United States House elections in Ohio, 2022 (May 3 Democratic primaries)
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Ohio were on November 8, 2022. Voters elected 15 candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's 15 U.S. House districts. The primary was scheduled for May 3, 2022. The filing deadline was March 4, 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. Ohio law provides for closed primaries, meaning a voter to be affiliated with a party to vote in that party's primary. However a voter of any affiliation can choose the ballot they would like to vote on the day of the primary and their choice may be regarded as registration with that party.[1][2]
For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.
This page focuses on Ohio'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 Ohio, 2022 (May 3 Republican primaries)
- United States House of Representatives elections in Ohio, 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
Democratic primary candidates
- Joyce Beatty (Incumbent) ✔
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District 4
Democratic primary candidates
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District 5
Democratic primary candidates
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District 6
Democratic primary candidates
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District 7
Democratic primary candidates
- Matthew Diemer ✔
- Tristan Rader (unofficially withdrew)
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District 8
Democratic primary candidates
District 9
Democratic primary candidates
- Marcy Kaptur (Incumbent) ✔
District 10
Democratic primary candidates
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District 11
Democratic primary candidates
- Shontel Brown (Incumbent) ✔
- Nina Turner
District 12
Democratic primary candidates
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District 13
Democratic primary candidates
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District 14
Democratic primary candidates
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District 15
Democratic primary candidates
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Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Ohio.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Ohio in 2022. Information below was calculated on April 6, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
In 2022, 70 candidates filed to run for Ohio’s 15 U.S. House districts, including 39 Republicans, 29 Democrats, and two independents. That's 4.7 candidates per district, more than the 4.4 candidates per district in 2020 and fewer than the 5.5 in 2018.
This was the first candidate filing deadline under new district lines adopted as part of Ohio's decennial redistricting process. Ohio was apportioned 15 seats in the House of Representatives, one less than it received after the 2010 census. The Ohio Redistricting Commission approved a redrawn congressional map on March 2 in a 5-2 vote along party lines. On March 18, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that it did not have jurisdiction to overturn the map as part of the legal challenge that overturned the initial congressional map.
Two incumbents announced their departures from the House. Rep. Bob Gibbs (R) originally filed for re-election, but announced on April 6 that he would instead retire, though his name would remain on the ballot. Rep. Tim Ryan (D) chose to run for election to the U.S. Senate instead of seeking re-election. In the race to replace Ryan, seven candidates filed to seek the Republican nomination with the winner facing state Rep. and former House minority leader Emilia Sykes (D), who drew no primary challengers.
In all, candidate filings created 19 contested U.S. House primaries—10 Republicans and nine Democratic. Six incumbents seeking re-election drew no primary challengers. At the time of the filing deadline, all 15 districts were set to be contested in the general election with at least one Democrat and Republican filing in each.
See also
- United States House elections in Ohio, 2022 (May 3 Republican primaries)
- United States House Democratic Party primaries, 2022
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2022
- U.S. House battlegrounds, 2022
Footnotes
