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United States House elections in New Hampshire, 2022 (September 13 Democratic primaries)

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U.S. House elections in New Hampshire
Primary date
September 13, 2022
General election date
November 8, 2022
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in New Hampshire 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 September 13, 2022. The filing deadline was June 10, 2022.

Candidate filing deadline Primary election General election
June 10, 2022
September 13, 2022
November 8, 2022


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. New Hampshire uses a semi-closed primary system. Unaffiliated voters may vote in the primary, but in order to do so, they have to choose a party before voting. This changes their status from unaffiliated to affiliated with that party unless they fill out a card to return to undeclared status.[1][2][3]

For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.

This page focuses on New Hampshire'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:

Candidates and election results

District 1

Democratic Party Democratic primary candidates

District 2

Democratic Party Democratic primary candidates

Primary election competitiveness

See also: Primary election competitiveness in state and federal government, 2022

This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in New Hampshire.

Post-filing deadline analysis

The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in New Hampshire in 2022. Information below was calculated on Augusr 2, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.

Nineteen candidates filed to run for New Hampshire's two U.S. House districts, including two Democrats and 17 Republicans. That's 9.5 candidates per district, more than the six candidates per district in 2020 and fewer than the 12.5 in 2018.

This was the first election to take place under new district lines following the 2020 census. New Hampshire was apportioned two districts, the same number it was apportioned after the 2010 census.

The 19 candidates who ran this year were seven more than the 12 who ran in 2020 and six fewer than the 25 who ran in 2018. Fourteen candidates ran in 2016, and 10 ran in 2014 and 2012.

Incumbents Chris Pappas (D-1st) and Annie Kuster (D-2nd) both filed to run for re-election, meaning there were no open seats this year. The last year there was an open U.S. House seat in New Hampshire was 2018. Neither incumbent faced a primary challenger.

There were two contested primaries this year, both Republican. That was fewer than the three contested primaries in 2020 and 2018, and the same number as in 2016, 2014, and 2012. Eleven candidates filed to run in the 1st district, the most candidates running for a seat this year. Republican and Democratic candidates filed to run in both districts, so no seats were guaranteed to either party this year.

See also


Footnotes

  1. ↑ NCSL,"State Primary Election Types," accessed April 25, 2023
  2. ↑ Ballotpedia research conducted December 26, 2013, through January 3, 2014, researching and analyzing various state websites and codes.
  3. ↑ New Hampshire Secretary of State,"Voting in Party Primaries," accessed April 25, 2023
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