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U.S. House - OK-05 · Oklahoma · 2026

General election · 3 on the November ballot · Incumbent running

VecR 33 · TiltingTenR 87%Att6

Result

Called

Stephanie Bice (R) won this race.

  • Stephanie BiceRepublicanIncumbentWinnershare not given131,023 votes
  • Jena NelsonDemocraticshare not given127,687 votes
  • Robert HenriIndependentshare not given4,027 votes
  • Austin NievesIndependentshare not given2,047 votes
Margin
3,336 votes
Called
First seen here, Nov 4, 3:15 AM ET
Last updated
Nov 14, 6:05 AM ET

Called it: hit Our locked call before polls closed was R; the winner is R. See every locked call

Unofficial until the state certifies the result.

Before the election

Polls, ratings and the Vugol Tensor below were published before votes were counted. They are not results.

CandidatesU.S. House - OK-05 · Oklahoma
Jena Nelson
D
DEM
Stephanie Bice
RIncumbent
REP
No verified poll yet · Vugol Vector: R Tilting

Model rating Leans Republican (Tilting) on the Vugol Vector model, a snapshot of today, not a probability.

1 poll on file, none verified yet (pollster not verified or no public source), shown below, not averaged. Model inputs: 4 of 7, updated today. Page updated 2026-11-15. Sources · What is validated

ExperimentalNews attention 6/100, how much coverage the race gets, not who is winning. Updated 3 days ago. How it works

On the Oklahoma ballot, Nov 3, 2026 United States Representative, District 5, 4 names on the official list. Election Day has passed; see the ballot as it was.Voting in Oklahoma? Check your registration, get a mail ballot, find your polling place.

On the November ballot (3)

From reported primary results, checked 2026-11-14. Each state certifies its own ballot; see the source below.

Ran in the primary (1)

Lost a primary or runoff for this seat, not on the November ballot.

Ballot source: https://results.okelections.gov/OKER/?elecDate=20260616

Latest verified field polling

Verified = published by the pollster that conducted it, with a public source we link to.

none yet

No verified poll has been published for this race. The Vugol Vector call from our model is below, it is not a poll.

Polling average

no verified inputs yet

1 poll on file for this race, none verified yet (pollster not verified or no public source), visible below, not averaged.

25405590d60d30dtodayGBAO (quarantined) · 2026-09-20 · Stephanie Bice (R) 48.0%GBAO (quarantined) · 2026-09-20 · Jena Nelson (D) 43.0%
Stephanie Bice (R)Jena Nelson (D)● verified poll · ○ quarantined poll · ◎ live average

Campaign money (FEC)

Candidate committee totals for the cycle from the Federal Election Commission (public domain), as of each committee's latest report.

CandidateRaisedSpentCash on handThrough
Stephanie Bice Republican$2,476,529$2,438,488$1,123,9892026-10-14
Jena Nelson Democratic$821,989$713,446$108,5432026-10-14
Robert Patrick Henri Independent$6,361$4,689$1,6722026-10-14
Trey Martin Democratic$115,315$115,315$02026-09-30

Ad spending (FEC)

What each campaign reported paying for ads, and what outside groups (super PACs, PACs and parties) reported spending for and against each candidate. Federal Election Commission filings, public domain.

CandidateCampaign's own adsOutside groups forOutside groups against
Trey Martin Democratic$50K+ $17K mail · through 2026-09-30$396K$181K ads · 2 groupsnone reported
Jena Nelson Democratic$0+ $14K mail · through 2026-06-30$126K$116K ads · 1 groupnone reported
Stephanie Bice Republican$1,500+ $33K mail · through 2026-06-30$93K$41K ads · 4 groupsnone reported

Biggest outside spenders

  • Trey Martin. For: LEAGUE OF LABOR VOTERS $394K, VOTERISE $1,635
  • Jena Nelson. For: Government That Works PAC $126K
  • Stephanie Bice. For: SAVE AMERICAN FREEDOM $36K, American Petroleum Institute $34K, WFW ACTION FUND INC $20K

Outside groups: 24- and 48-hour independent expenditure reports for the 2026 primary and general, through 2026-10-29, each expenditure counted once after amendments; "ads" is TV, radio, digital and other media, and the rest is mail, phones, canvassing and similar. Campaign's own ads: TV, radio, digital, other media and ad production in the campaign committee's itemized payments, as the campaign described them, from the reports the FEC has processed (latest through 2026-09-30); newer reports appear as the FEC processes them. These are amounts committees reported paying, not airtime tracked by ad-monitoring firms, so very recent buys and future reservations may not show yet. Parser fec-ad-spend-1.0.0.

Results

Vote counts as reported by the state; transcribed from the Wikipedia election article (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites the state’s official results.

general election

Stephanie Bice (incumbent) won131,023-
Jena Nelson127,687-
Robert Henri4,027-
Austin Nieves2,047-

Democratic primary · official results

Jena Nelson won26,88656.7%
Trey Martin20,49143.3%

Source: Wikipedia article revision (CC BY-SA 4.0), retrieved 2026-11-14 · parser wiki-race-1.0.0

Key dates

Official federal election dates for this state from the FEC. Registration deadlines and early voting: see the state election office.

  • 2026-06-16, Primary election: U.S. House
  • 2026-08-25, Runoff: U.S. House
  • 2026-11-03, General election: U.S. House

Source: FEC election dates (public domain).

In the news

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Lab

Vugol Vector & Vugol Attention

Vugol Attention 6 Vugol Vector R · Tilting

Vugol Me model signals, not polls. Verified polling is in the Polls section above.

Vugol Me Attention (attention intensity)

Vugol Attention intensity index 0–100 · not a poll · normalized nightly

attention-1.0.0
6OUT OF 100Low attention
Vugol Attention percentile0th
7-day momentum21 / 100
Source breadth0% of tracked

Vugol Vector

Proprietary ensemble model · a call, not a probability · model confidence: medium

vector-1.1.0
Democratic leanOpen centerRepublican lean
AnchoredHeldTiltingOpenTiltingHeldAnchored
Completeness4 of 7 inputs (national, prior, incumbent, money) · missing: pres, pulse, poll
Evidenceno audit release · fundamentals only
Freshnessoldest input 2026-11-12 (3 days ago)

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Vugol Tensor

How far this call can miss · a range, not a prediction · no verified poll here, so the range is wider and untested

tensor-1.0.0

Centre R+8.4. Four times in five the result lands between D+1.0 and R+17.8; nine in ten between D+3.7 and R+20.4. Chance the Democrat finishes ahead: 13%.

Polls have missed by about four points in a typical race and they miss together. How Tensor works →

Desk data: daily telemetry

Per-source daily series, CSV export and the Vugol Vector breakdown · paid plans

Sources

Vugol Vector band: R · Tilting. Have a say in the Vugol race poll; it is open to signed-in voters and never feeds these numbers.

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