Mary Newt Fallin (; née Copeland; born December 9, 1954) is an American politician and real estate broker who served as the 27th governor of Oklahoma from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, she previously served as the U.S. representative for Oklahoma's 5th congressional district from 2007 to 2011, and as lieutenant governor from 1995 to 2007. As of 2026, Fallin remains the only woman to have served as governor of Oklahoma.
Beginning a career in politics, Fallin was elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives in 1990. She served two terms in the Oklahoma House, representing a district in Oklahoma City, from 1990 to 1995. In 1994, Fallin was elected to serve as the 14th lieutenant governor of Oklahoma; being elected to a total of three terms, she served under two different governors from 1995 to 2007. After seven-term Republican incumbent Ernest Istook announced that he would retire from his seat to run for governor, Fallin declared her candidacy for Oklahoma's 5th congressional district, where she was elected to two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, serving from 2007 to 2011.
Fallin ran for Governor of Oklahoma in 2010. She defeated three other opponents with 54% of the vote in the Republican primary, and defeated the Democratic nominee, Lieutenant Governor Jari Askins, with 60% of the vote in the general election. She won re-election in 2014, defeating Oklahoma state representative Joe Dorman. Term limits barred Fallin from seeking a third term to the governorship in 2018; fellow Republican Kevin Stitt was elected to succeed her.
Early life, education, and early career
Fallin was born Mary Copeland in Warrensburg, Missouri, the daughter of Mary Jo (née Duggan) and Joseph Newton Copeland. Her mother and father each served terms as mayor of Tecumseh, Oklahoma, where she was raised. They were both members of the Oklahoma Democratic Party. She was a Democrat until she was 21. That year she switched to the Republican Party of Oklahoma and became active with the Young Republicans. She graduated from Tecumseh High School and attended Oklahoma Baptist University, in Shawnee. Fallin holds a bachelor of science degree in human and environmental sciences, and family relations and child development from Oklahoma State University (1977). At Oklahoma State she joined the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.
Government and Private Sector Employment
After college, Fallin worked for the Oklahoma Department of Tourism and Recreation, Oklahoma Employment Security Commission, and the Oklahoma Office of Personnel Management. In 1983, she went to the private sector as a hotel manager for Lexington Hotel and Suites, located at Richmond Square near Blackwelder and Northwest Expressway which was later demolished to make way for OnCue. She has also worked as marketing director for a Ski Lodge in Utah, and in Oklahoma was a commercial real estate broker.
Oklahoma House of Representatives
thumb|upright=0.7|Fallin as a state representative
Elections
Fallin ran for the 85th district of the Oklahoma House of Representatives after incumbent Mike Hunter announced his retirement in December 1989. She won the Republican primary in August and the general election in November. In 1992, she won re-election to a second term unopposed.
Tenure
She represented Oklahoma City in the House, and authored 16 bills that became law. In 1992, Oklahoma became one of the first five states in the nation to enact anti-stalking legislation when Fallin authored and introduced HB 2291, which made it illegal to stalk or harass people. Fallin was active with the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and was recognized by ALEC as Legislator of the Year in 1993. Also that year she was named Guardian of Small Business by the National Federation of Independent Business. According to The Almanac of American Politics, she "championed victims' rights and health care reform."
Lieutenant Governor (1995–2007)
Elections
After two terms in the House, Fallin decided to run for Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma. Ultimately she ran in three elections that year, all of which were against other women, and raised about $200,000. She faced two other candidates in the Republican primary. Terry Neese ranked first with 38% of the vote, but failed to reach the 50% threshold needed to win outright. Fallin ranked second with 36% of the vote, qualifying for the run-off election. She defeated Neese in the run-off primary election 53%–47%. She defeated Democrat Nance Diamond 50%–44%. She did well in the northwest region, the Oklahoma Panhandle, and her home Oklahoma County.
She won re-election to a second term in 1998, defeating Jack Morgan 68%–32%. She won all but nine counties, all of which were located in the far eastern part of the state. She won re-election to a third term in 2002, defeating Democratic State Representative Laura Boyd 57%–39%, dominating the eastern part of the state.
