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Oklahoma's 1st Congressional District election, 2022 (June 28 Republican primary)

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Oklahoma's 1st Congressional District
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Democratic primary
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General election
Election details
Filing deadline: April 15, 2022
Primary: June 28, 2022
Primary runoff: August 23, 2022
General: November 8, 2022
How to vote
Poll times: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Voting in Oklahoma
Race ratings
Cook Partisan Voter Index (2022): R+14
Cook Political Report: Solid Republican
Inside Elections: Solid Republican
Sabato's Crystal Ball: Safe Republican
Ballotpedia analysis
U.S. Senate battlegrounds
U.S. House battlegrounds
Federal and state primary competitiveness
Ballotpedia's Election Analysis Hub, 2022
See also
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A Republican Party primary took place on June 28, 2022, in Oklahoma's 1st Congressional District to determine which Republican candidate would run in the district's general election on November 8, 2022.

Incumbent Kevin Hern advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Oklahoma District 1.

Candidate filing deadline Primary election General election
April 15, 2022
June 28, 2022
November 8, 2022


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. In Oklahoma, the Republican Party conducts a closed primary, in which only registered party members may participate. The Democratic Party holds a semi-closed primary, in which unaffiliated voters may participate.[1]

For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.

This page focuses on Oklahoma's 1st Congressional District Republican primary. For more in-depth information on the district's Democratic primary and the general election, see the following pages:

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Candidates and election results

Republican primary election

The Republican primary election was canceled. Incumbent Kevin Hern advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Oklahoma District 1.

Campaign finance

This section contains campaign finance figures from the Federal Election Commission covering all candidate fundraising and spending in this election.[2] It does not include information on fundraising before the current campaign cycle or on spending by satellite groups. The numbers in this section are updated as candidates file new campaign finance reports. Candidates for Congress are required to file financial reports on a quarterly basis, as well as two weeks before any primary, runoff, or general election in which they will be on the ballot and upon the termination of any campaign committees.[3] Click here to view the reporting schedule for candidates for U.S. Congress in 2022.

U.S. Congress campaign reporting schedule, 2022
Report Close of books Filing deadline
Year-end 2021 12/31/2021 1/31/2022
April quarterly 3/31/2022 4/15/2022
July quarterly 6/30/2022 7/15/2022
October quarterly 9/30/2022 10/15/2022
Pre-general 10/19/2022 10/27/2022
Post-general 11/28/2022 12/08/2022
Year-end 2022 12/31/2022 1/31/2023


Name Party Receipts* Disbursements** Cash on hand Date
Kevin Hern Republican Party $1,709,945 $1,346,743 $692,600 As of December 31, 2022

Source: Federal Elections Commission, "Campaign finance data," 2022. This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

* According to the FEC, "Receipts are anything of value (money, goods, services or property) received by a political committee."
** According to the FEC, a disbursement "is a purchase, payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit or gift of money or anything of value to influence a federal election," plus other kinds of payments not made to influence a federal election.


Primary election competitiveness

See also: Primary election competitiveness in state and federal government, 2022

This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Oklahoma.

Post-filing deadline analysis

The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Oklahoma in 2022. Information below was calculated on June 8, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.

Twenty-eight candidates filed to run for Oklahoma’s five U.S. House districts, including five Democrats and 23 Republicans. That’s 5.6 candidates per district, more than the 5.4 candidates per district in 2020 and less than the 7.2 in 2018.

This was the first election to take place under new district lines following the 2020 census. Oklahoma was apportioned five districts, the same number it was apportioned after the 2010 census.

The 2nd district was the only open seat this year. That’s one more seat than in 2020 and the same as in 2018. Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R), who represented the 2nd district, ran for the U.S. Senate. Fifteen candidates — one Democrat and 14 Republicans — ran to replace Mullin, the most candidates who ran for a seat this year.

There were four contested Republican primaries, and no contested Democratic primaries. The four contested primaries this year were the fewest since at least 2014, and it was the first time since at least then when there were no contested Democratic primaries.

Rep. Kevin Hern (R), who represented the 1st district, was the only incumbent who didn't face a primary challenger this year. Republican and Democratic candidates filed to run in all five districts, so no seats were guaranteed to either party this year.


Ballot access requirements

The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in Oklahoma in the 2022 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in Oklahoma, click here.

Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2022
State Office Party Signatures required Filing fee Filing deadline Source
Oklahoma U.S. House All candidates 2% of the number of registered voters in the appropriate district[4] $1,000.00 4/15/2022 Source

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Oklahoma State Election Board Website, "Voter Registration in Oklahoma," accessed April 27, 2023
  2. ↑ Fundraising by primary candidates can be found on the race's respective primary election page. Fundraising by general election candidates can be found on the race's general election page.
  3. ↑ Federal Election Commission, "2022 Quarterly Reports," accessed March 2, 2022
  4. ↑ Petition signatures only required in lieu of a filing fee.


Oklahoma's current delegation to the United States Congress
Senators
James Lankford (R)
Markwayne Mullin (R)
Representatives
District 1
District 2
District 3
District 4
Tom Cole (R)
District 5
Republican Party (7)


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