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Oregon's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024 (May 21 Republican primary)

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Election details
Filing deadline: March 12, 2024
Primary: May 21, 2024
General: November 5, 2024
How to vote
Poll times: 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Voting in Oregon
Race ratings
Cook Political Report: Solid Republican
DDHQ and The Hill: Safe 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, 2024
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A Republican Party primary took place on May 21, 2024, in Oregon's 2nd Congressional District to determine which Republican candidate would run in the district's general election on November 5, 2024.

Incumbent Cliff Bentz advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Oregon District 2.

All 435 seats were up for election. At the time of the election, Republicans had a 220 to 212 majority with three vacancies.[1] As of June 2024, 45 members of the U.S. House had announced they were not running for re-election. To read more about the U.S. House elections taking place this year, click here.

In the 2022 election in this district, the Republican candidate won 67.5%-32.4%. Daily Kos calculated what the results of the 2020 presidential election in this district would have been following redistricting. Donald Trump (R) would have defeated Joe Biden (D) 61.1%-36.6%.[2]

Candidate filing deadline Primary election General election
March 12, 2024
May 21, 2024
November 5, 2024


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. Oregon generally utilizes a closed primary process. The selection of a party's candidates in an election is limited to registered party members for presidential and legislative elections.[3][4]

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

This page focuses on Oregon's 2nd Congressional District Republican primary. For more in-depth information on the district's Democratic primary and the general election, see the following pages:

Candidates and election results


Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Oregon District 2

Incumbent Cliff Bentz defeated Jason Beebe in the Republican primary for U.S. House Oregon District 2 on May 21, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Cliff Bentz
Cliff Bentz
 
81.3
 
73,031
Image of Jason Beebe
Jason Beebe Candidate Connection
 
18.3
 
16,403
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.4
 
360

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 89,794
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Candidate profiles

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Jason Beebe

Image of Jason Beebe

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Party: Republican Party

Incumbent: No

Political Office: None

Submitted Biography:  "I am an American First candidate that is tired of Republicans not fighting for our rights. I am a combat Veteran of the War in Iraq, and I'm the current Mayor of Prineville Oregon. I want to preserve our freedoms that are guaranteed within the Constitution and fight for your rights. Together we can get this nation back on track."

Key Messages

To read this candidate's full survey responses, click here.

Border Security: We must finish building the border wall and stop the invasion of illegal immigrants into our country. Human trafficking and drugs are destroying our nation and it is time to stop this. I will never vote for a budget that contains sending money to other nations for their border security when we won't secure our own.

Personal Freedom: Our rights, guaranteed within the Constitution, are under attack by Democrats and some members of the Republican Party. I am running to stop one of those Republicans from further endangering our State and Country. This includes the 1st, 2nd, and 4th Amendments of the Constitution.

America First: I will put America First in everything I do as a Congressman. We owe it to our own people to take care of their needs first, and not that of Ukraine or any other nation right now. Our homeless Veterans and Americans deserve more than the slap in the face they have received from our government when that same government is sending billions to other countries.

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Oregon District 2 in 2024.

Voting information

See also: Voting in Oregon

Election information in Oregon: May 21, 2024, election.

What was the voter registration deadline?

  • In-person: April 30, 2024
  • By mail: Received by April 30, 2024
  • Online: April 30, 2024

Was absentee/mail-in voting available to all voters?

N/A

What was the absentee/mail-in ballot request deadline?

  • In-person: N/A
  • By mail: N/A by N/A
  • Online: N/A

What was the absentee/mail-in ballot return deadline?

  • In-person: May 21, 2024
  • By mail: Postmarked by May 21, 2024

Was early voting available to all voters?

N/A

What were the early voting start and end dates?

N/A to N/A

Were all voters required to present ID at the polls? If so, was a photo or non-photo ID required?

N/A

When were polls open on Election Day?

7:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. (MST/PST)


Campaign finance

Name Party Receipts* Disbursements** Cash on hand Date
Cliff Bentz Republican Party $1,133,834 $749,404 $1,056,345 As of December 31, 2024
Jason Beebe Republican Party $0 $0 $0 Data not available***

Source: Federal Elections Commission, "Campaign finance data," 2024. 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.
*** Candidate either did not report any receipts or disbursements to the FEC, or Ballotpedia did not find an FEC candidate ID.

District analysis

Click the tabs below to view information about voter composition, past elections, and demographics in both the district and the state.

  • District map - A map of the district in place for the election.
  • Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
  • Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the district and the state.
  • State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.


Below was the map in use at the time of the election. Click the map below to enlarge it.

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See also: Primary election competitiveness in state and federal government, 2024

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

Oregon U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2024
Year Districts/
offices 		Seats Open seats Candidates Possible primaries Contested Democratic primaries Contested Republican primaries % of contested primaries Incumbents in contested primaries % of incumbents in contested primaries
2024 6 6 1 30 12 5 4 75% 3 60.0%
2022 6 6 2 45 12 6 4 83.3% 4 100.0%
2020 5 5 1 40 10 5 5 100.0% 4 100.0%
2018 5 5 0 32 10 5 4 90.0% 5 100.0%
2016 5 5 0 19 10 3 4 70.0% 4 80.0%
2014 5 5 0 17 10 2 3 50.0% 2 40.0%

Post-filing deadline analysis

The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Oregon in 2024. Information below was calculated on April 13, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.

