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United States House elections in Kentucky, 2022 (May 17 Republican 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 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 Kentucky, 2022 (May 17 Democratic primaries)
- United States House of Representatives elections in Kentucky, 2022
Candidates and election results
District 1
Republican primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- James Comer Jr. (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
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District 2
Republican primary candidates
- Brett Guthrie (Incumbent) ✔
- Brent Feher
- Lee Watts
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 3
Republican primary candidates
- Daniel Cobble
- Mike Craven
- Justin Gregory
- Darien Barrios Moreno
- Rhonda Palazzo
- Gregory Puccetti
- Stuart Ray ✔
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 4
Republican primary candidates
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 5
Republican primary candidates
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 6
Republican primary candidates
- Andy Barr (Incumbent) ✔
- Derek Leonard Petteys
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Kansas.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Kansas in 2022. Information below was calculated on July 5, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Nine candidates filed to run in Kansas' four U.S. House districts, including four Democrats and five Republicans. That's 2.25 candidates per district, down from 4.75 in 2020 and six in 2018.
This was the first election to take place under new district lines following the 2020 census. Kansas was apportioned four districts, the same number it was apportioned after the 2010 census. The nine candidates who filed to run this year were the fewest since 2012, when nine candidates ran as well. That number was down from 2020, when 19 candidates filed to run, and 2018, when 24 candidates filed.
There were no open seats this year, down from one in both 2020 and 2018. No incumbents faced primary challengers for the first time since 2012. That number was down from one in 2020 and three in 2018.
Republican and Democratic candidates filed to run in all four districts, so no seats were guaranteed to either party. The Republican primary in the 3rd district was the only contested primary this year, a decade-low. That number was down from five contested primaries in 2020 and six in 2018.
See also
- United States House elections in Kentucky, 2022 (May 17 Democratic primaries)
- United States House Republican 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
