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United States House election in Wyoming, 2024 (August 20 Republican primary)

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Democratic primary
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Election details
Filing deadline: May 31, 2024
Primary: August 20, 2024
General: November 5, 2024
Pre-election incumbent:
Harriet Hageman (Republican)
How to vote
Poll times: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Voting in Wyoming
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
See also
Wyoming's At-large Congressional District
U.S. Senate • At-large
Wyoming elections, 2024
U.S. Congress elections, 2024
U.S. Senate elections, 2024
U.S. House elections, 2024

The U.S. House of Representatives election in Wyoming was on November 5, 2024. Voters elected one candidate to serve in the U.S. House from the state's one at-large U.S. House district. The primary was August 20, 2024. The filing deadline was May 31, 2024.

Candidate filing deadline Primary election General election
May 31, 2024
August 20, 2024
November 5, 2024


Heading into the election, the incumbent was Harriet Hageman (Republican), who was first elected in 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. Wyoming utilizes a closed primary process.[1][2]

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

This page focuses on Wyoming's Republican primary for the U.S. House. For more in-depth information on the state's Democratic primary and the general election, see the following pages:

Candidates and election results

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Wyoming At-large District

Incumbent Harriet Hageman defeated Steven Helling in the Republican primary for U.S. House Wyoming At-large District on August 20, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Harriet Hageman
Harriet Hageman
 
78.9
 
82,783
Image of Steven Helling
Steven Helling Candidate Connection
 
18.8
 
19,743
 Other/Write-in votes
 
2.3
 
2,424

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

Total votes: 104,950
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Candidate profiles

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Steven Helling

Image of Steven Helling

Party: Republican Party

Incumbent: No

Political Office: None

Submitted Biography:  "I am a Christian. I am very pro life. I am a huge supporter of President Trump. I am running for office for several reasons. First, I wanted to give the voters a choice. It is very American to have a choice on the ballot. I remembered that Harriet Hageman had refused to debate her Democratic challenger in the 2022 election and I was disappointed. She was going to go to Washington, D.C. and spar with some of the biggest mouths in the country and yet she was unwilling to debate her political opponent in Wyoming? When I saw no one intended to challenge Harriet Hageman, I thought I would present the voters with a choice. I was recently advised that she would not participate in a debate scheduled by Wyoming PBS, such that the debate was cancelled,. Again, I was disappointed. She has confirmed her unwillingness to debate her Wyoming opponents. In running for office, my plan was not to attack Ms. Hageman but to show differences. I am willing to debate anytime and any place. I support federal legislation to restrict abortions. Until there is a permanent storage site for heavily radioactive nuclear waste, I am against the construction of new nuclear power plants, including the experimental plant in Kemmerer, which will be the first of its kind, in terms of using high assay, bomb-grade uranium as its fuel source. There will be no prototype built. We are selling out and burdening hundreds of future generations in exchange for money now. e should all hold our heads in shame."

Key Messages

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

I am a Christian. Jesus Christ is Lord.

I am very pro life and will support federal legislation to restrict abortions,. Someone needs to be in President Trump's ear on this, I am optimistic President Trump can be convinced to support federal legislation restricting abortions once he is in office, even though he does not favor such legislation at the present time.

I am against new nuclear construction, in Kemmerer and elsewhere,. There is no place to store nuclear waste and no one in favor of nuclear power appears to be addressing this problem. In Germany, where they shut down their last nuclear reactor in 2023, a government official said although 3 generations of Germans had received benefit from nuclear power, about 30,000 generations were going to be burdened with radioactive waste, which would be dangerous for many thousands of years. How would they label the waste site so that people, 100,000 or more years from now would be warned, since languages and symbols could change over that period of time? It seems insane to create more nuclear waste when there is no permanent place for its storage.

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Wyoming At-large District in 2024.

Voting information

See also: Voting in Wyoming

Election information in Wyoming: Aug. 20, 2024, election.

What was the voter registration deadline?

  • In-person: Aug. 20, 2024
  • By mail: Received by Aug. 5, 2024
  • Online: N/A

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

N/A

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

  • In-person: Aug. 19, 2024
  • By mail: Received by Aug. 19, 2024
  • Online: N/A

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

  • In-person: Aug. 20, 2024
  • By mail: Received by Aug. 20, 2024

Was early voting available to all voters?