Tenure
In 1995, Fallin became the first woman and first Republican to be sworn in as lieutenant governor of Oklahoma, an office she would hold for 12 years. As lieutenant governor, Fallin served on 10 boards and commissions. Early in her tenure, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, located in Oklahoma City, was bombed, killing 168 people in what became the worst case of domestic terrorism in United States history; Fallin led a task force to rebuild the childcare center that was lost in the attack. In 1997, she chaired the Fallin Commission on Workers' Compensation, which released a comprehensive reform plan to lower costs in the state's workers' compensation system. Fallin promoted Project Homesafe, a national initiative of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a firearms industry trade association, to distribute free cable gun locks to reduce the risk of accidental in-home shootings.
In her role as the president of the state senate, Fallin promoted legislation to adopt a right-to-work law prohibiting labor unions from requiring members to pay union dues as a condition of employment; Oklahoma ultimately passed a right-to-work law in 2001. With 12 years of service, Fallin was the third longest-serving Lieutenant Governor in Oklahoma history.
Leadership positions
In 1998, Fallin served as chairwoman of the National Lieutenant Governors Association. In 1999, she served as chairwoman of the Republican Lieutenant Governors Association. Fallin also served as the national Chairwoman of the Aerospace States Association.
U.S. House of Representatives (2007–2011)
Elections
thumb|Fallin during her tenure in the House
2006
Fallin decided not to seek re-election to a fourth term as lieutenant governor. Instead, she decided to run in Oklahoma's 5th congressional district, after incumbent Republican congressman Ernest Istook decided to run for governor of Oklahoma. Fallin also considered running for governor and challenging incumbent Democrat Brad Henry, but decided against it given Henry's popularity as measured in polls at the time.
The July 25 Republican primary for the 5th district had six candidates. Fallin received 35% of the vote. Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett finished second with 24% of the vote. The contest between her and Cornett was largely financial. They had few differences on the issues, but Fallin had a big cash advantage. On August 22, 2006, she defeated Cornett in the run-off primary election, 63%–37%.
Fallin won the general election on November 7, defeating Democrat Paul David Hunter 60%–40%.
2008
Fallin easily won re-election in 2008, defeating Democrat Steve Perry 66%–34%.
Tenure
thumb|Rep. Mary Fallin, [[Keith Ellison, and Jerry McNerney among other congressional delegates meet with Commander of Multi-National Force – Iraq General David Petraeus in 2007]]
Fallin became the first woman elected to Congress from Oklahoma since 1920, when Alice Mary Robertson became Oklahoma's first (and the nation's second) woman to be elected to Congress. Fallin resigned her position as Lieutenant Governor on January 2, 2007, in order to be sworn into Congress on January 4, 2007. Lieutenant Governor-elect Jari Askins was appointed by Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry to fill the remaining days of Fallin's term.
The 5th district included Oklahoma, Pottawatomie, and Seminole counties.
In June 2007, she passed her first bill: a revamping of federal grants for women's business centers. She joined a group of 38 Republicans who opposed an expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). However, Fallin voted against the auto industry rescue plan of 2008.
From 2007 to 2010, she served as the top Republican on the House Small Business subcommittee with oversight over the Small Business Administration. In this capacity, she joined subcommittee chairman Jason Altmire and fellow Oklahoma Republican congressman John Sullivan in holding a congressional field hearing in Tulsa to investigate the impact of federal energy proposals on Oklahoma businesses.
Committee assignments
- House Committee on Armed Services
- House Committee on Small Business
- House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
- United States House Committee on Natural Resources
Caucus memberships
In addition to her committee assignments, she served on the Executive Committee of the National Republican Congressional Committee, Small Business Chairwoman on the Republican Policy Committee, and Vice Chairwoman of the Congressional Women's Caucus.
2010 gubernatorial election
In September 2009, Fallin and four other candidates had announced their intentions to run for governor to succeed Brad Henry. Along with Fallin they were:
- Former President of the Oklahoma Office Machine Dealers Association (OOMDA) Roger L. Jackson (R)
- Attorney General of Oklahoma Drew Edmondson (D)
- Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma Jari Askins (D)
- State Senator Randy Brogdon (R)
- Oklahoma business owner Robert Hubbard (R)
Fallin won the Republican nomination with 136,460 votes, ahead of her nearest challenger, State Senator Randy Brogdon, who received 98,159 votes. Former Alaska governor and 2008 vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin endorsed Fallin in the primary. On November 2, 2010, Fallin defeated Democratic nominee Jari Askins 60% to 39% to become Oklahoma's first female governor.
