2014 Results Map: Inside Lt. Gov Lamb’s ‘Historic Win’
2014 Election Results Map: Lt. Governor (and Lamb’s historic win)
By Jamison Faught, MuskogeePolitico.com
As you can see, Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb carried every county in the state. In fact, his margins were so massive I had to change the percentages covered by the different colors. In 10 counties, Lamb had over 85% of the vote. In Cimarron County, he took 91.15%!
Lamb’s “worst” county? Coal County, where he got 54.73% to Cathy Cummings’ 45.27% – a 9.47% margin of victory.
Also of note, Lamb received the most votes of any Republican on the ballot: 561,453. By comparsion, Jim Inhofe got 557,537 and James Lankford had 556,382. Lamb had 101,665 more votes than Mary Fallin.
Granted, Lamb’s race didn’t have nearly the same attention or money spent, and his opponent was clearly second-tier, but Lamb’s performance is still remarkable.
As best as I can tell (and I looked through election results back to 1907), Lamb’s 68.5% is the highest percentage any Republican candidate has ever received for a statewide office, excluding U.S. Senate. It’s not the first time a Republican not running for U.S. Senate or President has carried every county (Ken Miller did in 2010, for example), but Lamb beat out the previous “high tide” record — Brenda Reneau’s 1998 Labor Commission victory of 68.42%. The only Republican candidate to have a higher percentage was Sen. Tom Coburn, with 70.64% in 2010.