United States House elections in New York, 2022 (August 23 Democratic primaries)
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in New York were on November 8, 2022. Voters elected 26 candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's 26 U.S. House districts. The primary for U.S. Senate, state executive, and state assembly offices was scheduled for June 28, 2022, and the filing deadline was April 7, 2022. The primary for U.S. House and state senate offices was scheduled for August 23, 2022, and the filing deadline was June 10, 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. New York utilizes a closed primary process, in which the selection of a party's candidates in an election is limited to registered party members.[1][2]
For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.
This page focuses on New York'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 New York, 2022 (August 23 Republican primaries)
- United States House of Representatives elections in New York, 2022
Candidates and election results
Note: The following list of candidates is unofficial. The filing deadline for this election has passed, and Ballotpedia is working to update this page with the official candidate list. This note will be removed once the official candidate list has been added.
District 1
Democratic primary candidates
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District 2
Democratic primary candidates
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District 3
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District 4
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District 5
Democratic primary candidates
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- Gregory W. Meeks (Incumbent) ✔
District 6
Democratic primary candidates
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- Grace Meng (Incumbent) ✔
District 7
Democratic primary candidates
- Nydia Velazquez (Incumbent) ✔
- Paperboy Prince
District 8
Democratic primary candidates
- Hakeem Jeffries (Incumbent) ✔
- Queen Johnson
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District 9
Democratic primary candidates
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- Yvette D. Clarke (Incumbent) ✔
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District 10
Democratic primary candidates
- Mondaire Jones (Incumbent)
- Quanda Francis
- Peter Gleason
- Daniel Goldman ✔
- Elizabeth Holtzman
- Jimmy Jiang Li
- Maud Maron
- Yuh-Line Niou
- Carlina Rivera
- Brian Robinson
- Jo Anne Simon
- Yan Xiong
- Bill de Blasio (unofficially withdrew)
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District 11
Democratic primary candidates
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District 12
Democratic primary candidates
- Carolyn B. Maloney (Incumbent)
- Jerrold Nadler (Incumbent) ✔
- Suraj Patel
- Ashmi Sheth
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District 13
Democratic primary candidates
- Adriano Espaillat (Incumbent) ✔
- Michael Hano
- Francisco Spies
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District 14
Democratic primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Incumbent) ✔
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District 15
Democratic primary candidates
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- Ritchie Torres (Incumbent) ✔
District 16
Democratic primary candidates
- Jamaal Bowman (Incumbent) ✔
- Vedat Gashi
- Mark Jaffe
- Catherine Parker
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District 17
Democratic primary candidates
- Sean Maloney (Incumbent) ✔
- Alessandra Biaggi
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District 18
Democratic primary candidates
- Pat Ryan (Incumbent) ✔
- Aisha Mills
- Moses Mugulusi
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District 19
Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
- Antonio Delgado (Incumbent)
- Osun Zotique
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District 20
Democratic primary candidates
- Paul Tonko (Incumbent) ✔
- Rostislav Rar
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District 21
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District 22
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District 23
Democratic primary candidates
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District 24
Democratic primary candidates
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District 25
Democratic primary candidates
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- Joseph Morelle (Incumbent) ✔
District 26
Democratic primary candidates
- Brian Higgins (Incumbent) ✔
- Emin Eddie Egriu
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Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in New York.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in New York in 2022. Information below was calculated on August 18, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
One hundred six candidates filed to run for New York's 26 U.S. House districts, including 67 Democrats and 39 Republicans. That's 4.08 candidates per district, more than the four candidates per district in 2020 and the 3.15 in 2018.
This was the first election to take place under new district lines following the 2020 census, which resulted in New York losing one U.S. House district. The 106 candidates who ran this year were two fewer than the 108 who ran in 2020 and 21 more than the 85 who ran in 2018. Seventy-seven candidates ran in 2016, 55 in 2014, and 81 in 2012.
Four incumbents ran in districts other than the ones they represented at the time. Rep. Claudia Tenney (R), who represented the 22nd district, ran in the 24th. Rep. Sean Maloney (D), who represented the 18th district, ran in the 17th, and Rep. Mondaire Jones (D), the incumbent in the 17th, ran in the 10th.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D), who represented the 10th district, ran in the 12th this year. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D), the incumbent in the 12th district, ran for re-election, making the 12th the only New York district in 2022 where two incumbents ran against each other.
Five incumbents—two Democrats and three Republicans—did not file to run for re-election. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R), who represented the 1st district, and Rep. Tom Suozzi (D), who represented the 3rd district, filed to run for governor. Rep. John Katko (R), who represented the 24th district, and Rep. Kathleen Rice (D), who represented the 4th district, retired. Rep. Christopher Jacobs (R), who represented the 27th district, also retired. The 27th district was eliminated after 2022 due to redistricting.
There were seven open seats this year, a decade-high. That number was up from four in 2020, and from one in 2018. There were four open seats in 2016 and two in 2014 and 2012.
The open seats included Zeldin’s 1st district, Suozzi’s 3rd, Rice’s 4th, Maloney’s 18th, and Tenney’s 22nd. Additionally, the 19th and the 23rd district were vacant before the primaries took place. Rep. Antonio Delgado (D), who represented the 19th, was appointed Lt. Governor of New York, and Rep. Tom Reed (R), who represented the 23rd, resigned after a sexual misconduct allegation. Special elections were held on August 23 to fill both seats.
Fourteen candidates ran to replace Nadler in the 10th district, the most candidates who ran for a seat this year. One of the candidates, former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D), unofficially withdrew from the race, but his name appeared on the ballot.
There were 16 contested Democratic primaries this year, the same number as in 2020, and three more than in 2018, when there were 13. There were 10 contested Democratic primaries in 2016, five in 2014, and 10 in 2012.
There were eight contested Republican primaries. That was one more than in 2020, when there were seven contested Republican primaries, and seven more than in 2018, when there was only one. There were three contested Republican primaries in 2016, five in 2014, and five in 2012.
Seven incumbents did not face any primary challengers this year. One seat—the 5th— was guaranteed to Democrats because no Republicans filed. No seats were guaranteed to Republicans because no Democrats filed.
See also
- United States House elections in New York, 2022 (August 23 Republican primaries)
- United States House Democratic Party primaries, 2022
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2022
- U.S. House battlegrounds, 2022
Footnotes
