United States House elections in Arkansas, 2022 (May 24 Republican primaries)
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Arkansas were on November 8, 2022. Voters elected four candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's four U.S. House districts. The primary was scheduled for May 24, 2022, and a primary runoff was scheduled for June 21, 2022. The filing deadline was March 1, 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. Arkansas utilizes an open primary system. Registered voters do not have to be members of a party to vote in that party's primary.[1][2]
For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.
This page focuses on Arkansas' 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 Arkansas, 2022 (May 24 Democratic primaries)
- United States House of Representatives elections in Arkansas, 2022
Candidates and election results
District 1
Republican primary candidates
- Rick Crawford (Incumbent) ✔
- Jody Shackelford
- Brandt Smith
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 2
Republican primary candidates
- French Hill (Incumbent) ✔
- Conrad Reynolds
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 3
Republican primary candidates
- Steve Womack (Incumbent) ✔
- Neil Kumar
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 4
Republican primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Bruce Westerman (Incumbent) ✔
Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Arkansas.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Arkansas in 2022. Information below was calculated on April 8, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
In 2022, 16 candidates filed to run for Arkansas' four U.S. House districts, including eight Republicans, four Democrats, three Libertarians, and one independent. That's an average of 4 candidates per district, more than the 2.3 candidates per district in 2020 and fewer than the 5.5 in 2018.
This was the first candidate filing deadline under new district lines adopted during the redistricting process following the 2020 Census. Arkansas was apportioned the same number of congressional districts as after the 2010 census.
Incumbents filed to run in every election. The last time Arkansas had an open U.S. House district was during the 2014 elections when two incumbents didn't run. Of the four incumbents who filed for re-election, one—Rep. Bruce Westerman (R)—did not draw any primary challengers. As of the filing deadline, the three remaining incumbents faced contested primaries, marking the highest number of incumbents in contested primaries (3, or 75%) since at least 2012. The second-highest was in 2018 when two incumbents (50% of those seeking re-election) faced contested primaries. No incumbents had primary challengers in 2020.
See also
- United States House elections in Arkansas, 2022 (May 24 Democratic primaries)
- United States House Republican Party primaries, 2022
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2022
- U.S. House battlegrounds, 2022
Footnotes
- ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures Website, "State Primary Election Types," accessed April 3, 2023
- ↑ Ballotpedia research conducted December 26, 2013, through January 3, 2014, researching and analyzing various state websites and codes.
