1922 Oklahoma gubernatorial election
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The 1922 Oklahoma gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1922, and was a race for Governor of Oklahoma. Democrat Jack C. Walton defeated Republican John Fields. Also on the ballot was O. E. Enfield of the Socialist Party.[1]
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November 7, 1922
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 County results Walton: 40â50% 50â60% 60â70% 70â80% 80â90% Fields: 40â50% 50â60% 60â70% | |||||||||||||||||
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Primary election
Democratic party
Oklahoma City Mayor Jack Walton came out ahead of four others to claim the Democratic nomination for Governor.
Candidates
- Arthur Finn
- Thomas H. Owen, justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court
- J. C. Walton, mayor of Oklahoma City
- R. H. Wilson, Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction
- Frank Ziska
Results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Jack Walton | 119,248 | 44.24% | |
| Democratic | R. H. Wilson | 84,320 | 31.28% | |
| Democratic | Thomas H. Owen | 63,915 | 23.71% | |
| Democratic | Arthur Finn | 1,206 | 0.45% | |
| Democratic | Frank Ziska | 849 | 0.32% | |
| Total votes | 269,538 | 100.00% | ||
Republican party
John Fields defeated George H. Healy to win the GOP nomination,
Candidates
- John Fields
- George H. Healy
Results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | John Fields | 80,565 | 91.75% | |
| Republican | George H. Healy | 7,244 | 8.25% | |
| Total votes | 87,809 | 100.00% | ||
Socialist party
Candidates
- O. E. Enfield
Results
General election
Results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | J. C. Walton | 280,206 | 54.45% | +0.89% | |
| Republican | John Fields | 230,469 | 44.78% | +2.17% | |
| Socialist | O. E. Enfield | 3,941 | 0.77% | â3.06% | |
| Total votes | 514,616 | 100.00% | |||
| Majority | 49,737 | 9.66% | |||
| Democratic hold | Swing | -1.27% | |||
Results by county
Fields was the first Republican to win Cimarron County, Osage County, and Texas County. Cimarron County would not vote Republican again until 1962 and would not fail to back the winning candidate again until 1978.
| County[5] | J. C. Walton Democratic |
John Fields Republican |
O. E. Enfield Socialist |
Margin | Total votes cast | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Adair | 2,470 | 56.15% | 1,901 | 43.21% | 28 | 0.64% | 569 | 12.93% | 4,399 |
| Alfalfa | 1,659 | 35.04% | 3,025 | 63.90% | 50 | 1.06% | -1,366 | -28.86% | 4,734 |
| Atoka | 3,623 | 63.97% | 2,022 | 35.70% | 19 | 0.34% | 1,601 | 28.27% | 5,664 |
| Beaver | 1,408 | 42.18% | 1,885 | 56.47% | 45 | 1.35% | -477 | -14.29% | 3,338 |
| Beckham | 3,109 | 64.08% | 1,690 | 34.83% | 53 | 1.09% | 1,419 | 29.25% | 4,852 |
| Blaine | 2,314 | 44.45% | 2,807 | 53.92% | 85 | 1.63% | -493 | -9.47% | 5,206 |
| Bryan | 6,545 | 80.67% | 1,543 | 19.02% | 25 | 0.31% | 5,002 | 61.65% | 8,113 |
