Kauger, 87, has served on the court since 1984. She represents District 4, which has the same boundaries as U.S. Republican Rep. Frank Lucas.

By a razor-thin margin, Justice Yvonne Kauger was voted out. In similarly close votes, Justices Noma Gurich and James Edmondson were retained.

Despite a push from the conservative think tank People For Opportunity to recall three judges, labeling them as “liberal activists” in ads, Oklahomans voted to retain Supreme Court District 3 Justice Noma Gurich and Supreme Court District 7 Justice James Edmondson.

Over the past 10 years, voters chose to retain the state’s Supreme Court justices every time they appeared on the ballot with 62.8% on average, according to data from the Oklahoma Election Board. The lowest vote for retention of a justice in the past 10 years was 58.7%, data shows.

After an Oklahoma justice was voted out in a retention election for the first time in state history on Tuesday, it's now up to the governor to appoint a new justice to fill the seat.

For the first time in history, Oklahoma voters on Tuesday removed one Oklahoma Supreme Court justice from the bench at the end of her term. In a nonpartisan election, Oklahoma voters narrowly decided to retain James Edmondson and Noma Gurich but not Yvonne Kauger for another six year term.

For the first time in state history, Oklahomans voted “no” to retain a state Supreme Court justice up for retention in Tuesday’s election. FOX23 looked into what this historical result means for Oklahoma.