Governor of Oklahoma (2011–2019)
thumb|right|Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin at the ribbon cutting ceremony for the opening of the University Center in Ponca City, Oklahoma on July 12, 2011
Transition, staff and advisors
In the election in which Fallin was elected governor, every statewide Republican official on the ballot was victorious, and for the first time in Oklahoma history, Republicans dominated all 11 statewide positions. Fallin began her transition by holding a joint press conference with outgoing governor Brad Henry.
Fallin appointed Gary Sherrer as Oklahoma Secretary of the Environment, a position he previously held under Democratic governor David Walters; Tulsa city auditor Preston Doerflinger as Oklahoma Secretary of Finance and Revenue and director of the Oklahoma Office of State Finance; and state health commissioner Terry Cline as Oklahoma Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Fallin appointed Dave Lopez Oklahoma Secretary of Commerce and Tourism and director of the Oklahoma Department of Commerce in 2011. Lopez left Fallin's cabinet in 2013, but returned in 2017, when Fallin appointed him secretary of state.
Fallin named Lieutenant Governor Todd Lamb to her cabinet as Small Business Advocate. In February 2017, however, Lamb resigned from the Small Business Advocate post, saying that he could not support Fallin's proposal to impose the sales tax to 164 different services that are currently not taxed. Lamb said that proposal would harm small businesses and families in the state; Fallin responded by saying she was disappointed in the resignation and that her proposals were necessary to address the $900 million "structural deficits of our budget."
Fallin's general counsel, Jennifer Chance, abruptly resigned in 2017, five months after becoming general counsel, amid a conflict-of-interest controversy. Chance had referred legal business involving Robert Bates, a reserve deputy convicted of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Eric Harris in 2015, to her husband, a criminal defense attorney who was paid $25,000 to seek a governor's commutation of Bates's sentence.
Public opinion
The state’s first female governor started with a strong approval rating but departed with an approval rating of 23.4 percent.
Criminal law
Lethal injection controversy
Under Fallin, Oklahoma has pushed for increased use of lethal injection as a mode of execution, while refusing to release details of the new chemical concoctions used in these executions following chemical company Hospira's decision to stop producing sodium thiopental, which had previously been widely used. Fallin pushed strongly for the execution of convicted murderer Clayton Lockett to proceed in spite of the lack of tested drugs to use for lethal injection. When the Oklahoma State Supreme Court granted a stay of execution, Fallin immediately overruled it, leading some political commentators to raise the possibility of a constitutional crisis surrounding the separation of powers. At the same time, a member of the Oklahoma legislature moved to impeach the seven justices on the Supreme Court who had granted the stay. Lockett's execution was attempted on April 29, 2014, but was abandoned when he could not be sedated and was left writhing in pain. Lockett died 43 minutes later of a heart attack. Fallin appointed a member of her staff to lead the investigation into the botched execution. Robert Patton, her director of corrections, resigned, and despite an Oklahoma conflict of interest law, was hired as a deputy warden by GEO Group whose contract he had overseen. Oklahoma State Prison warden Anita Trammel also resigned during the investigation.
Criminal justice reform
In 2016, Fallin convened an Oklahoma Justice Reform Task Force to make various recommendations on criminal justice reform in Oklahoma, which has the second-highest incarceration rate among U.S. states. In 2017, Fallin praised a package of bills passed by the state House and state Senate; the bills, which passed unanimously or by broad margins, would, among other things, allow nonviolent offenders sentenced to life imprisonment to petition for a sentence modification after ten years in prison; expand diversion programs that steer convicted persons from prison to treatment and supervision; mandate "the creation of individualized plans for inmates to help them better reintegrate into society" after release from prison; and establish an oversight council to track the effectiveness of reform initiatives.
In 2017, however, Fallin struggled to push further major criminal justice reform bills through the legislature. This package of bills, supported by Fallin and recommended by the Task Force, would lower sentences for nonviolent drug crimes, allow more elderly prisoners to be paroled, and expand diversion programs. The bills were bottled up in the House Judiciary-Criminal Justice and Corrections Committee under its chairman, state Representative Scott Biggs, which prompted Fallin to criticized Biggs. In August 2017, Fallin was sued by inmates alleging unfair parole hearings and corruption from state lawmakers.
