ELECTORAL VOTES 7

2012 ELECTION Safe Republican

ABOUT
OKLAHOMA

2010 Census Reapportionment: Oklahoma will remain at 7 electoral votes for the 2012, 2016 and 2020 presidential elections.



Oklahoma gained statehood in November 1907. The state voted Democratic in all but two elections through 1948, but has not gone Democratic since, except in the landslide win for Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Already fairly populous when admitted to the Union, the state had seven electoral votes in the 1908 election, the first in which it participated. No state outside the original 13 colonies, except Maine, started with more. In 2008, John McCain defeated Barack Obama by 66% to 34%, the same percentage results as the 2004 election. In both cases, it was the largest margin of victory for any candidate in a state where more than one million votes were cast.