Senator Marlatt
Jerry Bohnen
Contributing Editor
The voters of northwest Oklahoma must think Republican Senator Bryce Marlatt is doing a good job in the Legislature because they gave him 84% of the votes cast in the District 27 race. It was the highest percentage of support for any of the legislative races decided on Tuesday.
Marlatt, who is from Woodward. received 84.5% of the votes, easily beating Independent Tommy Nicholson. How bad was it? Senator Marlatt received 1,126 of the absentee votes while Nicholson had 201. Election day voting favored Marlatt 18,808 to 3,470.
Only two other races came close to the percentage received by Marlatt but neither was in the 80 percentile range. District 42 Representative Lisa Billy, a Republican from Purcell, won re-election with 79.8% in her race with Democratic challenger Steven Vines. And Edmond Senator Clark Jolley had 79.4% in his win over Independent challenger Richard Prawdzienski.