Anti-protest legislation
In 2017 Fallin signed legislation establishing fines of at least $10,000 for protesters who trespass on critical infrastructure sites (such as fossil fuel facilities), or $100,000 and a 10-year prison sentence for protesters who "tamper" with such facilities. The legislation also imposes fines of up to $1 million on organizations found to have conspired with trespassers.
Ten Commandments monument controversy
thumb|Governor Fallin at 2015 [[Southern Republican Leadership Conference in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma]]
Fallin was a supporter of a controversial Ten Commandments monument that had been erected on the Oklahoma State Capitol grounds in 2012. In July 2015, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled, in a 7–2 vote, that the monument's presence on public land violated the Oklahoma Constitution, which prohibits the use of public property "for the benefit of any religious purpose." Fallin initially refused to follow the court order, expressing the view that the ruling was incorrect and that the state would petition for a rehearing of the case.
The court's ruling was subsequently upheld, and in October 2015 the monument was quietly removed from Capitol grounds to a private property several blocks away. Fallin called for a state constitutional amendment to restore the monument to the Capitol grounds. The Legislature passed the resolution placing the question on the Oklahoma ballot, with voters to decide at the November 2016 election. The resolution was subsequently defeated.
2016 vice-presidential speculation
thumb|Fallin speaking at the [[2016 Republican National Convention]]
In a televised interview in April 2016, Fallin's name was mentioned by former South Carolina Lieutenant Governor André Bauer as a potential running mate for Donald Trump, should he become the Republican presidential nominee in the 2016 presidential election. Trump himself described Bauer's suggestion as "great advice" in a tweet shortly afterwards. Fallin later endorsed Trump on May 4, 2016.
In May 2016, the Republican National Committee announced that Fallin would serve as co-chairwoman to the 2016 Republican National Convention's Committee on Resolutions, known as the Platform Committee.
Fiscal policy
thumb|Governor Mary Fallin stands with a family that survived the [[2013 Moore tornado|devastating 2013 Moore tornado with winds exceeding 200 miles per hour]]
Over the course of her tenure as governor, Fallin has sought to eliminate Oklahoma's state income tax while expanding sales taxes.
Cutting Oklahoma's personal income tax, the state's largest source of tax revenue, has been a "top priority" for Fallin and Republican legislators. In the 2012 legislative session, legislation advocated by Fallin and allies to cut the top income tax from 5.25% to 4.8% while eliminating 33 tax credits failed, in part because the legislation would increase the tax burden on around one-quarter of Oklahoma taxpayers, particularly middle-class taxpayers with two or more children. In the aftermath of a steep drop in oil and gas prices that hurt state revenue, the state Senate passed legislation to roll the tax cut back, which Fallin opposed.
In February 2016 at the opening of the Oklahoma Legislature's session, Fallin proposed $200 million in increased taxes to deal with an anticipated budget shortfall of at least $900 million for fiscal year 2017, Fallin proposed expanding state sales and use taxes to services and items delivered electronically such as music sold online, neither of which are currently taxed in Oklahoma. The budget cut most state services by 5%, with steeper cuts to higher education, which was cut 16%.
In 2017, Fallin pushed to expand the state sales tax to 164 services that are not currently taxed, in order to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in state revenue. Fallin specifically proposed imposing sales tax on the top ten services by sales: residential utility services, as well as "cable TV services; repair and maintenance services; legal services; real estate agent services; plumbing and heating services; electrical and wiring services; oil field services; business services; and accounting services." Fallin's proposed tax increase would increase monthly residential utility costs by 4.5%. Fallin vetoed similar legislation four years earlier. In April 2015, Fallin signed into law a measure banning a common second-trimester abortion procedure, dilation and evacuation, except when necessary to save the life of the woman. In May 2015, Fallin signed into law a measure that tripled the mandatory waiting period in Oklahoma for an abortion, extending it to 72 hours. The measure also included other anti-abortion provisions.
In December 2016, Fallin signed into law a bill to require all Oklahoma Department of Health-regulated entities, including restaurants, public buildings, hospitals, and small businesses, to install anti-abortion signs in their public restrooms by January 2018. The bill appropriates no state funding for the signs, requiring businesses to pay the estimated cost (estimated to be $2.3 million).
LGBT issues
Fallin was criticized for bias after ordering state-owned National Guard facilities to deny spousal benefits (including the provision of identification cards that would allow them to access such benefits) to all same-sex couples. Fallin took the position that such relationships were illegitimate under Oklahoma law. Fallin later backed down after U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel stated that Oklahoma would be in violation of federal law for refusing to recognize the relationships.
