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United States House elections in Rhode Island, 2022 (September 13 Republican primaries)
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Rhode Island 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 July 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.
Rhode Island utilizes a semi-closed primary system. Unaffiliated voters may vote in a party's primary without affiliating with that party. Voters that are affiliated with a party at the time of the primary election may only vote in that party's primary.[1][2][3]
For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.
This page focuses on Rhode Island's Republican primaries for the U.S. House. For more in-depth information on the state's Democratic primaries and the general election, see the following pages:
- United States House elections in Rhode Island, 2022 (September 13 Democratic primaries)
- United States House of Representatives elections in Rhode Island, 2022
Candidates and election results
District 1
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
District 2
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Rhode Island.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Rhode Island in 2022. Information below was calculated on September 8, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Nine candidates filed to run for Rhode Island's two U.S. House districts, including seven Democrats and two Republicans. That's 4.5 candidates per district, more than the 2.5 candidates per district in 2020 and the three in 2018.
This was the first election to take place under new district lines following the 2020 census. Rhode Island was apportioned two districts, the same number it was apportioned after the 2010 census. The nine candidates who ran this year were four more than the five who ran in 2020 and three more than the six who ran in 2018. Seven candidates ran in 2016, six in 2014, and 12 in 2012.
There’s was an open seat for the first time since 2010. Rep. Jim Langevin (D), the incumbent in the 2nd district, retired. Seven candidates—six Democrats and one Republican—ran to replace Langevin, the most candidates who ran for a seat this year. Rep. David Cicilline (R), the incumbent in the 1st district, ran for re-election and did not face any primary challengers.
The Democratic primary in the 2nd district was the only contested primary this year. That number was a decade low. There were two contested primaries in 2020, 2018, 2016, and 2014. There were four contested primaries in 2012.
Democratic and Republican candidates filed to run in both districts, so no seats were guaranteed to either party this year.
See also
- United States House elections in Rhode Island, 2022 (September 13 Democratic primaries)
- United States House Republican Party primaries, 2022
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2022
- U.S. House battlegrounds, 2022
Footnotes
