Though whenever a party holds the White House, their President is their de facto leader, Mike Duncan, a longtime Republican activist, serves as the official Chairman of the Republican National Committee (usually called the RNC, not to be confused with the Republican National Convention).

In Oklahoma, there are 810,675 registered Republicans, compared to 1,029,334 Democrats and 225,602 independents.   In Oklahoma’s two largest counties, Oklahoma and Tulsa, Republicans hold a plurality.

Oklahoma’s Republican Party has been in the minority on the state level for most of the 101 years since statehood, taking control of the State House for only the second time in 2004, and still looking for its first majority in the State Senate (likely to occur this year).  Three Republicans have served as Governor – Henry Bellmon, Dewey Bartlett and Frank Keating.  Currently, on the state level, Republicans control only two Corporation Commission seats.

On the federal level, however, it’s been the exact opposite, with no Democrat winning Oklahoma’s seven Presidential electoral votes (one for each congressional district and one for each senator) since 1964.  In 2004, George W. Bush won all 77 counties in Oklahoma.  Republicans have controlled the Congressional delegation for many years now, and at one point in the 1990s, held every single House and Senate seat.

Gary Jones, a CPA, is the Chairman of the Oklahoma Republican Party.