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SENATOR LAMB RE-ELECTED WITHOUT OPPOSITION
AFTER PRIMARY FILER WITHDRAWS CANDIDACY
Six GOP Senators Now Returning Without Opposition
OKLAHOMA CITY ? Isaac Samuel of Oklahoma City, who yesterday filed a candidacy for the State Senate as a Republican in Senate District 47, withdrew his candidacy today.
As a result, Senator Lamb is re-elected to represent his Oklahoma City/Edmond district without Democrat opposition. This increases the number of incumbent Republican senators returning to office upon filing to six. They include Lamb, Patrick Anderson (Enid), Brian Crain (Tulsa), John Ford (Bartlesville), Ron Justice (Chickasha) and Mike Mazzei (Tulsa).
Candidate filing period ended Wednesday afternoon with Senate Republicans in an unprecedented position to make history in 2008 and achieve the majority for the first time in Oklahoma history. With eight Senate seats uncontested by Democrats in 2008 and eleven carry-over Senators not on the ballot this year, Republicans go into Election Day with a 19-18 advantage.
Of the thirteen current Republican-held seats on the ballot in 2008, Democrats contested only five, or 38% of the seats.
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