The race to be Oklahoma's next governor is narrowed down to three candidates.
Attorney General Gentner Drummond and former State Senator Mike Mazzei emerged as the top two finishers in a nine candidate Republican field and will meet in a runoff on August 25th. Drummond received 26.3% of the vote with Mazzei receiving 26%, with Drummond receiving 105,787 votes to Mazzei's 104,629. State Representative Cyndi Munson won the Democratic nomination with almost 75% of the vote and advances to the November general election where she will face either Drummond or Mazzei.
In other statewide races T.W. Shannon won the republican nomination for lieutenant governor with 53.8% of the vote. Republican Jon Echols secured his party's nomination for attorney general and will face Democrat Nick Coffey in November. The race for state superintendent will be decided in an August 25th Republican runoff between Robert Franklin and James Taylor. On the Democratic side, Pastor and Former Tulsa School Board Member Jennettie Marshall won her party's nomination and will advance to the general election. State Question 832, which would have raised minimum wage to $15 an hour failed with 348,120 no votes to 280,510 yes votes.
