They had no challengers step up, so they will be declared 'duly elected' to the 2021 legislature.
The very surreal filing process of the 2020 state election board has completed, as of 5pm, today. It was the lowest turnout in decades.
This week was nothing like the very heated primary contesting that took place in 2018, when several members of the House republican leadership recruited & funded challengers to run against fiscal conservatives who resisted the largest tax increases in Oklahoma history. This was the day we found out if the brokered truce within the Republican House Caucus is going to be honored. By all accounts that agreement will hold up. the remaining members of the 2018 Platform Caucus (Sean Roberts, Kevin West, Tom Gann, & Tommy Hardin) were unopposed in both the primary and general elections. Today was their election day! Likewise, Josh West, who helped orchestrate the 2018 primary fights, was also unopposed, this week; as was Speaker Charles McCall.
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