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United States House elections in Massachusetts, 2022 (September 6 Republican primaries)
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts were on November 8, 2022. Voters elected nine candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's nine U.S. House districts. The primary was scheduled for September 6, 2022. The filing deadline was June 7, 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. Massachusetts utilizes a semi-closed primary system. An unaffiliated voter is allowed to vote in the primary election of his or her choice.[1][2]
For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.
This page focuses on Massachusetts' 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 Massachusetts, 2022 (September 6 Democratic primaries)
- United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts, 2022
Candidates and election results
District 1
Republican primary candidates
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District 2
Republican primary candidates
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District 3
Republican primary candidates
District 4
Republican primary candidates
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District 5
Republican primary candidates
District 6
Republican primary candidates
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District 7
Republican primary candidates
District 8
Republican primary candidates
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District 9
Republican primary candidates
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Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Massachusetts.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Massachusetts in 2022. Information below was calculated on August 29, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Nineteen candidates ran for Massachusetts's nine U.S. House districts, including nine Democrats and ten Republicans. That's 2.1 candidates per district, less than the three candidates per district in 2020 and the 3.44 in 2018.
This was the first election to take place under new district lines following the 2020 census. Massachusetts was apportioned nine districts, the same number it was apportioned after the 2010 census. The 19 candidates who ran this year were eight fewer than the 27 candidates who ran in 2020 and 12 fewer than the 31 who ran in 2018. Fourteen candidates ran in 2016, 20 in 2014, and 28 in 2012.
All incumbents filed to run for re-election, meaning there were no open seats this year. There was one open seat in 2020 and 2018, no open seats in 2016 and 2014, and one open seat in 2012.
The 8th and 9th districts drew the most candidates in 2022, with one Democrat and two Republicans running in each. There were two contested primaries this year, both Republican. That number was three fewer than in 2020, when there were five contested primaries, and six fewer than in 2018, when there were eight contested primaries. There was one contested primary in 2016, three in 2014, and nine in 2012.
No incumbents faced primary challengers this year. That number was down from 2020, when three incumbents faced primary challengers, and 2018, when five incumbents did. No incumbents faced primary challengers in 2016, two did in 2014, and three did in 2012.
The 4th district was guaranteed to Democrats because no Republicans filed. No districts were guaranteed to Republicans because no Democrats filed.
See also
- United States House elections in Massachusetts, 2022 (September 6 Democratic primaries)
- United States House Republican Party primaries, 2022
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2022
- U.S. House battlegrounds, 2022
Footnotes