Thirty candidates ran for Oregon’s six U.S. House districts, including 17 Democrats and 13 Republicans. That’s 5.0 candidates per district, less than the 7.5 candidates per district in 2022, the 8.0 candidates per district in 2020, and the 6.4 candidates in 2018.

The 30 candidates who ran in Oregon in 2024 were the fewest number of candidates since 2016, when 19 candidates ran.

The 3rd Congressional District was the only open district, meaning no incumbents filed to run. There were two seats open in 2022 and one seat in 2020.

Incumbent Earl Blumenauer (D-3rd) did not running for re-election because he retired from public office.

Ten candidates—seven Democrats and three Republicans—ran for the open 3rd Congressional District, the most candidates who ran for a seat in Oregon in 2024.

Nine primaries—five Democratic and four Republican—were contested in 2024. Ten primaries were contested in 2022 and 2020, respectively.

Three incumbents—two Democrats and one Republican—faced primary challengers in 2024, the fewest since 2014 when two incumbents faced primary challengers.

Candidates filed to run in the Republican and Democratic primaries in all six districts, meaning no seats were guaranteed to either party.

Partisan Voter Index

See also: The Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index

Heading into the 2024 elections, based on results from the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections, the Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district was R+15. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 15 percentage points more Republican than the national average. This made Oregon's 2nd the 81st most Republican district nationally.[5]

2020 presidential election results

The table below shows what the vote in the 2020 presidential election would have been in this district. The presidential election data was compiled by Daily Kos.

2020 presidential results in Oregon's 2nd based on 2024 district lines
Joe Biden Democratic Party Donald Trump Republican Party
36.6% 61.1%

Inside Elections Baselines

See also: Inside Elections

Inside Elections' Baseline is a figure that analyzes all federal and statewide election results from the district over the past four election cycles. The results are combined in an index estimating the strength of a typical Democratic or Republican candidate in the congressional district.[6] The table below displays the Baseline data for this district.

Inside Elections Baseline for 2024
Democratic Baseline Democratic Party Republican Baseline Republican Party Difference
34.1 59.7 D+25.6

Presidential voting history

See also: Presidential election in Oregon, 2020

Oregon presidential election results (1900-2020)

  • 15 Democratic wins
  • 16 Republican wins
Year 1900 1904 1908 1912 1916 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1940 1944 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020
Winning Party R R R D R R R R D D D D R R R R D R R R R R D D D D D D D D D
See also: Party control of Oregon state government

Congressional delegation

The table below displays the partisan composition of Oregon's congressional delegation as of May 2024.

Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Oregon
Party U.S. Senate U.S. House Total
Democratic 2 5 7
Republican 0 1 1
Independent 0 0 0
Vacancies 0 0 0
Total 2 6 8

State executive

The table below displays the officeholders in Oregon's top three state executive offices as of May 2024.

State executive officials in Oregon, May 2024
Office Officeholder
Governor Democratic Party Tina Kotek
Secretary of State Democratic Party LaVonne Griffin-Valade
Attorney General Democratic Party Ellen Rosenblum

State legislature

Oregon State Senate

Party As of February 2024
     Democratic Party 17
     Republican Party 12
     Independent 0
     Independent Party of Oregon 1
     Other 0
     Vacancies 0
Total 30

Oregon House of Representatives

Party As of February 2024
     Democratic Party 35
     Republican Party 25
     Other 0
     Vacancies 0
Total 60

Trifecta control

The table below shows the state's trifecta status from 1992 until the 2024 election.

Oregon Party Control: 1992-2024
Sixteen years of Democratic trifectas  •  No Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.

Year 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Governor D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D
Senate D D D R R R R R R R R S S D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D
House R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R D D D D S S D D D D D D D D D D D D

Ballot access

The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in Oregon in the 2024 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in Oregon, click here.

Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2024
State Office Party Signatures required Filing fee Filing deadline Source
Oregon U.S. House Ballot-qualified party 1,000[7] $100.00 3/12/2024 Source
Oregon U.S. House Unaffiliated 4,749 N/A 8/27/2024 Source

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ A majority in the U.S. House when there are no vacancies is 218 seats.
  2. ↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' 2020 presidential results by congressional district, for new and old districts," accessed September 15, 2022
  3. ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures,"State Primary Election Types," accessed October 4, 2024
  4. ↑ Oregon Secretary of State,"Frequently Asked Questions," accessed October 4, 2024
  5. ↑ Cook Political Report, "The 2022 Cook Partisan Voting Index (Cook PVI℠)," accessed January 10, 2024
  6. ↑ Inside Elections, "Methodology: Inside Elections’ Baseline by Congressional District," December 8, 2023
  7. ↑ Petition signatures only required in lieu of a filing fee.


Oregon's current delegation to the United States Congress
Senators
Jeff Merkley (D)
Ron Wyden (D)
Representatives
District 1
District 2
District 3
District 4
Val Hoyle (D)
District 5
District 6
Democratic Party (7)
Republican Party (1)


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