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Oklahoma runoff, August 25, 2026

Labor commissioner

Republican runoff
Polls close 8:00 PM ET
Too close to call, ahead
53.2%Kevin West+6.4 over Pfeiffer
Votes counted
24,240of about 362,793 expected
Share of expected vote in
6.7%0 of 1,984 precincts have reported
Lead holds
68%modeled from the margin and 6.7% counted, not a poll

The field

2 on the ballot, ordered by vote.

Kevin West53.2%12,895 votes
John Pfeiffer46.8%11,345 votes

How the vote was cast

Of the 24,240 votes counted so far, 24,240 come with the ballot type published. Mail ballots are usually counted first and election-day ballots last, so a lead built on one can move as the others land. Each bar below is that way of voting on its own: who won it, and by how much.

Ballots counted so far, by type
Mail and absentee32.3%7,838 votesEarly in person67.7%16,402 votes
Mail and absentee7,838 votes, 32% of the count
West54.1%4,241Pfeiffer45.9%3,597
West won mail and absentee ballots by 8.2 points over Pfeiffer.
Early in person16,402 votes, 68% of the count
West52.8%8,654Pfeiffer47.2%7,748
West won early in person ballots by 5.5 points over Pfeiffer.

Registered voters across the counties in this race: 2,423,022 in total, 613,545 Democratic, 1,290,376 Republican, 495,560 unaffiliated or other. Registration is the whole electorate, not the primary electorate, so it sets the scale rather than predicting the result.

What is left to count

0 of 77 counties finished, 58 reporting anything. About 338,553 votes still outstanding, concentrated here.

Where the vote is coming from

Shaded for whoever leads each county, deeper where the margin is wider. Click one to pin it below.

WestPfeifferNot yet reporting

19 of 77 counties have not reported a vote yet, so they are left unshaded. Nothing is missing from the map: every county in the state is drawn, and each one fills in as its first results land.

Every county

77 counties in this race. 19 counties have counted nothing yet. Click any of them to break it down above.

Returns from Decision Desk HQ. Percentages are shares of this contest. Where a county reports no precinct count, progress is its vote against the expected total instead. Lead confidence reflects how much of the vote is still out, not a poll. Unofficial until certified.