United States House elections in Michigan, 2022 (August 2 Democratic primaries)
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Michigan were on November 8, 2022. Voters elected 13 candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's 13 U.S. House districts. The primary was scheduled for August 2, 2022. The filing deadline was April 19, 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. Michigan utilizes an open primary system, in which registered voters do not have to be members of a party to vote in that party's primary.[1][2]
This page focuses on Michigan'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 Michigan, 2022 (August 2 Republican primaries)
- United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan, 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
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District 4
Democratic primary candidates
- Joseph Alfonso (Write-in) ✔
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District 5
Democratic primary candidates
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District 6
Democratic primary candidates
- Debbie Dingell (Incumbent) ✔
District 7
Democratic primary candidates
- Elissa Slotkin (Incumbent) ✔
District 8
Democratic primary candidates
- Dan Kildee (Incumbent) ✔
District 9
Democratic primary candidates
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District 10
Democratic primary candidates
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District 11
Democratic primary candidates
- Andy Levin (Incumbent)
- Haley Stevens (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
District 12
Democratic primary candidates
- Rashida Tlaib (Incumbent) ✔
- Kelly Garrett
- Shanelle Jackson
- Janice Winfrey
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District 13
Democratic primary candidates
- John Conyers III
- Sherry Gay-Dagnogo
- Michael Griffie
- Adam Hollier
- Sharon McPhail
- Sam Riddle
- Portia Roberson
- Lorrie Rutledge
- Shri Thanedar ✔
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Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Michigan.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Michigan in 2022. Information below was calculated on June 27, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Fifty-three candidates filed to run in Michigan's 13 U.S. House districts, including 28 Democrats and 25 Republicans. That's 4.08 candidates per district, a decade-high, and up from the 3.93 in 2020 and 3.64 in 2018.
This was the first election to take place under new district lines following the 2020 census, which resulted in Michigan losing one U.S. House district. The 53 candidates who ran this year were two fewer than in 2020, when 55 candidates ran, and two more than in 2018, when 51 candidates ran.
Two districts — the 10th and the 13th — were open. That was one more than in 2020 and the same number as in 2018.
Rep. Lisa McClain (R), who represented the 10th district, filed to run in the 9th district this year, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D), who represented the 13th district, filed to run in the 12th. Rep. Andy Levin (D), who represented the 9th district, filed to run in the 11th district against incumbent Rep. Haley Stevens (D), making the 11th district the only district where two incumbents ran against each other.
There were four contested Democratic primaries this year, down from seven in 2020 and nine in 2018. There were nine contested Republican primaries, a decade-high. That was up from eight in 2020 and one in 2018.
There were six incumbents in contested primaries, up from four in 2020, and one in 2018. That was also one fewer than the decade-high of seven in 2012.
Five incumbents — three Democrats and two Republicans — did not face any primary challengers. One district — the 4th — was guaranteed to Republicans because no Democrats filed to run in the primary. No districts were guaranteed to Democrats because no Republicans filed.
See also
- United States House elections in Michigan, 2022 (August 2 Republican primaries)
- United States House Democratic Party primaries, 2022
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2022
- U.S. House battlegrounds, 2022
Footnotes
