All racesOklahoma U.S. SenateFEED 8:09 PM ET, 0s AGO
Oklahoma runoff, August 25, 2026

U.S. Senate

Democratic runoff
Polls close 8:00 PM ET
Leading
58.3%N'Kiyla Thomas+16.6 over Priest
Votes counted
11,369of about 118,229 expected
Share of expected vote in
9.6%0 of 1,984 precincts have reported
Lead holds
89%modeled from the margin and 9.6% counted, not a poll

The field

2 on the ballot, ordered by vote.

N'Kiyla Thomas58.3%6,628 votes
Jim Priest41.7%4,741 votes

How the vote was cast

Of the 11,369 votes counted so far, 11,369 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 absentee48.4%5,500 votesEarly in person51.6%5,869 votes
Mail and absentee5,500 votes, 48% of the count
Thomas57.1%3,139Priest42.9%2,361
Thomas won mail and absentee ballots by 14.1 points over Priest.
Early in person5,869 votes, 52% of the count
Thomas59.4%3,489Priest40.6%2,380
Thomas won early in person ballots by 18.9 points over Priest.

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, 54 reporting anything. About 106,860 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.

ThomasPriestNot yet reporting

23 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. 23 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.