History
The Oklahoma Republican Party takes its roots from the territorial period, gaining most of its support from the Northwestern part of the state, where migrants from the state of Kansas brought with them the "Jay hawker" tradition of Republican Politics. Traditionally the Republican Party is weakest in the old Indian Territory or the area located in the Southeast. Republicans had held seats in congressional offices before the 1920s, but they had never held a seat in the senate. It was not until the 1920 election, that John W. Harreld became the first ever Republican U.S. Senator for the state of Oklahoma. During this time the Republican Party had also received the majority of the seats in congress, attaining five of the nine seats available. But it was the 1930s or The Great Depression that would prove to be the most troublesome for Republicans in Oklahoma. It was during this time that Republican voters had shifted their support to the revitalized Democratic Party.
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