House Speaker Charles McCall was overwhelmingly re-elected speaker-designate for the 59th Oklahoma Legislature by the House Republican Caucus.

First elected speaker in 2016 for the 56th Legislature, McCall, R-Atoka, is already Oklahoma’s longest-serving Republican speaker and is now on track to become the longest-serving speaker in state history.

The 59th Legislature will be seated after November’s elections and convene for its first session in 2023.

It will be McCall’s fourth term as speaker. Under its rules, the majority caucus nominates the speaker-designate for the upcoming Legislature through a caucus election the first Monday in March during election years.

He was elected in 2012 as the first GOP in state history to represent House District 22, which encompasses portions of Atoka, Garvin, Johnston and Murray counties.