| Caddo | 5,075 | 52.32% | 4,496 | 46.35% | 129 | 1.33% | 579 | 5.97% | 9,700 |
| Canadian | 3,680 | 49.42% | 3,708 | 49.79% | 59 | 0.79% | -28 | -0.38% | 7,447 |
| Carter | 6,449 | 65.25% | 3,344 | 33.84% | 90 | 0.91% | 3,105 | 31.42% | 9,883 |
| Cherokee | 3,089 | 55.03% | 2,489 | 44.34% | 35 | 0.62% | 600 | 10.69% | 5,613 |
| Choctaw | 3,928 | 71.16% | 1,566 | 28.37% | 26 | 0.47% | 2,362 | 42.79% | 5,520 |
| Cimarron | 738 | 49.30% | 743 | 49.63% | 16 | 1.07% | -5 | -0.33% | 1,497 |
| Cleveland | 3,200 | 58.83% | 2,185 | 40.17% | 54 | 0.99% | 1,015 | 18.66% | 5,439 |
| Coal | 2,793 | 67.46% | 1,335 | 32.25% | 12 | 0.29% | 1,458 | 35.22% | 4,140 |
| Comanche | 4,131 | 58.64% | 2,853 | 40.50% | 61 | 0.87% | 1,278 | 18.14% | 7,045 |
| Cotton | 2,665 | 64.67% | 1,434 | 34.80% | 22 | 0.53% | 1,231 | 29.87% | 4,121 |
| Craig | 3,048 | 55.55% | 2,417 | 44.05% | 22 | 0.40% | 631 | 11.50% | 5,487 |
| Creek | 6,989 | 46.08% | 8,075 | 53.24% | 102 | 0.67% | -1,086 | -7.16% | 15,166 |
| Custer | 3,006 | 48.46% | 3,116 | 50.23% | 81 | 1.31% | -110 | -1.77% | 6,203 |
| Delaware | 2,167 | 56.34% | 1,657 | 43.08% | 22 | 0.57% | 510 | 13.26% | 3,846 |
| Dewey | 1,786 | 50.00% | 1,638 | 45.86% | 148 | 4.14% | 148 | 4.14% | 3,572 |
| Ellis | 1,266 | 42.10% | 1,637 | 54.44% | 104 | 3.46% | -371 | -12.34% | 3,007 |
| Garfield | 5,324 | 41.93% | 7,267 | 57.23% | 107 | 0.84% | -1,943 | -15.30% | 12,698 |
| Garvin | 4,825 | 72.61% | 1,768 | 26.61% | 52 | 0.78% | 3,057 | 46.00% | 6,645 |
| Grady | 5,236 | 64.01% | 2,891 | 35.34% | 53 | 0.65% | 2,345 | 28.68% | 8,180 |
| Grant | 1,971 | 38.19% | 3,161 | 61.25% | 29 | 0.56% | -1,190 | -23.06% | 5,161 |
| Greer | 2,208 | 71.60% | 862 | 27.95% | 14 | 0.45% | 1,346 | 43.64% | 3,084 |
| Harmon | 1,578 | 74.86% | 502 | 23.81% | 28 | 1.33% | 1,076 | 51.04% | 2,108 |
| Harper | 1,199 | 49.63% | 1,203 | 49.79% | 14 | 0.58% | -4 | -0.17% | 2,416 |
| Haskell | 3,516 | 65.14% | 1,869 | 34.62% | 13 | 0.24% | 1,647 | 30.51% | 5,398 |
| Hughes | 4,067 | 65.49% | 2,105 | 33.90% | 38 | 0.61% | 1,962 | 31.59% | 6,210 |
| Jackson | 2,820 | 66.40% | 1,371 | 32.28% | 56 | 1.32% | 1,449 | 34.12% | 4,247 |
| Jefferson | 2,636 | 69.06% | 1,139 | 29.84% | 42 | 1.10% | 1,497 | 39.22% | 3,817 |
| Johnston | 3,617 | 77.85% | 1,003 | 21.59% | 26 | 0.56% | 2,614 | 56.26% | 4,646 |
| Kay | 4,582 | 43.76% | 5,841 | 55.79% | 47 | 0.45% | -1,259 | -12.02% | 10,470 |
| Kingfisher | 2,545 | 46.83% | 2,864 | 52.70% | 26 | 0.48% | -319 | -5.87% | 5,435 |
| Kiowa | 3,554 | 58.11% | 2,477 | 40.50% | 85 | 1.39% | 1,077 | 17.61% | 6,116 |
| Latimer | 2,245 | 63.40% | 1,282 | 36.20% | 14 | 0.40% | 963 | 27.20% | 3,541 |
| Le Flore | 5,820 | 63.36% | 3,325 | 36.20% | 41 | 0.45% | 2,495 | 27.16% | 9,186 |
| Lincoln | 3,812 | 46.81% | 4,269 | 52.43% | 62 | 0.76% | -457 | -5.61% | 8,143 |
| Logan | 3,099 | 38.03% | 4,992 | 61.27% | 57 | 0.70% | -1,893 | -23.23% | 8,148 |
| Love | 2,112 | 87.27% | 301 | 12.44% | 7 | 0.29% | 1,811 | 74.83% | 2,420 |
