Result
Sen. Mary Boren (D-Norman) has secured a third term in Oklahoma Senate District 16 without facing an opponent for the second election in a row. No challenger filed for the seat in April, so Boren was among seven senators reelected at filing, and her name did not appear on the Tuesday, June 16 primary ballot or the Tuesday, Nov. 3 general election ballot.
Boren’s last contested race came in 2018, when she won the open seat with 62.9% of the vote over Republican Becki Maldonado and became the first woman elected to the District 16 seat. She was reelected without opposition in 2022. Her new four-year term begins Wednesday, Nov. 18.
Candidates and Platforms
Boren is an attorney from Norman who earned her law degree from the University of Oklahoma after graduating from Cameron University. Before joining the Senate, she worked as an estates and legacies manager for The Salvation Army.
In the Senate, she has pushed for more classroom funding, workers’ compensation and mental health and medical services for students. Her interim study requests this year covered keeping electricity and water bills low, eminent domain protections for landowners, the state’s A-F school report cards, right to repair and the use of Flock cameras. In September, she presented a study on the role and funding of county law libraries.
District and Chamber
District 16 covers Norman and the University of Oklahoma in Cleveland County. Democrats held all of their incumbent seats in the Legislature on Nov. 3, though Republicans kept their supermajority in the Oklahoma Senate.
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