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109th Lineup: 4 R, 1 D
108th Lineup: 4 R, 1 D
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Oklahoma lost one of its six House seats in the 2000 Census, and for months there was a deadlock over redistricting between Republican Governor Frank Keating and the Democratic legislature. Keating wanted to keep a Tulsa-centered district, especially before the December 2001 special election in which his wife Cathy Keating ran for the Tulsa-centered 1st District seat vacated by Steve Largent. But she lost the Republican nomination. In 2002, the solution appeared after 3d District Congressman Wes Watkins announced he was retiring. Watkins was a Republican (although he used to be a Democrat) and the 3d District was centered in Little Dixie; the seat was safe for Watkins, but Democrats carry the area in state elections and would have a good chance to win an open seat contest. The issue went to court, and in May 2002, a county judge ordered the adoption of a plan that eliminated Watkins's district and gave the other incumbents safe seats; it also had the virtue of creating an Oklahoma City-centered district rather than splitting the city between several districts as it had been since 1981. Democrats, happy that Democratic incumbent Brad Carson got a safe seat, let the matter drop.