(AP Photo/J Pat Carter)
With more than 91% of Oklahoma’s precincts reporting late Tuesday night, Republican Brian Bingman had a strong lead in winning the Oklahoma Corporation Commission seat.
The former state Senate President pro tempore will replace long time commissioner Bob Anthony in January of 2025.
Bingman had amassed 885,801 votes out of the total of 1,379,447 votes that had been cast in the election. As of late last night, it represented 64.21% of the total votes.
His closest competitor was 80-year old Democrat Harold Spradling, who once ran as a Republican for the Corporation Commission. Spradling picked up 392,938 votes or 28.495 of the votes counted as of 9:30 p.m.
Libertarian Chad Williams received 100,708 votes or 7.30% of those counted late in the evening.
The first column represented the number of absentee votes.
The second column was early voting. The third column was election day voting. The final column was the total votes for the candidates.
| CHAD WILLIAMS (LIB) | 6,343 | 16,016 | 78,349 | 100,708 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J. BRIAN BINGMAN (REP) | 50,540 | 187,736 | 647,525 | 885,801 |
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| HAROLD D SPRADLING (DEM) | 43,727 | 82,782 | 266,429 | 392,938 |
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| Total | 100,610 | 286,534 | 992,303 | 1,379,447 |
Bingman will join Corporation Commissioners Kim David and Todd Hiett who are also Republicans.
His election means that all three of the regulators are from around Tulsa and the northeastern part of the state. It also means the Corporation Commission will be made up of legislative leaders who were term-limited in the House and Senate.