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United States House elections in Iowa, 2022 (June 7 Republican primaries)
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Iowa 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 June 7, 2022. The filing deadline was March 18, 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 Iowa, state law provides for a closed primary where every voter must be affiliated with a party in order to participate in its primary. However, a voter can change his or her political party affiliation on Election Day, creating what is effectively an open primary.[1]
For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.
This page focuses on Iowa'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 Iowa, 2022 (June 7 Democratic primaries)
- United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa, 2022
Candidates and election results
District 1
Republican primary candidates
- Mariannette Miller-Meeks (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
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District 2
Republican primary candidates
- Ashley Hinson (Incumbent) ✔
District 3
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
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District 4
Republican primary candidates
- Randy Feenstra (Incumbent) ✔
Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Iowa.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Iowa in 2022. Information below was calculated on May 20, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Ten candidates filed to run for Iowa’s four U.S. House districts, including four Democrats and six Republicans. That’s 2.5 candidates per district, less than the 4.5 candidates per district in 2020 and the four in 2018.
This was the first election to take place under new district lines following the 2020 census. Iowa was apportioned four districts, the same number it was apportioned after the 2010 census. The 10 candidates running this year were the fewest candidates running for Iowa's U.S. House seats since at least 2012, when 11 candidates filed.
All four incumbents filed to run for re-election, meaning there were no open seats this year. The Republican primary in the 3rd district was the only contested primary. That’s the fewest contested primaries since at least 2012, when three primaries were contested. There were four contested primaries each year from 2014 to 2020.
No incumbent faced a primary challenger. That’s the lowest number since 2014, when no incumbent faced a primary challenger either. One incumbent faced a primary challenger in both 2020 and 2018, and two incumbents did in 2016. Candidates filed to run in the Republican and Democratic primaries in all four districts, so no seats were guaranteed to either party this year.
See also
- United States House elections in Iowa, 2022 (June 7 Democratic primaries)
- United States House Republican Party primaries, 2022
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2022
- U.S. House battlegrounds, 2022
Footnotes
