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United States House elections in Pennsylvania, 2022 (May 17 Democratic primaries)
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania were on November 8, 2022. Voters elected 17 candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's 17 U.S. House districts. The primary was scheduled for May 17, 2022. The filing deadline was March 15, 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. Pennsylvania utilizes a closed primary process. Voters are required to register with a political party to vote in the primary election.[1][2]
For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.
This page focuses on Pennsylvania'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 Pennsylvania, 2022 (May 17 Republican primaries)
- United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, 2022
Candidates and election results
District 1
Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
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District 2
Democratic primary candidates
- Brendan Boyle (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
District 3
Democratic primary candidates
- Dwight Evans (Incumbent) ✔
- Michael Cogbill
- Alexandra Hunt
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 4
Democratic primary candidates
- Madeleine Dean (Incumbent) ✔
District 5
Democratic primary candidates
- Mary Gay Scanlon (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
District 6
Democratic primary candidates
- Chrissy Houlahan (Incumbent) ✔
District 7
Democratic primary candidates
- Susan Wild (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
District 8
Democratic primary candidates
- Matt Cartwright (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 9
Democratic primary candidates
District 10
Democratic primary candidates
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 11
Democratic primary candidates
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 12
Democratic primary candidates
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 13
Democratic primary candidates
No candidates filed for the Democratic Party primary.
District 14
Democratic primary candidates
No candidates filed for the Democratic Party primary.
District 15
Democratic primary candidates
- Ronnie Ray Jenkins (Write-in)
- Michael Molesevich (Write-in) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 16
Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 17
Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Pennsylvania.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Pennsylvania in 2022. Information below was calculated on May 9, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Forty-eight candidates filed to run for Pennsylvania’s 17 U.S. House districts, including 23 Democrats and 25 Republicans. That’s 2.82 candidates per district, slightly less than the 2.83 candidates per district in 2020, and less than the 4.66 in 2018.
This was the first election to take place under new district lines following the 2020 census, which resulted in Pennsylvania losing one U.S. House district. The 48 candidates who ran this year were the lowest number of candidates running for Pennsylvania's U.S. House seats since 2016, when a total of 44 candidates filed.
Two seats — the 12th and the 17th — were open, meaning no incumbents filed to run. That’s two more than in 2020, when there were no open seats. There were seven open seats in 2018, two in both 2016 and 2014, and no open seats in 2012.
Rep. Fred Keller (R), who represented the 12th district, retired, and Rep. Conor Lamb (D), who represented the 17th district, ran for the U.S. Senate. Six candidates — one Republican and five Democrats — ran in the 12th district, the most running for one seat this year. Five candidates — three Republicans and two Democrats — ran in the 17th district.
There were five contested Democratic primaries this year, the lowest number since 2016. There were six contested Republican primaries, one more than in 2020, but two less than in 2018.
There were 13 districts where incumbents did not face primary challengers. One district — the 3rd — was guaranteed to Democrats because no Republicans filed. Two districts — the 13th and the 14th — were guaranteed to Republicans because no Democrats filed.
See also
- United States House elections in Pennsylvania, 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
