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United States House elections in Missouri, 2022 (August 2 Republican primaries)
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Missouri were on November 8, 2022. Voters elected eight candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's eight U.S. House districts. The primary was scheduled for August 2, 2022. The filing deadline was March 29, 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. Missouri 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][3]
For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.
This page focuses on Missouri'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 Missouri, 2022 (August 2 Democratic primaries)
- United States House of Representatives elections in Missouri, 2022
Candidates and election results
District 1
Republican primary candidates
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District 2
Republican primary candidates
- Ann Wagner (Incumbent) ✔
- Paul Berry
- Tony Salvatore
- Wesley Smith
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District 3
Republican primary candidates
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District 4
Republican primary candidates
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District 5
Republican primary candidates
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District 6
Republican primary candidates
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District 7
Republican primary candidates
- Sam Alexander
- Alex Bryant
- Eric Burlison ✔
- Camille Lombardi-Olive
- Mike Moon
- Audrey Richards
- Paul Walker
- Jay Wasson
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District 8
Republican primary candidates
- Jason Smith (Incumbent) ✔
- Jacob Turner
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Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Missouri.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Missouri in 2022. Information below was calculated on June 21, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Fifty-nine candidates filed to run for Missouri's eight U.S. House districts, including 22 Democrats and 37 Republicans. That's 7.37 candidates per district, more than the five candidates per district in 2020 and the 4.87 in 2018. This was the first election to take place under new district lines following the 2020 census. Missouri was apportioned eight districts, the same number it was apportioned after the 2010 census.
The 59 candidates who filed to run this year were the most candidates running for Missouri's U.S. House seats since at least 2014, the earliest year for which we have data.
Two districts — the 4th and the 7th — were open. Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R), who represented the 4th district, and Rep. Billy Long (R), who represented the 7th district, ran for the U.S. Senate. The two open seats this year were the first U.S. House seats to open up in the state since at least 2012, the earliest year for which we have data. Eleven candidates — three Democrats and eight Republicans — ran to replace Long, the most candidates who ran for a seat this year..
There were six contested Democratic primaries, the most since at least 2014, and eight contested Republican primaries, the most since 2016, when there were also eight contested Republican primaries. All six incumbents who ran for re-election faced primary challengers, the same number as in 2020 and one more than in 2018. Candidates filed to run in the Republican and Democratic primaries in all eight districts, so no seats were guaranteed to either party this year.
See also
- United States House elections in Missouri, 2022 (August 2 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," accessed April 4, 2023
- ↑ Ballotpedia research conducted December 26, 2013, through January 3, 2014, researching and analyzing various state websites and codes.
- ↑ John R. Ashcroft Missouri Secretary of State,"Frequently Asked Questions," accessed April 4, 2023
