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United States House elections in Kentucky, 2022 (May 17 Democratic primaries)
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Kentucky were on November 8, 2022. Voters elected six candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's six U.S. House districts. The primary was scheduled for May 17, 2022. The filing deadline was January 25, 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. Kentucky 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][3]
For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.
This page focuses on Kentucky'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 Kentucky, 2022 (May 17 Republican primaries)
- United States House of Representatives elections in Kentucky, 2022
Candidates and election results
District 1
Democratic primary candidates
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District 2
Democratic primary candidates
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District 3
Democratic primary candidates
District 4
Democratic primary candidates
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District 5
Democratic primary candidates
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District 6
Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
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Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Kentucky.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Kentucky in 2022. Information below was calculated on Feb. 22, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Thirty-one candidates filed to run for Kentucky's six U.S. House districts in 2022, including nine Democrats and 22 Republicans. This equals 5.2 candidates per district, the most candidates per district since 2014.
This was the first candidate filing deadline under new district lines adopted during the state's decennial redistricting process. Kentucky was apportioned six districts, the same number it received after the 2010 census.
One district—Kentucky's 3rd—was left open with Rep. John Yarmuth (D) retiring from politics. Yarmuth first won election in 2006 after defeating Rep. Anne Northup (R). The 2022 filing deadline marked the first time since 1994 that the district had been left open. The 3rd District drew the largest number of major party candidate filings overall: two Democrats and seven Republicans.
The remaining five incumbents—all Republicans—filed for re-election. Of those five, four drew primary challengers, the same number as 2020.
Eight of the 12 possible major party primaries (67%) drew more than one candidate leaving them contested. This represents more contested primaries than in 2020 and the same number as 2018.
See also
- United States House elections in Kentucky, 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
- ↑ NCSL,"State Primary Election Types," February 06, 2024
- ↑ Ballotpedia research conducted December 26, 2013, through January 3, 2014, researching and analyzing various state websites and codes.
- ↑ Kentucky State Board of Elections,"Key Information," accessed July 26, 2024
