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United States House elections in Oregon, 2022 (May 17 Democratic primaries)
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Oregon were on November 8, 2022. Voters elected six candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's six U.S. House districts. The primary was scheduled for May 17, 2022. The filing deadline was March 8, 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. Oregon generally utilizes a closed primary process. The selection of a party's candidates in an election is limited to registered party members for presidential and legislative elections.[1][2]
For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.
This page focuses on Oregon'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 Oregon, 2022 (May 17 Republican primaries)
- United States House of Representatives elections in Oregon, 2022
Candidates and election results
District 1
Democratic primary candidates
- Suzanne Bonamici (Incumbent) ✔
- Scott Phillips
- Christian Robertson
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District 2
Democratic primary candidates
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District 3
Democratic primary candidates
- Earl Blumenauer (Incumbent) ✔
- Jonathan Polhemus
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District 4
Democratic primary candidates
- Sami Al-Abdrabbuh
- Doyle Canning
- Val Hoyle ✔
- Andrew Kalloch
- Steve William Laible
- Jake Matthews
- John Selker
- G. Tommy Smith
Did not make the ballot:
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District 5
Democratic primary candidates
- Kurt Schrader (Incumbent)
- Jamie McLeod-Skinner ✔
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District 6
Democratic primary candidates
- Ricky Barajas
- Carrick Flynn
- Greg Goodwin
- Kathleen Harder
- Teresa Alonso Leon
- Steven Cody Reynolds
- Andrea Salinas ✔
- Loretta Smith
- Matt West
Did not make the ballot:
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Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Oregon.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Oregon 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, 46 candidates filed to run for Oregon's six U.S. House districts, including 26 Democrats, 19 Republicans, and one independent. That's 7.7 candidates per district, down from 9.2 candidates per district in 2020 and 8.4 in 2018.
This was the first candidate filing deadline to take place under new district lines adopted during Oregon's decennial redistricting process. Oregon was apportioned six seats following the 2020 census, up one from the five the state was apportioned after the 2010 census.
Two of the six districts were left open, meaning no incumbents filed to run there. This included the newly-created 6th District and the 4th District, where incumbent Rep. Peter DeFazio (D) announced his retirement. This marked the most open districts in Oregon since at least 2012. The only other election year since 2012 with an open seat was 2020, which had one.
The four incumbents who filed for re-election all drew primary challengers. At least one Democrat and one Republican filed in all six districts, meaning there were no districts contested by just one of the two major parties at the time of the filing deadline.
Sixteen candidates filed to run in the new 6th District, more than any other. This number includes nine Democrats and seven Republicans.
See also
- United States House elections in Oregon, 2022 (May 17 Republican primaries)
- United States House Democratic Party primaries, 2022
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2022
- U.S. House battlegrounds, 2022
Footnotes