In 2018, Fallin signed legislation that would allow private adoption agencies to refuse to place children in homes if it "would violate the agency's written religious or moral convictions or policies." The legislation was opposed by LGBT rights groups, which said that the legislation would allow discrimination against LGBT couples seeking to adopt.
Guns
In 2014, Fallin vetoed a bill that would have required sheriffs and police chief to approve individuals' "applications for tax stamps for items such as silencers, suppressors, short-barreled rifles and shotguns, and automatic weapons." The Republican-controlled legislature overrode the veto.
In 2015, Fallin vetoed legislation that would have restricted businesses' ability to prohibit guns in parks, fairgrounds and recreational areas.
In 2018, Fallin vetoed legislation to authorize adults to publicly carry guns without permit or training, prompting the NRA to criticize her.
Climate change
Fallin is part of a group of Republican governors who have said that they will refuse to comply with Environmental Protection Agency regulations to reduce carbon emissions and combat climate change. In April 2015, Fallin issued an executive order prohibiting the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality and other state agencies from creating an emissions-reduction strategy under the Clean Power Plan, The proclamation attracted criticism because it was initially limited only to Christians. Following these objections, Fallin amended the proclamation to include people of "all faiths."
In May 2015, Fallin signed into law a measure prohibiting Oklahoma local governments from enacting local bans on oil and gas drilling. The bill was a response to a vote in Denton, Texas, to bar hydraulic fracturing (fracking), although no Oklahoma local government had attempted to ban fracking. The bill passed the state House 64-32 and the Senate 33-13; the bill was opposed by the Oklahoma Municipal League.
Education
In late January 2011, following a heated Oklahoma State Board of Education meeting, Fallin proposed major changes to the Oklahoma State Department of Education's organization and structure. The controversy arose over the Board of Education rejecting three senior staff members of Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Janet Barresi. Under Fallin's proposed changes, the Board would be stripped of its administrative powers and those powers would be transferred solely to the state superintendent, thus reducing the board to more of an advisory committee to the superintendent as opposed to a government body of the department.
Fallin was formerly a champion of the Common Core State Standards (which Oklahoma adopted in 2010), but in June 2014 signed a bill dropping the standards.
In April 2015, Fallin signed into law a measure that expanded charter schools statewide (a change from previous law, which allowed charter schools only in Tulsa and Oklahoma counties). The legislation required all expanding charter schools to receive approval from the local boards of education, and mandated that all charter schools be free and open like traditional public schools, thereby eliminating the prospect of charter schools picking and choosing students. Fallin also criticized "outside" groups that protested with Oklahoma teachers at Oklahoma State Capitol, referring to the National Education Association and West Virginia teachers.
In May 2015, Fallin signed a bill for a $25 million bond proposal to complete the Native American Cultural Center and Museum, a project already underway. The legislation also returned ownership of the property and museum to Oklahoma City.
In March 2017, Fallin approved of the Shawnee Tribe's plan to build a $25 million casino close to Guymon in the Oklahoma Panhandle.
Medical marijuana
In the June 2018 primary election, Oklahoma voters approved State Question 788, a ballot measure that legalized the growth, possession, sale, and use of marijuana for medicinal purposes, and provided that physicians could broadly prescribe it for various conditions. During the campaign, Fallin opposed the measure, arguing that it would effectively legalize marijuana for recreational purposes, and indicated that if the measure passed, she would call a special session of the state legislature to set regulations on use.
On July 11, 2018, soon after the measure passed, Fallin signed stringent new emergency rules adopted by the Oklahoma Board of Health to prohibit the sale of marijuana in smokeable form and to require that a pharmacist be on-site at dispensaries during operating hours. These regulations angered marijuana activists, Clarence E. Page Award, induction into the Oklahoma Aviation Hall of Fame, 1998 Woman of the Year in Government and 1993 Legislator of the Year.
Personal life
Fallin married her first husband, Joseph Fallin, a dentist, in November 1984. She filed for divorce in December 1998, alleging physical abuse from him, while at the same time he accused her of having an affair with an Oklahoma Highway Patrol officer, which she and the officer both denied, according to court reports. In November 2009, she married Wade Christensen, an Oklahoma City lawyer. They have a total of six children in their blended family, one of whom—model, makeup artist, and musician Christina Fallin—was described as "the most interesting governor's daughter in the country" by a 2014 Washington Post article.