| Major | 1,181 | 38.26% | 1,774 | 57.47% | 132 | 4.28% | -593 | -19.21% | 3,087 |
| Marshall | 2,416 | 77.59% | 664 | 21.32% | 34 | 1.09% | 1,752 | 56.26% | 3,114 |
| Mayes | 2,764 | 55.73% | 2,172 | 43.79% | 24 | 0.48% | 592 | 11.94% | 4,960 |
| McClain | 2,623 | 67.10% | 1,273 | 32.57% | 13 | 0.33% | 1,350 | 34.54% | 3,909 |
| McCurtain | 3,483 | 76.48% | 1,048 | 23.01% | 23 | 0.51% | 2,435 | 53.47% | 4,554 |
| McIntosh | 2,969 | 66.01% | 1,519 | 33.77% | 10 | 0.22% | 1,450 | 32.24% | 4,498 |
| Murray | 2,220 | 70.14% | 936 | 29.57% | 9 | 0.28% | 1,284 | 40.57% | 3,165 |
| Muskogee | 7,471 | 56.85% | 5,652 | 43.01% | 18 | 0.14% | 1,819 | 13.84% | 13,141 |
| Noble | 1,950 | 43.18% | 2,523 | 55.87% | 43 | 0.95% | -573 | -12.69% | 4,516 |
| Nowata | 2,247 | 49.87% | 2,240 | 49.71% | 19 | 0.42% | 7 | 0.16% | 4,506 |
| Okfuskee | 3,020 | 66.01% | 1,522 | 33.27% | 33 | 0.72% | 1,498 | 32.74% | 4,575 |
| Oklahoma | 20,397 | 46.09% | 23,701 | 53.56% | 156 | 0.35% | -3,304 | -7.47% | 44,254 |
| Okmulgee | 5,579 | 45.77% | 6,542 | 53.67% | 68 | 0.56% | -963 | -7.90% | 12,189 |
| Osage | 4,427 | 47.39% | 4,842 | 51.83% | 73 | 0.78% | -415 | -4.44% | 9,342 |
| Ottawa | 4,179 | 50.20% | 4,086 | 49.08% | 60 | 0.72% | 93 | 1.12% | 8,325 |
| Pawnee | 2,481 | 43.64% | 3,140 | 55.23% | 64 | 1.13% | -659 | -11.59% | 5,685 |
| Payne | 4,368 | 44.58% | 5,356 | 54.66% | 75 | 0.77% | -988 | -10.08% | 9,799 |
| Pittsburg | 7,855 | 62.62% | 4,639 | 36.98% | 49 | 0.39% | 3,216 | 25.64% | 12,543 |
| Pontotoc | 4,692 | 63.76% | 2,643 | 35.92% | 24 | 0.33% | 2,049 | 27.84% | 7,359 |
| Pottawatomie | 6,558 | 54.54% | 5,308 | 44.14% | 159 | 1.32% | 1,250 | 10.40% | 12,025 |
| Pushmataha | 2,546 | 71.20% | 1,005 | 28.10% | 25 | 0.70% | 1,541 | 43.09% | 3,576 |
| Roger Mills | 1,542 | 57.52% | 1,005 | 37.49% | 134 | 5.00% | 537 | 20.03% | 2,681 |
| Rogers | 3,087 | 56.50% | 2,330 | 42.64% | 47 | 0.86% | 757 | 13.85% | 5,464 |
| Seminole | 3,352 | 58.15% | 2,392 | 41.50% | 20 | 0.35% | 960 | 16.66% | 5,764 |
| Sequoyah | 3,689 | 57.91% | 2,652 | 41.63% | 29 | 0.46% | 1,037 | 16.28% | 6,370 |
| Stephens | 4,456 | 62.17% | 2,566 | 35.80% | 145 | 2.02% | 1,890 | 26.37% | 7,167 |
| Texas | 1,884 | 48.53% | 1,962 | 50.54% | 36 | 0.93% | -78 | -2.01% | 3,882 |
| Tillman | 2,728 | 59.84% | 1,804 | 39.57% | 27 | 0.59% | 924 | 20.27% | 4,559 |
| Tulsa | 10,467 | 43.61% | 13,481 | 56.16% | 56 | 0.23% | -3,014 | -12.56% | 24,004 |
| Wagoner | 2,226 | 61.10% | 1,370 | 37.61% | 47 | 1.29% | 856 | 23.50% | 3,643 |
| Washington | 2,478 | 38.60% | 3,929 | 61.21% | 12 | 0.19% | -1,451 | -22.60% | 6,419 |
| Washita | 2,853 | 61.04% | 1,754 | 37.53% | 67 | 1.43% | 1,099 | 23.51% | 4,674 |
| Woods | 2,217 | 46.61% | 2,469 | 51.90% | 71 | 1.49% | -252 | -5.30% | 4,757 |
| Woodward | 1,897 | 46.85% | 2,112 | 52.16% | 40 | 0.99% | -215 | -5.31% | 4,049 |
| Totals | 280,206 | 54.45% | 230,469 | 44.78% | 3,941 | 0.77% | 49,737 | 9.66% | 514,616 |
