Oklahoma was bright red Tuesday night when voters chosen their officials for the next terms of offi ces. Republicans will hold all the major offices in the state. All precincts reported heavy turnout.

In the Governor’s seat will be Kevin Stitt who beat Drew Edmondson (Dem) and Chris Powell (Lib) by earning 54.34% of the statewide votes. Locally he received the majority votes in all precincts. Pontotoc County Allen gave Stitt 183 votes to Edmondson’s 113 and Powell’s 7. Hughes County’s Allen voters carried Stitt, 95 to 50 and 4; Atwood gave Stitt 101 votes to Edmondson’s 45 and Powell’s 10; Calvin division was 156 to 58 and 7; Stuart posted 107 to 81 and 8; and Gerty voters totaled 168 to 40 and 7.

In the Lieutenant Governor’s office will be Matt Pinnell who won over Anastasia Pittman and Ivan Holmes with 61.90% statewide; in the position of State Auditor and Inspector will be Cindy Byrd with 75.18% of statewide votes over John Yeutter, 24.82%. Mike Hunter will hold the seat of Attorney General with 64.04% of votes over Mark Myles; State Treasurer will be Randy McDaniel (71.59%) over independent candidate Charles deCoune. Joy Hofmeister retained her position of Superintendent of Public Instruction with 58.52% of the votes over John Cox and Larry Huff.

The State Questions failed with the exception of SQ#794, Marsy’s Law, which will give victims the right to know of, attend and be heard at parole hearings, and be notified of release or escape.

Of more local interest for Hughes County voters, Republican MarkWayne Mullins retained his US House seat (District 02), but Democrat Donnie Condit will be giving his Oklahoma House seat (District 18) to Republican David Smith with a 48.41% to 51.58% vote margin.

The Hughes County race for Associate District Judge between Robert L. “Trey” Irby and Trisha Smith showed Smith the winner with 1,974 votes to 1,711; and Tommy Peak defeated incumbent Joe Moore for County Commissioner District 3, 770 votes to 666.

Allen voters in Pontotoc County agreed with the statewide vote on all issues and offices. Incumbent republican Tom Cole will retain his seat in the US House (District 04), winning with 149,339 votes over democrat Mary Brannon with 78,022 and independent Ruby Peters’ 9,310 votes.

Of more local interest was the hard-fought battle for Oklahoma House District 25 Seat between republican Ronny Johns, democrat Danny Manuel, and independent Gary Rhynes. Johns won the seat with 5,848 votes (49.30%), over Manuel’s 5,441 (45.87%) and Rhynes 573 (4.83%),

Both counties were in the count for the position of District Attorney which retained republican Paul B. Smith over challenger democrat Joshua Edwards.