United States House elections in Florida, 2022 (August 23 Republican primaries)
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Florida were on November 8, 2022. Voters elected 28 candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's 28 U.S. House districts. The primary was scheduled for August 23, 2022. The filing deadline was June 17, 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. Florida utilizes a closed primary process, in which the selection of a party's candidates in an election is limited to registered party members.[1][2]
For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.
This page focuses on Florida'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 Florida, 2022 (August 23 Democratic primaries)
- United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, 2022
Candidates and election results
District 1
Republican primary candidates
- Matt Gaetz (Incumbent) ✔
- Mark Lombardo
- Greg Merk
Did not make the ballot:
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District 2
Republican primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Neal Dunn (Incumbent) ✔
District 3
Republican primary candidates
- Kat Cammack (Incumbent) ✔
- Justin Waters
Did not make the ballot:
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District 4
Republican primary candidates
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District 5
Republican primary candidates
- John Rutherford (Incumbent) ✔
- Leigha Garner-Lopez
- Mara Macie
Did not make the ballot:
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District 6
Republican primary candidates
- Michael Waltz (Incumbent) ✔
- Charles E. Davis
District 7
Republican primary candidates
- Erika Benfield
- Brady Duke
- Ted Edwards
- Cory Mills ✔
- Russell Roberts
- Anthony Sabatini
- Al Santos
- Scott Sturgill
Did not make the ballot:
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District 8
Republican primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Bill Posey (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
District 9
Republican primary candidates
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District 10
Republican primary candidates
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District 11
Republican primary candidates
- Daniel Webster (Incumbent) ✔
- Laura Loomer
- Gavriel E. Soriano
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District 12
Republican primary candidates
- Gus M. Bilirakis (Incumbent) ✔
- Chris Leiser
- Jack Martin
- Brian Perras
- Sid Preskitt
Did not make the ballot:
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District 13
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
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District 14
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
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District 15
Republican primary candidates
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District 16
Republican primary candidates
- Vern Buchanan (Incumbent) ✔
- Martin Hyde
District 17
Republican primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Greg Steube (Incumbent) ✔
District 18
Republican primary candidates
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District 19
Republican primary candidates
- Byron Donalds (Incumbent) ✔
- Jim Huff
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District 20
Republican primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
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District 21
Republican primary candidates
- Brian Mast (Incumbent) ✔
- Jeffrey Buongiorno
- Melissa Martz
- Ljubo Skrbic
Did not make the ballot:
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District 22
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
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District 23
Republican primary candidates
- Joe Budd ✔
- Darlene Cerezo Swaffar
- Steve Chess
- Christy McLaughlin
- Myles Perrone
- James Pruden
- Ira Weinstein
Did not make the ballot:
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District 24
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
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District 25
Republican primary candidates
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District 26
Republican primary candidates
- Mario Diaz-Balart (Incumbent) ✔
- Darren Dione Aquino
Did not make the ballot:
District 27
Republican primary candidates
- Maria Elvira Salazar (Incumbent) ✔
- Frank Polo Sr.
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District 28
Republican primary candidates
- Carlos Gimenez (Incumbent) ✔
- Carlos Garin
- K.W. Miller
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Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Florida.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Florida in 2022. Information below was calculated on August 16, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
One hundred fifty-two candidates filed to run for Florida's 28 U.S. House districts, including 58 Democrats and 94 Republicans. That's 5.43 candidates per district, more than the 4.22 candidates per district in 2020 and the 3.86 in 2018.
This was the first election to take place under new district lines following the 2020 census, which resulted in Florida gaining one U.S. House district. The 152 candidates who filed to run this year were a decade-high. One hundred fourteen candidates ran in 2020, 104 in 2018, 100 in 2016, 75 in 2014, and 89 in 2012.
A total of eight incumbents ran in districts different from the ones they represented before the election.
Two incumbents from different parties filed to run against each other in the 2nd district. Rep. Al Lawson (D), who represented the 5th district, filed to run against 2nd district incumbent Rep. Neal Dunn (R) in the general election.
Four incumbents did not run for re-election. Rep. Charlie Crist (D), who represented the 13th district, ran for governor, and Rep. Val Demings (D), who represented the 10th district, ran for the U.S. Senate. Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D), who represented the 7th district, and Rep. Ted Deutch (D), who represented the 22nd district, retired.
Six seats were open, including Crist's, Demings', and Murphy's. The three remaining open seats were the 4th, the 15th, and the 23rd. Rep. John Rutherford (R), who represented the 4th district, ran in the 5th this year, and Rep. Scott Franklin (R), who represented the 15th district, ran in the 18th. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, who represented the 23rd district, ran in the 25th. The six open seats this year were four more than in 2020, when two seats were open, and two more than in 2018, when four seats were open. Seven seats were open in 2016, and no seats were open in 2014.
Sixteen candidates—ten Democrats and six Republicans—ran to replace Demings in the 10th district, the most candidates who ran for a seat this year.
There were 38 contested primaries this year, a decade-high. That was nine more than in 2020, when there were 29 contested primaries, and seven more than in 2018, when there were 31 contested primaries. Fourteen of the contested primaries were Democratic primaries. That was four more than in 2020, when there were ten contested Democratic primaries, and five fewer than in 2018, when there were 19. Twenty-four of the contested primaries were Republican primaries. That number, a decade-high, was five more than in 2020, when there were 19 contested Republican primaries, and 12 more than in 2018, when there were 12.
There were 17 incumbents in contested primaries this year, also a decade-high. That number was seven more than in 2020, when ten incumbents faced contested primaries, and six more than in 2018, when 11 incumbents did. Six incumbents faced no primary challengers this year. Three seats—the 5th, the 6th, and the 18th districts—were guaranteed to Republicans because no Democrats filed. No seats were guaranteed to Democrats because no Republicans filed.
See also
- United States House elections in Florida, 2022 (August 23 Democratic primaries)
- United States House Republican Party primaries, 2022
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2022
- U.S. House battlegrounds, 2022
Footnotes
