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United States House elections in Maine, 2022 (June 14 Democratic primaries)
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Maine 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 June 14, 2022. The filing deadline was March 15, 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. Maine utilizes a semi-closed primary process, in which both registered party members and unaffiliated voters may participate. Unaffiliated voters may vote in one partisan primary of their choosing in each election.[1][2]
For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.
This page focuses on Maine'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 Maine, 2022 (June 14 Republican primaries)
- United States House of Representatives elections in Maine, 2022
Candidates and election results
District 1
Democratic primary candidates
- Chellie Pingree (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
District 2
Democratic primary candidates
- Jared Golden (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Maine.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Maine in 2022. Information below was calculated on March 29, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
In 2022, five candidates filed to run for Maine's two U.S. House districts, including three Republicans and two Democrats. That's 2.5 candidates per seat, down from 3.0 candidates per seat in 2020 and 5.0 per seat in 2018.
This was the first candidate filing deadline to take place under new district lines adopted during Maine's decennial redistricting process. Maine was apportioned two seats, the same number it was apportioned after the 2010 census.
Both incumbents—Reps. Chellie Pingree (D) and Jared Golden (D)—filed for re-election. The last time a U.S. House district in Maine was left open was in 2014 when Rep. Mike Michaud (D) ran for governor rather than for re-election in the 2nd District. Neither Pingree nor Golden drew any primary challengers; the three other candidates who filed for U.S. House were all Republicans.
See also
- United States House elections in Maine, 2022 (June 14 Republican primaries)
- United States House Democratic Party primaries, 2022
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2022
- U.S. House battlegrounds, 2022
Footnotes
