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Mary Fallin (/ ˈ f æ l ɪ n /; née Copeland; born December 9, 1954) [1] is an American politician who served as the 27th governor of Oklahoma from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, she was elected in 2010 and reelected in 2014. She is the first and only woman to be elected governor of Oklahoma.
Incumbent Governor Mary Fallin was re-elected with 55.8% of the vote over state representative Joe Dorman. Primaries were held on June 24, 2014. Primaries were held on June 24, 2014. Fallin won the Republican nomination with more than 75% of the vote, and Dorman won the Democratic nomination uncontested.
Incumbent Republican governor Mary Fallin was term-limited, and was prohibited by the Constitution of Oklahoma from seeking another gubernatorial term. Republican Businessman Kevin Stitt was elected elected with 54.3% of the vote, defeating Democratic nominee and former Oklahoma attorney general Drew Edmondson.
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Governor Mary Fallin sought a second term. Fallin was elected with 60.1% of the vote in 2010. 2010 Republican Party Gubernatorial candidate Randy Brogdon ran again. State Representative Joe Dorman is the only Democratic candidate who ran. Fallin won re-election to a second term.
As both parties nominated female candidates (Jari Askins for the Democrats and Mary Fallin for the Republicans), both of whom have also previously held the office of the lieutenant governor of Oklahoma, and as no third-party or write-in candidate qualified for the ballot, Oklahoma was guaranteed its first female governor. In 2008, Republicans ...
Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory were combined and admitted to the Union as the State of Oklahoma on November 16, 1907. [21]The Constitution of Oklahoma calls for the election of a governor every four years, to take office on the second Monday in January after the election. [22]
In 2006, he launched a campaign to succeed Mary Fallin as the Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma. Hiett lost the 2006 race to the Democratic nominee Jari Askins. In 2014, Hiett was elected to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission and he was reelected in 2020. In April 2019 his fellow commissioners elected him chairman of the commission.