Election history
August 23, 1994, Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma Republican primary results
{| class="wikitable"
!Candidates
!Party
!Votes
!%
|-
|Terry Theresa Neese
|Republican
|73,336
|37.57
|-
|Mary Fallin
|Republican
|69,785
|35.75
|-
|Ronnie Eisenhour
|Republican
|52,081
|26.68
|}
September 20, 1994, Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma Republican primary runoff results
{| class="wikitable"
!Candidates
!Party
!Votes
!%
|-
|Mary Fallin
|Republican
|67,000
|52.97
|-
|Terry Theresa Neese
|Republican
|59,488
|47.03
|}
November 8, 1994, Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma election results
{| class="wikitable"
!Candidates
!Party
!Votes
!%
|-
|Mary Fallin
|Republican
|489,539
|49.69
|-
|Nance Diamond
|Democratic
|435,215
|44.18
|-
|Bruce Hartnitt
|Independent
|60,384
|6.13
|}
August 27, 2002, Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma Republican primary results
{| class="wikitable"
!Candidates
!Party
!Votes
!%
|-
|Mary Fallin
|Republican
|168,461
|81.96
|-
|Jim Clark
|Republican
|37,068
|18.04
|}
{| class=wikitable style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;"
|+November 3, 1998, Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma election results
|-
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Candidates
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;"|Party
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;"|Votes
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;"|%
|-
|
|align=left|Jack Morgan
|align=center|Democratic Party
|281,379
|32%
|-
|
|align=left|Mary Fallin
|align=center|Republican Party
|585,712
|68%
|- style="background:#e9e9e9;"
| colspan="3" style="text-align:left; "|Total
| style="text-align:right; width:75px; "|867,091
| style="text-align:right; width:30px; "|100%
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="6"|Source: 1998 Election Results
|}
{| class=wikitable style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;"
|+November 5, 2002, Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma election results
|-
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Candidates
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;"|Party
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;"|Votes
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;"|%
|-
|
|align=left|Laura Boyd
|align=center|Democratic Party
|400,511
|39%
|-
|
|align=left|Mary Fallin
|align=center|Republican Party
|584,990
|57%
|-
|
|align=left|E.Z. Million
|align=center|Independent
|11,802
|1%
|-
|
|align=left|Billy Maguire
|align=center|Independent
|31,053
|3%
|- style="background:#e9e9e9;"
| colspan="3" style="text-align:left; "|Total
| style="text-align:right; width:75px; "|1,028,356
| style="text-align:right; width:30px; "|100%
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="6"|Source: 2002 Election Results
|}
{| class=wikitable style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;"
|+July 25, 2006 Republican primary results
|-
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Candidates
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;"|Party
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;"|Votes
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;"|%
|-
|
|align=left|Mary Fallin
|align=center|Republican Party
|16,691
|35%
|-
|
|align=left|Mick Cornett
|align=center|Republican Party
|11,718
|24%
|-
|
|align=left|Denise Bode
|align=center|Republican Party
|9,139
|19%
|-
|
|align=left|Kevin Calvey
|align=center|Republican Party
|4,870
|10%
|-
|
|align=left|Fred Morgan
|align=center|Republican Party
|4,493
|9%
|-
|
|align=left|Johnny B. Roy
|align=center|Republican Party
|1,376
|3%
|- style="background:#e9e9e9;"
| colspan="3" style="text-align:left; "|Total
| style="text-align:right; width:75px; "|48,267
| style="text-align:right; width:30px; "|100%
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="6"|Source: 2006 primary results
|}
{| class=wikitable style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;"
|+ August 24, 2006, Republican primary run-off results
|-
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Candidates
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;"|Party
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;"|Votes
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;"|%
|-
|
|align=left|Mary Fallin
|align=center|Republican Party
|26,748
|63%
|-
|
|align=left|Mick Cornett
|align=center|Republican Party
|15,669
|37%
|- style="background:#e9e9e9;"
| colspan="3" style="text-align:left; "|Total
| style="text-align:right; width:75px; "|42,417
| style="text-align:right; width:30px; "|100%
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="6"|Source: 2006 run-off results
|}
{| class=wikitable style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;"
|+November 7, 2006, U.S. Representative, Oklahoma's 5th District election results
|-
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Candidates
