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2026 Oklahoma Senate election

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ135959610 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2026 Oklahoma Senate election will be held on November 3, 2026, alongside the other 2026 United States elections. Voters will elect half the members of the Oklahoma Senate in the U.S. state of Oklahoma to serve a two-year term.

Retirements

Republicans

District 17: Shane Jett is term limited.

District 18: Jack Stewart lost his August runoff primary election.

District 24: Darrell Weaver is retiring to run for Lt. Governor.

District 26: Darcy Jech is term limited.

District 32: Dusty Deevers lost his June primary election.

District 34: Dana Prieto lost his August runoff primary election.

District 38: Brent Howard is retiring.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2026 Oklahoma Senate election” is open-knowledge reference entry. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Oklahoma, Senate and election, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2026—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Oklahoma, Senate and election is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “2026 Oklahoma Senate election” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.