Cleveland County unofficial election results released, include losses for 2 OU students

The Oklahoma State Election Board has released unofficial election results from a Feb. 13 Cleveland County election that included races for Oklahoma City mayor, a McCloud Public Schools board member and several Norman City Council seats.

The results are as follows:  

• Oklahoma City's new mayor will be David Holt, who won by a large margin with just under 80 percent of the vote, defeating Randall Smith and Taylor Neighbors, an OU student who earned 13.25 percent of the vote. 

• Joe Carter Jr. won the 2nd Ward council member seat with 53.76 percent of the vote, defeating Jared Garner, David Perry and OU student Traci Baker. Baker, who ran and lost in last year's city council election, received 4.77 percent of the vote.

• Incumbent Bill Hickman defeated Charlie Mai, who dropped out of the race Jan. 31, to win the 4th Ward council member spot with 88.13 percent of the vote. 

• Incumbent Kyle Allison and Alex Scott will head to an April 3 runoff for the 8th Ward council member seat, since neither candidate won more than 50 percent of the vote. Allison earned 40.76 percent of the vote, Scott won 34.6 percent and Anthony McBride is out of the race with 24.64 percent of the vote. 

• Bobby Howard won the McCloud Public Schools board member seat with 60.61 percent of the vote after defeating Randy Patterson. 

Correction: This article was updated at 9:05 p.m. to reflect that Kyle Allison did not win the race, but is headed to a runoff since he did not receive more than 50 percent of the vote. 

Correction: This article was updated at 9:50 p.m. to include results from precincts outside Cleveland County in the OKC mayoral race and the McCloud Public Schools board race.