North Carolina's 4th Congressional District election, 2022 (May 17 Republican primary)
- Primary date: May 17
- Mail-in registration deadline: April 22
- Online reg. deadline: April 22
- In-person reg. deadline: April 22
- Early voting starts: April 28
- Early voting ends: May 14
- Poll times: 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
- Absentee/mail-in deadline: May 17
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| Election details |
| Filing deadline: March 4, 2022 |
| Primary: May 17, 2022 Primary runoff: July 5, 2022 General: November 8, 2022 |
| How to vote |
| Poll times: 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Voting in North Carolina |
| Race ratings |
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| Ballotpedia analysis |
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| See also |
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A Republican Party primary took place on May 17, 2022, in North Carolina's 4th Congressional District to determine which Republican candidate would run in the district's general election on November 8, 2022.
Courtney Geels advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 4.
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A primary election is an election in which registered voters select a candidate that they believe should be a political party's candidate for elected office to run in the general election. They are also used to choose convention delegates and party leaders. Primaries are state-level and local-level elections that take place prior to a general election. North Carolina utilizes a semi-closed primary system. Parties decide who may vote in their respective primaries. Voters may choose a primary ballot without impacting their unaffiliated status.[1][2]
For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.
This page focuses on North Carolina's 4th Congressional District Republican primary. For more in-depth information on the district's Democratic primary and the general election, see the following pages:
- North Carolina's 4th Congressional District election, 2022 (May 17 Democratic primary)
- North Carolina's 4th Congressional District election, 2022
Candidates and election results
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 4
Courtney Geels defeated Robert Thomas in the Republican primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 4 on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Courtney Geels  | 64.5 | 19,645 |
 | Robert Thomas | 35.5 | 10,793 | |
| Total votes: 30,438 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- John Szoka (R)
- Rene Borghese (R)
- Nat Robertson (R)
- Craig Kinsey (R)
- Erik Fredsell (R)
Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in North Carolina.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in North Carolina in 2022. Information below was calculated on March 31, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
In 2022, 103 candidates filed to run for North Carolina’s 14 U.S. House districts, including 60 Republicans, 40 Democrats, two Libertarians, and one independent. That’s 7.4 candidates per district, up from 5.3 in 2020 and 5.0 in 2018.
Here are some other highlights from filings in 2022:
- This was the first filing deadline to take place under new district lines following the 2020 census. North Carolina was apportioned 14 seats after the 2020 census, up from 13 seats in the last round of apportionment following the 2010 census.
- Two incumbents filed to run for re-election in a different district than the one they represented before redistricting. 8th District Rep. Richard Hudson (R) filed for re-election in the 9th District. 9th District Rep. Dan Bishop (R) filed for re-election in the 8th District.
- Four seats were open, meaning no incumbent filed to run. In addition to the newly-created 14th District, this included the 1st, 4th, and 13th Districts: Rep. Ted Budd (R) filed to run for U.S. Senate rather than seeking re-election. Reps. G.K. Butterfield (D) and David Price (D) retired from politics.
- This marked the largest number of open seats since at least 2012. There were three open seats in 2020 and none in 2018.
- Fifteen candidates filed to run in the 11th District, more than any other. This figure includes eight Republicans, six Democrats, and one Libertarian.
Ballot access requirements
The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in North Carolina in the 2022 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in North Carolina, click here.
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| State | Office | Party | Signatures required | Filing fee | Filing deadline | Source |
| North Carolina | U.S. House | Ballot-qualified party | N/A | $1,740.00 | 3/4/2022 | Source |
| North Carolina | U.S. House | Unaffiliated | 1.5% of the total number of registered voters in the district | $1,740.00 | 5/17/2022 | Source |
See also
- North Carolina's 4th Congressional District election, 2022 (May 17 Democratic primary)
- North Carolina's 4th Congressional District election, 2022
- United States House elections in North Carolina, 2022 (May 17 Democratic primaries)
- United States House elections in North Carolina, 2022 (May 17 Republican primaries)
- United States House Democratic Party primaries, 2022
- United States House Republican Party primaries, 2022
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2022
- U.S. House battlegrounds, 2022
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