United States presidential election in Oklahoma, 2016 (Ferguson Scenario)



The 2016 United States presidential election in Oklahoma took place on November 8, 2016. All fifty states and the District of Columbia were part of the 2016 United States presidential election. Oklahoma voters chose seven electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice-President.

Incumbent President Henry T. Ferguson of Texas, the Democratic Party candidate, won Oklahoma with an 11.50 percent margin of victory against Senator William H. Pryor, Jr. of Alabama, winning its seven electoral votes. Oklahoma had been a generally Republican state since 1952, only voting Democratic in 1964, 2000, and 2004 since that election. In 2016, a majority of voters rejected the staunchly conservative Pryor, who was portrayed as a right-wing extremist, and defected to the more moderate Ferguson.

In typical fashion for the state, Ferguson overwhelmingly won Little Dixie, the most Democratic region of the state, carrying every county with over 60% of the vote. Pryor performed strongly in the Oklahoma Panhandle, the state's most Republican region. Pryor was able to hold Ferguson under 60% in most of the counties that he won in this region, except for Osage County and several of the counties east to Tulsa. As for the major urban areas, Ferguson carried Oklahoma County, home of Oklahoma City, 51%-49%, while Pryor carried Tulsa County 50%-50%. As a result, Oklahoma weighed in as 10.79 percentage points more Republican than the national average.