N/A

What were the early voting start and end dates?

July 23, 2024 to Aug. 19, 2024

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. - 7:00 p.m. (MST)


Campaign finance

This section contains campaign finance figures from the Federal Election Commission covering all candidate fundraising and spending in this election.[3] 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.[4]

Name Party Receipts* Disbursements** Cash on hand Date
Harriet Hageman Republican Party $3,070,025 $2,461,851 $882,963 As of December 31, 2024
Steven Helling 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

  • 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.


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

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

Wyoming U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2024
Office 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 1 1 0 3 2 0 1 50.0% 1 100.0%
2022 1 1 0 9 2 1 1 100.0% 1 100.0%
2020 1 1 0 5 2 1 1 100.0% 1 100.0%
2018 1 1 0 5 2 1 1 100.0% 1 100.0%
2016 1 1 1 10 2 1 1 100.0% 0 N/A
2014 1 1 0 3 2 0 1 50.0% 1 100.0%

Post-filing deadline analysis

The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Wyoming in 2024. Information below was calculated on June 23, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.

Three candidates ran for Wyoming’s one U.S. House district, including one Democrat and two Republicans. Nine candidates ran in 2022, five candidates ran in 2020, and five ran in 2018.

The three candidates who ran in Wyoming in 2024 was the fewest number of candidates since 2014, when three candidates ran.

Wyoming's At-Large Congressional District was not open in 2024 because incumbent Rep. Harriet Hageman (R) ran for re-election. The only election year that the district was open in the last 10 years was 2016.

The Democratic primary is uncontested this year. The last time that the Democratic primary was uncontested was 2014. The Republican primary has been contested every year since 2014.

Candidates filed to run in the Republican and Democratic primaries, meaning the seat was not 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+25. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 25 percentage points more Republican than the national average. This made Wyoming's At-Large the 12th 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 Wyoming's At-Large based on 2024 district lines
Joe Biden Democratic Party Donald Trump Republican Party
26.7% 70.4%

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
25.7 70.5 R+44.8

Presidential voting history

See also: Presidential election in Wyoming, 2020

Wyoming presidential election results (1900-2020)

  • 7 Democratic wins
  • 24 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 D R R R D D D R D R R R D R R R R R R R R R R R R R R
See also: Party control of Wyoming state government

Congressional delegation

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

Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Wyoming
Party U.S. Senate U.S. House Total
Democratic 0 0 0
Republican 2 1 3
Independent 0 0 0
Vacancies 0 0 0
Total 2 1 3

State executive

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

State executive officials in Wyoming, May 2024
Office Officeholder
Governor Republican Party Mark Gordon
Secretary of State Republican Party Chuck Gray
Attorney General Republican Party Bridget Hill

State legislature

Wyoming State Senate

Party As of February 2024
     Democratic Party 2
     Republican Party 29
     Other 0
     Vacancies 0
Total 31

Wyoming House of Representatives

Party As of February 2024
     Democratic Party 5
     Republican Party 57
     Independent 0
     Libertarian Party 0
     Other 0
     Vacancies 0
Total 62

Trifecta control

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

Wyoming Party Control: 1992-2024
No Democratic trifectas  •  Twenty-two years of 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 R R R R R R R R D D D D D D D D R R R R R R R R R R R R R R
Senate R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R
House R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R

Ballot access

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

Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2024
State Office Party Signatures required Filing fee Filing deadline Source
Wyoming U.S. House Ballot-qualified party N/A $750.00 5/31/2024 Source
Wyoming U.S. House Minor party N/A $750.00 8/19/2024 Source
Wyoming U.S. House Unaffiliated 3,891 $750.00 8/26/2024 Source

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Wyoming Legislature, "Wyo. Stat. § 22–5–212," accessed September 16, 2025
  2. ↑ Wyoming Legislature, "Wyo. Stat. § 22–16–103," accessed September 16, 2025
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ Federal Election Commission, "2022 Quarterly Reports," accessed March 2, 2022
  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
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