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Oklahoma is a state in the South Central region of the United States. Since it first joined the United States in 1907, Oklahoma has participated in 29 presidential elections. It was initially granted seven electoral votes, gaining three following the 1910 census. It was given an additional vote in the 1930 census, which it later lost in the 1940 census. The state's electoral votes were reduced to eight votes in the 1950 census before returning to its original seven following the 2000 census.
In the 1960 election, Republican candidates Richard Nixon and Henry C. Lodge won Oklahoma. However, elector Henry D. Irwin decided to cast a faithless vote for Harry F. Byrd and Barry Goldwater. The state later passed a law that would invalidate any votes cast by, and issue a fine to, faithless electors.
Oklahoma initially vacillated between voting Democrat and Republican, but it has recently come to be considered a safely red state. Republicans having won every single Oklahoma county since the 2004 presidential election. The last Democrat to win the state was Lyndon B. Johnson in his 1964 landslide victory. Oklahoma was last considered a swing state during the presidential campaigns of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.
Republicans have won the White House without winning Oklahoma only twice: William H. Taft in 1908 and Calvin Coolidge in 1924. Democrats have won without the state eight times, the most recent in Joe Biden's election in 2020.

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