United States House elections in Colorado, 2022 (June 28 Democratic primaries)
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Colorado were on November 8, 2022. Voters elected eight candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's eight U.S. House districts. The primary was scheduled for June 28, 2022. The filing deadline was March 15, 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.
Colorado utilizes a semi-closed primary system. According to Section 1-7-201 of the Colorado Revised Statutes, "An eligible unaffiliated elector, including a preregistrant who is eligible under section 1-2-101 (2)(c), is entitled to vote in the primary election of a major political party without affiliating with that political party."[1][2]
For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.
This page focuses on Colorado's Democratic primaries for the U.S. House. For more in-depth information on the state's Republican primaries and the general election, see the following pages:
- United States House elections in Colorado, 2022 (June 28 Republican primaries)
- United States House of Representatives elections in Colorado, 2022
Candidates and election results
District 1
Democratic primary candidates
- Diana DeGette (Incumbent) ✔
- Neal Walia
Did not make the ballot:
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District 2
Democratic primary candidates
- Joe Neguse (Incumbent) ✔
District 3
Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
- Cole Buerger
- Debby Burnett
- Kerry Donovan
- Naziha In'am Hadil
- Susan Martinez
- Kellie Rhodes
- Gregg Smith
- Donald Valdez
- Colin Wilhelm
- Scott Yates
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 4
Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
District 5
Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 6
Democratic primary candidates
- Jason Crow (Incumbent) ✔
District 7
Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 8
Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Colorado.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Colorado in 2022. Information below was calculated on June 1, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Thirty candidates filed to run for Colorado’s eight U.S. House districts, including 12 Democrats and 18 Republicans. That’s 3.75 candidates per district, more than the 2.28 candidates per district in 2020 and the 3.43 in 2018.
This was the first election to take place under new district lines following the 2020 census, which resulted in Colorado gaining one congressional district. The 30 candidates who filed to run this year were the most candidates running for Colorado’s U.S. House seats since at least 2012, the earliest year for which we have data.
Two seats — the 7th and the newly-created 8th district — were open. Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D), who represented the 7th district, didn't file to run for re-election. The two open seats this year were the most open seats in Colorado since at least 2014. There were no open seats in 2020 and 2016, and one open seat in 2018 and 2014.
Six candidates, including incumbent Rep. Doug Lamborn (R), filed to run in the 5th district, the most candidates who ran for a seat this year. There were three contested Democratic primaries, the most since 2018, when five Democratic primaries were contested. There were five contested Republican primaries, the most since at least 2014, the earliest year for which we have data.
Four incumbents faced primary challengers, the most since at least 2014. Two incumbents, Rep. Joe Neguse (D) from the 2nd district and Rep. Jason Crow (D) from the 6th district, didn't face any primary challengers. Candidates filed to run in the Republican and Democratic primaries in all eight districts, so no seats are guaranteed to either party this year.
See also
- United States House elections in Colorado, 2022 (June 28 Republican primaries)
- United States House Democratic Party primaries, 2022
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2022
- U.S. House battlegrounds, 2022
Footnotes
