United States House elections in Idaho, 2022 (May 17 Democratic primaries)
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Idaho were on November 8, 2022. Voters elected two candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's two U.S. House districts. The primary was scheduled for May 17, 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. In Idaho, parties decide who may vote in their primaries. As of July 2025, the Democratic Party allows unaffiliated voters to vote in its primary, while the Republican Party only allows voters registered with its party to vote in its primary. Unaffiliated voters can choose to affiliate with a party on Election Day.[1][2][3]
For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.
This page focuses on Idaho'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 Idaho, 2022 (May 17 Republican primaries)
- United States House of Representatives elections in Idaho, 2022
Candidates and election results
District 1
Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
District 2
Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Idaho.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Idaho in 2022. Information below was calculated on March 28, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
In 2022, nine candidates—two Democrats, six Republicans, and one Libertarian—filed to run for Idaho's two U.S. House districts. That's 4.5 candidates per district, less than the 5.0 candidates per district in 2020 and 9.0 in 2018.
Both incumbents filed for re-election: Reps. Russ Fulcher (R) in District 1 and Michael Simpson (R) in District 2. The only primary that drew more than one candidate was in District 2, where Simpson was set to face four challengers as of the candidate filing deadline. Of those four challengers, one was Bryan Smith, who Simpson defeated 62-38% in the 2014 Republican primary. According to Roll Call's Nathan Gonzales, Republicans won 27 of the 28 U.S. House elections between 1994 and 2022.[4] Walt Minnick (D) won election to District 1 in 2008 and lost to Raul Labrador (R) after serving one term.
See also
- United States House elections in Idaho, 2022 (May 17 Republican primaries)
- United States House Democratic Party primaries, 2022
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2022
- U.S. House battlegrounds, 2022
Footnotes
- ↑ Idaho Secretary of State's Office, "Primary Elections in Idaho," accessed July 2, 2025
- ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures, "State Primary Election Types," accessed July 2, 2024
- ↑ ACLU Idaho, "2024 Your Rights as an Idaho Voter," accessed July 2, 2025
- ↑ Roll Call, "Bleak streak for Idaho Democrats likely to continue," Feb. 28, 2022
