Election
The Attorney General is elected directly by the people of Oklahoma. Elections for the Attorney General are held on a four year basis. The Attorney General is directly elected; in the event of a tie between two or more candidates, the Legislature, by joint ballot, chooses one of the candidates.
As with all offices established in Article V of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, any person running for Attorney General must be a citizen of the state, a resident of the United States for ten years, and at least thirty-one years of age.
The Attorney General's term lasts for four years and runs parallel with the term of the Governor of Oklahoma, beginning on the first Monday in January following their election. As originally written, the Oklahoma Constitution placed no limits on the number of terms an individual could serve as Attorney General. Following the results of the 2010 state elections, the Constitution was amended to limit the Attorney General to no more than two terms, consecutive or not.
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