Mail-in ballots will begin to be mailed to registered voters on Sat. at the Conference Center Tuklo Chito (Big Room 2) #1711 at the Choctaw Nation Headquarters in Durant. to contest the candidacy of a candidate in the same race.Ī meeting for prospective candidates will be held Tuesday, April 25 at 4 p.m. Prospective candidates for the 2023 tribal elections have until Friday at 4:30 p.m.

Larry Wade is challenging incumbent Perry Thompson for the District 8 seat. Tony Ward, the incumbent district 2 councilor, is being challenged by Brent Minter.ĭistrict 3 is a three-way race between incumbent Eddie Bohanan, Kay Hearing, and Archie Meashintubby. He won his election in 2015 and ran unopposed for the seat in 2019.īatton is running unopposed for the office of Chief of the Choctaw Nation.ĭistrict 1 Councilman Thomas Williston and District 5 Councilman Ronald Perry will also run unopposed in their bids for re-election. Gary Batton was appointed the tribe's 47th chief following the retirement of Gregory E. Other council seats within the tribe's 12-person council that are up for election this year are Districts 1, 2, 3, 5, and 8 along with chief. The Choctaw Nation Constitutional Court ruled in favor of the election board's decision. The petition filed by Meashintubby argued the proper procedure to determine a winner of an election is through a runoff between the two remaining candidates. Meashintubby challenged the Choctaw Nation Election Board's decision to declare Karr the winner. Meashintubby ran against Karr and Pate and finished third in the 2019 election. Karr was declared the winner of the election after Pate dropped out of the election prior to a runoff election. Karr was first elected to serve the district in 2019 after defeating longtime councilman Bob Pate.

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