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;"|Party
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;"|Votes
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;"|%
|-
|
|align=left|David Hunter
|align=center|Democratic Party
|67,293
|37%
|-
|
|align=left|Mary Fallin
|align=center|Republican Party
|108,936
|60%
|-
|
|align=left|Matthew Woodson
|align=center|Independent
|4,196
|2%
|- style="background:#e9e9e9;"
| colspan="3" style="text-align:left; "|Total
| style="text-align:right; width:75px; "|180,425
| style="text-align:right; width:30px; "|100%
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="6"|Source: 2006 Election Results
|}
{| class=wikitable style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;"
|+November 4, 2008, U.S. Representative, Oklahoma's 5th District election results
|-
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Candidates
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;"|Party
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;"|Votes
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;"|%
|-
|
|align=left|Steven L. Perry
|align=center|Democratic Party
|88,996
|34%
|-
|
|align=left|Mary Fallin
|align=center|Republican Party
|171,925
|66%
|- style="background:#e9e9e9;"
| colspan="3" style="text-align:left; "|Total
| style="text-align:right; width:75px; "|260,921
| style="text-align:right; width:30px; "|100%
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="6"|Source: 2008 Election Results
|}
{| class=wikitable style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;"
|+July 27, 2010 Governor of Oklahoma Republican primary results
|-
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Candidates
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;"|Party
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;"|Votes
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;"|%
|-
|
|align=left|Mary Fallin
|align=center|Republican Party
|136,477
|55%
|-
|
|align=left|Randy Brogdon
|align=center|Republican Party
|98,170
|39%
|-
|
|align=left|Robert Hubbard
|align=center|Republican Party
|8,132
|3%
|-
|
|align=left|Roger Jackson
|align=center|Republican Party
|6,290
|3%
|- style="background:#e9e9e9;"
| colspan="3" style="text-align:left; "|Total
| style="text-align:right; width:75px; "|249,069
| style="text-align:right; width:30px; "|100%
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="6"|Source: 2010 primary results
|}
{| class=wikitable style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;"
|+November 2, 2010, Governor of Oklahoma election results
|-
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Candidates
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;"|Party
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;"|Votes
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;"|%
|-
|
|align=left|Jari Askins
|align=center|Democratic Party
|409,261
|40%
|-
|
|align=left|Mary Fallin
|align=center|Republican Party
|625,506
|60%
|- style="background:#e9e9e9;"
| colspan="3" style="text-align:left; "|Total
| style="text-align:right; width:75px; "|1,034,767
| style="text-align:right; width:30px; "|100%
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="6"|Source: 2010 Election Results
|}
June 24, 2014, Governor of Oklahoma Republican primary results
{| class="wikitable"
!Candidates
!Party
!Votes
!%
|-
|Mary Fallin
|Republican
|200,035
|75.5
|-
|Chad Moody
|Republican
|40,839
|15.4
|-
|Dax Ewbank
|Republican
|24,020
|9.1
|}
{| class=wikitable style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;"
|+November 4, 2014, Governor of Oklahoma election results
|-
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Candidates
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;"|Party
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;"|Votes
! style="background:#e9e9e9; text-align:center;"|%
|-
|
|align=left|Joe Dorman
|align=center|Democratic Party
|338,239
|41%
|-
|
|align=left|Mary Fallin
|align=center|Republican Party
|460,298
|56%
|-
|
|align=left|Kimberly Wallis
|align=center|Independent
|17,169
|2.1%
|-
|
|align=left|Richard Prawdzienski
|align=center|Independent
|9,125
|1%
|- style="background:#e9e9e9;"
| colspan="3" style="text-align:left; "|Total
| style="text-align:right; width:75px; "|824,831
| style="text-align:right; width:30px; "|100%
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="6"|Source: 2014 |-
|}
See also
- Government of Oklahoma
- 53rd Oklahoma Legislature
- 54th Oklahoma Legislature
- Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports
- List of female governors in the United States
- List of female lieutenant governors in the United States
- Women in the United States House of Representatives
References
External links
- Governor Mary Fallin official Oklahoma government site
- Mary Fallin for Governor
- Mary Fallin on VP
- Mary Fallin on Abortion
- Women of the Oklahoma Legislature Oral History Project -- OSU Library
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