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United States House elections in Georgia, 2022 (May 24 Democratic primaries)
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Georgia were on November 8, 2022. Voters elected 14 candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's 14 U.S. House districts. The primary was scheduled for May 24, 2022, and a primary runoff was scheduled for June 21, 2022. A general runoff election was scheduled for December 6, 2022. The filing deadline was March 11, 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. Georgia utilizes an open primary system, in which 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 Georgia'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 Georgia, 2022 (May 24 Republican primaries)
- United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia, 2022
Candidates and election results
District 1
Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
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District 2
Democratic primary candidates
- Sanford Bishop Jr. (Incumbent) ✔
- Joseph O'Hara
District 3
Democratic primary candidates
District 4
Democratic primary candidates
- Hank Johnson (Incumbent) ✔
District 5
Democratic primary candidates
- Nikema Williams (Incumbent) ✔
- Charlotte Macbagito
- Valencia Stovall
Did not make the ballot:
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District 6
Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 7
Democratic primary candidates
- Carolyn Bourdeaux (Incumbent)
- Lucy McBath (Incumbent) ✔
- Donna McLeod
District 8
Democratic primary candidates
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District 9
Democratic primary candidates
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District 10
Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 11
Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 12
Democratic primary candidates
District 13
Democratic primary candidates
- David Scott (Incumbent) ✔
- Mark Baker
- Shastity Driscoll
- Vincent Fort
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 14
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 Georgia.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Georgia in 2022. Information below was calculated on May 19, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Eighty-two candidates filed to run in Georgia’s 14 U.S. House districts, including 31 Democrats and 51 Republicans. That’s 5.86 candidates per district, more than the 5.5 candidates per district in 2020 and the 3.42 in 2018. This was the first election to take place under new district lines following the 2020 census. Georgia was apportioned 14 districts, the same number it was apportioned after the 2010 census.
The 82 candidates who ran this year were the most candidates running for Georgia's U.S. House seats since at least 2012, the earliest year for which we have data.
Two seats — the 6th and the 10th — were open, meaning no incumbents filed to run. That’s one less than in 2020, when three seats were open. There were no open seats in 2018, one in 2016, and three in 2014. Rep. Jody Hice (R), who represented the 10th district, ran for Georgia Secretary of State. Thirteen candidates — five Democrats and eight Republicans — ran to replace him, the most candidates running for a seat this year.
Rep. Lucy McBath (D), who represented the 6th district, ran in the 7th district. She was the only incumbent running in a different district than the one she represented. Rep. Carolyn Bourdeaux (D), the incumbent in the 7th district, ran for re-election. That made the 7th district the only district featuring two incumbents running against each other.
There were eight contested Democratic primaries this year, the same number as in 2020 and 2018, and nine contested Republican primaries, one more than in 2020 and the highest number since at least 2012. There were eight incumbents in contested primaries, the most since at least 2012.
Five incumbents did not face any primary challengers. Candidates filed to run in the Republican and Democratic primaries in all 14 districts, so no seats were guaranteed to either party this year. The last year in which a party was guaranteed a seat because no candidate from the other party filed was 2018, when then-incumbent Rep. John Lewis (D) ran unopposed in the general election for the 5th district.
See also
- United States House elections in Georgia, 2022 (May 24 Republican primaries)
- United States House Democratic Party primaries, 2022
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2022
- U.S. House battlegrounds, 2022
Footnotes
- ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures, "State Primary Election Types," accessed August 12, 2024
- ↑ Justia, "2023 Georgia Code § 21-2-224 - Registration deadlines; restrictions on voting in primaries; official list of electors; voting procedure when portion of county changed from one county to another," accessed August 12, 2024
