Democrat Jena Nelson lost a tight race to Republican Stephanie Bice last night for Oklahoma's 5th Congressional District. Nelson likely could have won with the previous district boundaries.

In 2021, Oklahoma lawmakers reconfigured CD-5 by removing the southwestern portion of Oklahoma County and adding portions of the rural Canadian, Logan and Lincoln counties. The decision came three years after Democrat Kendra Horn was elected to represent the district, but Republican officials denied the redistricting effort was partisan.

Last night, Bice received a surplus of votes from those additional rural counties, eventually clinching a 3,000-vote win over Nelson. But if the candidates had run on the previous district map, the results may have been different.

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