius Jones. Holt didn’t say anything so some people thought it would be a good idea to vote for someone else guaranteeing that if Holt did lose the winner would be someone who probably supported the execution of JJ.

[Pete]

[Pete]

Holt wins a 2nd term with ease:

[Pete]

All precincts have now reported:

[Thomas Vu]

Yeah, I think our election board needs to do a better job training the precinct workers on a lot of process, procedure, and etiquette. When I voted today, the poll worker was standing right next to the machine and looking at every single person's ballot as they put it in. That's not allowed.

I had that, and when I said my address didn't match what was in their book they told me to be quiet about that. I only moved a mile down the road, but still.

[KayneMo]

[soonerguru]

LMAO: Carol finished third, winning only two tiny precincts! She raised and spent a TON of money, too. All for 13% of the vote. This proves once again that her loony anti-mask antics and blatant racist appeals have very limited support in OKC. Also, trying to convince OKC residents that we live in a crime-riddled hellhole is a laughable basis for a campaign.

On a humorous note: she did a big campaign event in YUKON last week with Sheriff West. Real good closing strategy there! LOL.

[BDK]

Not exactly. He lost a fair amount of progressive support over the JJ issue.

Should have probably said something, even if the crime allegedly happened in Edmond.

This is just one person’s thought process, but I intentionally stayed home because I didn’t like Holt’s decision to refuse to debate. Obviously, Holt is far, far preferable to any of the “challengers,” and I understand his reasons for sitting out the debate. But I didn’t want to reward what I saw as anti-democratic behavior with my vote.

[LocoAko]

Biggest turnout in a mayoral election since 1959 in terms of absolute numbers and double the total number of votes since the last race. Even with a smaller win percentage and a third of votes going to far-right candidates, Holt has to be pretty happy with that level of support and turnout.

[king183]

Personally, I find it hilarious that Carol Hefner spent so much money on racist television ads and mis-spelled and illiterate mail pieces to come in a VERY distant third place. I guess we know with certainty whether Hefner’s consultants had intriguing polling results on MAPS (or anything else) or whether they were simply incompetent—an answer I think we likely had after seeing her mail pieces that couldn’t even get her name correct.

[TheSteveHunt]

fun race fellas

[soonerguru]

The numbers were quite good: winning 60% of the vote with three other challengers in the race, and beating the closest opponent by 40%, is a landslide election.

A very wise elder city leader once told me that in city races, "Anyone can put their hat in and get 15%." Well, it didn't pan out that way for Carol.

The other thing he said is that if there's a vote on an issue rather than a candidate, there will always be 35% who will say, "No." So that speaks highly of the MAPS brand when you consider that the last MAPS election also had high turnout and hit 74% support, eclipsing that negative threshold.

Frank Urbanic seemed to feature anti-MAPS sentiment for his campaign. And, four out of five voters voted for someone other than Frank Urbanic. Perhaps Midtowner was correct in saying this was just an attempt to garner name recognition for something else. Who knows?

Other politicians have tried to run against MAPS, such as Ed Shadid (who when he was initially elected explicitly did not run against MAPS). It was in his failed mayoral attempt and after trying to upend the streetcar that he did. After so many failed attempts by numerous politicians to run against MAPS, it's baffling that others continue that failed approach.

[Martin]

dumb question... what is the non-okc land just east of bethany? from the map, it looks like it's around sportsmans lake. is this unincorporated land like the stockyards?

[onthestrip]

dumb question... what is the non-okc land just east of bethany? from the map, it looks like it's around sportsmans lake. is this unincorporated land like the stockyards?

Is that Warr Acres?

[jerrywall]

dumb question... what is the non-okc land just east of bethany? from the map, it looks like it's around sportsmans lake. is this unincorporated land like the stockyards?

Isn't all that land part of what used to be the Sportsman club there?

[SEMIweather]

Isn't all that land part of what used to be the Sportsman club there?

Yes, if you look at the city limits on Google Maps you can see that’s what it is.