{"id":27565,"date":"2016-11-10T11:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T17:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=27565"},"modified":"2016-11-10T11:24:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T17:24:20","slug":"oklahoma-divided-how-geography-influenced-the-vote-on-right-to-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2016\/11\/10\/oklahoma-divided-how-geography-influenced-the-vote-on-right-to-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma Divided: How Geography Influenced the Vote on \u2018Right-to-Farm\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/stateimpactok.carto.com\/viz\/377cd7ee-a6ce-11e6-887b-0ee66e2c9693\/embed_map\" height=\"520\" width=\"100%\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p><p>Oklahoma voters on Tuesday\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2016\/11\/09\/oklahoma-voters-soundly-reject-state-question-to-constitutionally-protect-farming-and-ranching\/\">soundly rejected<\/a>\u00a0State Question 777, a ballot measure that would have made farming and ranching a state constitutional right. The final tally was roughly 60 percent against and 40 percent in favor of the amendment \u2014 a difference of more than 290,000 votes.<\/p><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/292403884&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=false\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p><p><!--more--><\/p><p>A county-by-county breakdown of the results suggests geography was a major indicator of voters\u2019 attitudes on the so-called &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/tag\/right-to-farm\/\">right-to-farm<\/a>&#8216;\u00a0amendment.<\/p><p>The majority of the Oklahoma\u2019s 77 counties voted to approve SQ 777, but the measure failed the hardest in the the state\u2019s most densely populated areas \u2014 counties like Oklahoma, Tulsa, Canadian and Cleveland, StateImpact\u2019s analysis of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ok.gov\/elections\/support\/ok_results_seb.html\">unofficial results data<\/a> from the Oklahoma State Election Board show.<\/p><p>The only highly populated county that backed the measure was Comanche County in the southwestern part of the state, where Lawton is located.<\/p><p>The strongest support for 777 was found in rural counties: Like Roger Mills, and Texas and Cimarron in the Panhandle.<\/p><p>But not all rural counties supported 777. For example: Voters in southeastern Oklahoma\u2019s Coal County rejected the measure 53 percent to 47 percent.<\/p><p>The data also show a clear east-west divide on the ballot question, with agriculture-heavy western Oklahoma generally supporting the measure, while many of the counties in the eastern part of the state rejected it.<\/p><p>Edit: After this post was published, Bob Doucette from Tulsa made a good point that we touched on in <a href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2016\/10\/06\/groups-opposing-state-question-on-agriculture-form-unusual-alliance-over-water\/\">a previous story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joewertz\">@joewertz<\/a> Might also note that many of the no counties are in lake country, where water quality problems from runoff have been an issue.<\/p><p>\u2014 Bob Doucette (@RMhigh7088) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RMhigh7088\/status\/796764022314045440\">November 10, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma voters on Tuesday\u00a0soundly rejected\u00a0State Question 777, a ballot measure that would have made farming and ranching a state constitutional right. The final tally was roughly 60 percent against and 40 percent in favor of the amendment \u2014 a difference of more than 290,000 votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":27569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[491],"tags":[678,637,677],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27565"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27583,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27565\/revisions\/27583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}