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2026 Oklahoma Senate race

Five candidates are on the November 3, 2026 ballot for U.S. Senate in Oklahoma, as recorded September 21, 2026 from the Oklahoma State Election Board.

The November ballot

Thomas
$57K
Hern
$10M

Raised so far, filed with the FEC

Also in this race: Sevier White (Libertarian), Ron Meinhardt (Independent) and Curtis Stinnett (Independent).

Official candidate list: Oklahoma State Election Board. Faces and bars are the campaigns that hold the seat or have $25,000 raised or outside spending on file; being outside that group is a filing fact, not a mark. Not a prediction.

The seat

Alan Armstrong

Republican · Holds the seat now

First took office 2026 · Age 64

Not on the November ballot

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How to vote in Oklahoma

  • General electionNovember 3, 2026 

Register 25 days before the election.

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How they won the primary

First round · 168,896 votes

  • N'Kiyla Jasmine Thomas: 45.2% 76,330
  • Jim Priest: 23.9% 40,290
  • Troy Green: 19.8% 33,492
  • Ervin Yen: 6.7% 11,363
  • R.O. Joe Cassity Jr.: 4.4% 7,421

The runoff · 129,478 votes

  • N'Kiyla Jasmine Thomas Won: 61.2% 79,229
  • Jim Priest: 38.8% 50,249

Primary source: Oklahoma State Election Board official primary results. Runoff source: Oklahoma State Election Board official primary-runoff results.

Primary results as recorded October 12, 2026, ordered by votes. A primary result is a recorded fact about a past contest, not a prediction of November.

The money on this race

Raised by candidates
$10M
Outside money
$2.6M

Outside money, for and against

Supporting Thomas-
Opposing Thomas-
Supporting Hern$2.6M
Opposing Hern-

Independent expenditures; direction is each filer's own declared filing. No outside money is on file for or against the other 3 names on this ballot.

Where each candidate's money comes from

1%$134KSmall donors$41K72%
10%$977KLarge donors$15K27%
7%$700KPACs--
<1%$62KParty--
51%$5MSelf-funding--
30%$3MOther$7391%

Small donors give $200 or less; PACs are political action committees. Shares of each candidate's own receipts on file with the FEC. Outside money is not part of these figures.

Other includes money transferred in from committees the candidate authorized, such as a joint fundraising committee, which reports its own donors to the FEC: Kevin Hern $3.0M.

Who is spending on this race

The largest groups spending independently here, ranked; open a row for whose race the money went into.

1 to 5 of 7 groups

Independent expenditures reported to the FEC; direction is each group's own declared filing.

Not on the November ballot

15 filed

Primary candidates who did not advance, committees still on file, and candidacies that ended. Being here is a filing fact, not a mark against anyone.

How this seat voted last time

R+27 in 2022

  • Markwayne Mullin Won: 61.8%
  • Kendra Horn: 35.2%

1,150,481 votes for candidates. It was a special election for the rest of the term, held November 8, 2022. Other candidates and write-ins took the remaining 3.0%. A past result is a filed fact, not a prediction of November.

Certified returns via MIT Election Data and Science Lab, from the House Clerk's election statistics and state canvasses.

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Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain. Candidate totals are each campaign's latest FEC report, ending between June 30, 2026 and August 5, 2026. Outside money is the FEC's processed total of independent expenditures plus the 24- and 48-hour reports filed since each group's latest regular report. It covers each candidate's own campaign: the years since their previous federal election, up to the six their totals cover. Dataset built 2026-10-12. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.