1976Flipped from RepublicanFinal resultsIncumbent defeated
1976 election for Oklahoma House District 44
Oklahoma House of Representatives · Oklahoma
Cleta Deatherage (D) won with 61.4% of the vote, defeating Mina Hibdon (R) by 22.8 points, a seat Republicans won last time.
Cleta DeatherageDemocrat · winner
61.4%8,733
Mina HibdonRepublican · incumbent
38.6%5,491
14,224 votes
Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET
The seat over time
D − R margin in this seat's races around 1976
Races before and after
Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET