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Okmulgee County joined the rest of the state in giving Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden as their top choices.
The Republican presidential primary balloting resulted with Trump receiving 2,496 or 89.05 percent of the votes in Okmulgee County. Second place in the balloting went to Nikki Haley with 263 or 9.36 percent of the votes. Statewide, Trump received 254,688 votes while Haley received 49,373.
Even though six other candidates have dropped out of the race, their names remained on the ballot.
Candidates and their Okmulgee County results included: Așa Hutchinson, 3 votes; Vivek Ramaswamy, 6; Ron DeSantis, 23; Ryan Binkley, 2; David Stuckenberg, 3; Chris Christie 7.
On the Democratic side, President Joe Biden picked up 695 votes for a 69.57 percent lead.
His closest challenger was Stephen Lyons with 91 votes.
In third place were Marianne Williamson and Dean Phillips, each with 89 votes.
Other votes went to Armando Mando Perez-Serrato, 21 and Cenk Uyghur 14.
On the Libertarian ballot, Chase Oliver had two votes and Jacob Hornberger had one.