OKC Mayor Mick Cornett Holds Lead Over Challengers In New Poll

By Nathan Elliott, News 9

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett held onto a sizeable lead over his challengers in a new poll released Sunday.

Sixty-three percent of likely voters said they would re-elect Cornett to a fourth term. That figure was virtually unchanged from an earlier poll taken February 17-19.

Councilman Ed Shadid gained six percentage points over the last few weeks. In the current poll, 25 percent of likely voters support the Ward 2 councilman in his bid to become mayor.

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Dark horse candidates Joe "Sarge" Nelson and Phil Hughes only garnered one percent of support each. The survey showed nine percent of voters remained undecided before the March 4 election.

The News 9/Oklahoma Gazette poll had a sample of 513 likely voters selected at random using landlines and cell phones. Results were weighted by sex and age, and stratified using a model of previous city mayoral elections. The poll was conducted between February 27 and March 1 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.32 percent.

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