OK City Council election is Feb. 11 for representation in Wards 3 & 7

Polls will open from 7 a.m. – 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 11, to vote in the Oklahoma City Council general election in Wards 3 and 7.

The nonpartisan election will decide who represents those Wards on City Council for the next four-year term. All registered voters in Wards 3 and 7 are eligible to vote. See a Ward map at okc.gov/WardMap.

To find your polling place and view a sample ballot for your precinct, use the OK Voter Portal.

EMBARK bus and OKC Streetcar service is free on all routes on election day to help voters get to the polls.

The candidates are:

Ward 3
Katrina Bedell Avers
Barbara Peck (incumbent)

Ward 7
Masood A. Haqq
Andrea Holman
Camal Pennington
John A. Pettis, Jr.

Ward 1 Councilman Bradly Carter and Ward 4 Councilman Todd Stone were unopposed and automatically elected to office.

How the election proceeds in each Ward depends on the number of candidates:

• In Ward 3, the general election winner is elected to office.
• In Ward 7, the general election on Feb. 11 determines whether a runoff on April 1 is necessary.
  • If a candidate earns more than half of the votes on Feb. 11, he or she is elected to office. No runoff is necessary.
  • If no candidate earns more than half of the votes on Feb. 11, the two with the most votes advance to a runoff on April 1. The runoff winner is elected to office.

The City Council has nine members: the Mayor, elected citywide, and one member from each of Oklahoma City’s eight Wards. They serve part-time as the head of the City’s Council-Manager form of government. The Mayor’s annual salary is $24,000, and each Council member’s is $12,000.