The primary runoff and the Tulsa City Council election was held on Tuesday, August 25th.

The runoff election featured the Governor Republican primary runoff between Gentner Drummond and Mike Mazzei.  It was a hotly contested race with much mud slinging and a very close one as well.  Drummond captured 184,681 votes to Mazzei’s 186,734 votes.  The contest was decided by only 2,053 votes statewide out of 371,415 votes cast.  Mazzei came up with 50.28% of the vote, while Drummond had 49.72%.   Mazzei will now face  Democrat Cyndi Munson, and  three Independents Jerry Griffin, Robert E. Brooks and Orlando Lynn Bush in the General Election Nov. 3rd.

The Superintendent of Public Instruction Republican runoff pitted Robert Franklin of Sand Springs against Dr. James Taylor. Franklin won with 54.63% or 197,069 votes while Taylor earned 163, 662 votes or 45.37% of the vote.  Franklin will face the winner of the Democrat primary Jennettie Marshall of Tulsa in the general election.

Rep. Kevin West and Rep. John Pfeffer came out of the primary into the Republican runoff election for the Commission of Labor.   West won the runoff election with 58.28% or 204,001 votes, while Pfeiffer came up with 41.72% or 146,014 votes.  West came up with the biggest win in the State offices in the runoff.  He will face Democrat Kevin Dawson and Libertarian Mike Hall in November.

The remaining Republican runoff for state office featured Bob Sullivan and Marty L. Quinn in the Insurance Commissioner race.  Sullivan won 55.13% of the vote and Quinn earned 44.87%.  194,975 votes to 158, 672 respectively.  Sullivan will face Democrat Craig MacIntyre in November.

Three out of the four state level offices were won by the candidate that had the most votes in the primary.  Only Drummond lost the runoff in which he was ahead in the primary voting.

The lone Democrat state wide runoff was for United State Senator.  N’Kiyla Jasmine Thomas faced Jim Priest in the runoff and won with whopping 61.19% of the vote, 69,539 votes versus Priest’s 38.81%, 50,249 votes. Thomas is Democrat Socialist and she will face Republican U.S. Rep. Kevin Hern, Libertarian Sevier White and Independents Ron Meinhardt and Curtis Stinnett in the November general election.

There were two state-wide questions on the ballot eligible to be voted on by all voters.  State Question (SQ) 844 did not pass. The no vote was 73.74%, or 389,886 votes to the Yes vote of 26.26% or 138, 814 votes.  This was the SQ about allowing the legislature to set funding formulas for state reimbursements to counties, libraries and schools.

SQ 846 was to put Voter ID into the State Constitution and passed with 54.51% of the vote, or 292,599 votes.

In Tulsa County Drummond won over Mazzei by just 261 votes out of the 56,903 votes cast.  Franklin beat Taylor with 54.33% of the vote or by 4,751 votes .West won over Pfeiffer with 57.90% and a difference of 8,292 votes. Sullivan defeated Quin by 56.53% or by 6,983 votes.

SQ 844 lost in Tulsa County with a 72.03% vote No and 27.97% vote Yes, a difference of 38,915 votes.  However SQ 846 (Voter ID) which won state wide, was defeated in Tulsa County  by a narrow margin of 3,075 votes.

There were two runoffs for the state legislative contingent in Tulsa County.

Incumbent Sen. Dana Prieto was defeated by Aaron Forst in the Republican runoff for Senate District 34.  Forst won with 65.06% of the vote, or 3,407 votes of the 5,237 cast.  He will face Democrat Amy Hossain in November.

The State Representative District 9 Republican runoff was a very close race won only by 102 votes with 4,606 votes cast. Scotty Stokes won this nail biter and will face Democrat Andrea Biscardi in November.

Five of the six Tulsa City Council districts were decided on August 25, and one will go to a runoff in the November 3rd general election.

District 1 will go to a runoff with Incumbent Vanessa Hall-Harper facing Corinice Wilson.   Hall-Harper won 1,940 votes or 45.90% and Wilson earned 1,548 votes or 36.62% in the five candidate field. they were the only two candidates with double digit percentages.

Anthony Archie bested Aaron L Bisogno in the District 2 matchup with Archie winning 75.21% of the vote and garnering 2,895 votes of the 3,849 vote total.

District 3 saw incumbent Jackie Dutton win over challenger Tanisha Bowen with 55.89% of the vote and winning by only 268 votes out of the 2,274 votes cast.

The  District 5 race pitted incumbent Karen Gilbert against Adam Burnett.  Gilbert won with 57.90% to Burnett’s 42.10%. Gilbert won 2,658 votes out of the total of 4,591 votes in the race.

There were three candidates in the District 7 race with incumbent Lori Dector Wright convincingly winning over Dave Perry and Kenny Wogoman.  Wright won with 57.36%, with Perry coming in at 35.55% and Wogoman earning 7.10% of the vote. wright won 2,756 votes out of the total of 4,805 votes.

There was no incumbent in the District 9 race which drew three candidates.  Pete Regan beat out Ben Johnson and Shawn Tiemann for the Council seat with a total of 6,339 votes or 68.78% of the vote.  Johnson garnered 2,310 votes and Tiemann 568.

The City of Tulsa Proposition for approval of the ONG Natural Gas Franchise won with a Yes vote of 31,233 votes or 62.71%.

The City of Bixby had four bond proposals that were voted on.

Proposition 1  was for a new fire station, an animal shelter and  an emergency Operations headquarters and barely passed with 51.91% of the total vote of 4,806.

Proposition 2 is for repairing and rehabilitating  roads and passed easily with 63.26% of the 4,801 votes.

Proposition 3 is for improving Bentley park.   It was passed with 52.67% of the 4,733 voters.

Proposition 4  is to expand the wastewater system.  The proposition was passed with 60.78% of the 4,793 voters.