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United States House elections in Arizona, 2022 (August 2 Republican primaries)
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Arizona were on November 8, 2022. Voters elected nine candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's nine U.S. House districts. The primary was scheduled for August 2, 2022. The filing deadline was April 4, 2022.
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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. Arizona utilizes a semi-closed primary system. Unaffiliated voters may choose which party's primary they will vote in, but voters registered with a party can only vote in that party's primary.[1][2][3]
For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.
This page focuses on Arizona's Republican primaries for the U.S. House. For more in-depth information on the state's Democratic primaries and the general election, see the following pages:
- United States House elections in Arizona, 2022 (August 2 Democratic primaries)
- United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona, 2022
Candidates and election results
District 1
Republican primary candidates
- David Schweikert (Incumbent) ✔
- Josh Barnett
- Elijah Norton
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District 2
Republican primary candidates
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District 3
Republican primary candidates
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District 4
Republican primary candidates
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District 5
Republican primary candidates
- Andy Biggs (Incumbent) ✔
- Jim Beall (Write-in)
- David Boels (Write-in)
- Martin Callan (Write-in)
District 6
Republican primary candidates
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District 7
Republican primary candidates
- Nina Becker
- Luis Pozzolo ✔
- David Reetz (Write-in)
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District 8
Republican primary candidates
- Debbie Lesko (Incumbent) ✔
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District 9
Republican primary candidates
- Paul Gosar (Incumbent) ✔
- Sandra Dowling
- Randy Kutz
- Adam Morgan
- Jack Harper (Write-in)
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Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Arizona.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Arizona in 2022. Information below was calculated on June 23, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Thirty-nine candidates filed to run in Arizona's nine U.S. House districts, including 10 Democrats and 29 Republicans. That's 4.33 candidates per district, more than the 4.22 candidates per district in 2020 and the 4.11 in 2018.
This was the first election to take place under new district lines following the 2020 census. Arizona was apportioned nine districts, the same number it was apportioned after the 2010 census. The 39 candidates who filed to run this year were the most candidates running for Arizona's U.S. House seats since at least 2014, the earliest year for which we have data.
One district — the 6th — was open. That’s one more than in 2020, and one less than in 2018. Rep. David Schweikert (R), who represented the 6th district, filed to run in the 1st district. Rep. Tom O'Halleran (D), who represented the 1st district, filed to run in the 2nd district, where incumbent Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (D) did not seek re-election.
The 2nd and 6th districts attracted the most candidates this year, with eight candidates running in each. There were eight contested primaries this year — two Democratic and six Republican. That's the fewest contested primaries since 2014, when there were five contested primaries.
Six incumbents — four Democrats and two Republicans — did not face any primary challengers. The 8th and 9th districts were guaranteed to Republicans because no Democrats filed to run. No districts were guaranteed to Democrats because no Republicans filed.
See also
- United States House elections in Arizona, 2022 (August 2 Democratic primaries)
- United States House Republican Party primaries, 2022
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2022
- U.S. House battlegrounds, 2022
Footnotes
