There was a time the Democratic Party was the predominate block of voters in Oklahoma.
The demographics even 25 years ago had 1.112 million Democrats registered as opposed to only 624,000 Republicans.
Today that statewide trend is tipping the other way.
According to numbers from the Oklahoma Election Board, there are 1,008,569 registered Republicans and 738,256 registered Democrats.
In 1996, Okmulgee County had 17,088 Democrats compared with 3,535 Republicans and only 738 Independents.
That field has leveled out this year with 8,851 Democrats and 8,897 Republicans. There are 2,830 voters registered as Independent party members.
Even though for over 100 years the Democratic Party held the edge in Oklahoma, only seven Democratic candidates were able to carry the state vote. Four of those sieven wins went to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
The last time Democrats held sway was in 1964 when 519,834 votes were cast for Lyndon Johnson compared to 412,665 for Barry Goldwater.
Prior to that, only Harry Truman, Roosevelt and John W. Davis were able to get the most statewide votes in the past 100 years. Oklahoma kept Roosevelt in office from 1932 through the 1944 elections.
Prior to 1920, the state voted solidly Democratic starting with William Jennings Bryan in 1908 then twice for Woodrow Wilson in 1912 and 1916.