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United States House elections in Tennessee, 2022 (August 4 Democratic primaries)
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Tennessee were on November 8, 2022. Voters elected nine candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's nine U.S. House districts. The primary was scheduled for August 4, 2022. The filing deadline was April 7, 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. Tennessee utilizes a closed primary process; a voter must either be registered with a political party or must declare his or affiliation with the party at the polls on primary election day in order to vote in that party's primary.[1]
For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.
This page focuses on Tennessee'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 Tennessee, 2022 (August 4 Republican primaries)
- United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee, 2022
Candidates and election results
District 1
Democratic primary candidates
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District 2
Democratic primary candidates
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District 3
Democratic primary candidates
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District 4
Democratic primary candidates
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District 5
Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
- Jim Cooper (Incumbent)
- Justicia Rizzo
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District 6
Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
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District 7
Democratic primary candidates
District 8
Democratic primary candidates
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District 9
Democratic primary candidates
- Steve Cohen (Incumbent) ✔
- M. LaTroy Williams
Did not make the ballot:
Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Tennessee.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Tennessee in 2022. Information below was calculated on July 11, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Thirty-six candidates filed to run for Tennessee's nine U.S. House districts, including 13 Democrats and 23 Republicans. That's four candidates per district, less than the five candidates per district in 2020 and the 5.4 in 2018.
This was the first election to take place under new district lines following the 2020 census. Tennessee was apportioned nine districts, the same number it was apportioned after the 2010 census. The 36 candidates who ran this year were the fewest candidates who filed to run for Tennessee's U.S. House seats since 2012, when 36 candidates ran as well. Forty-five candidates ran in 2020, 49 in 2018, 48 in 2016, and 39 in 2014.
One district — the 5th — was open. That was down from two open seats in 2020, 2018 and 2016. There were no open seats in 2014 or 2012. Rep. Jim Cooper (D), who represented the 5th district, didn't file for re-election. Ten candidates — one Democrat and nine Republicans — ran to replace Cooper, the most candidates who ran for a seat this year.
There were eight contested primaries this year — four Democratic and four Republican. That was the same number as in 2020 and five fewer than in 2018, when there were 13 contested primaries. There were ten contested primaries in 2016, 11 in 2014, and ten in 2012.
Five incumbents — all Republicans — didn't face primary challengers. Republican and Democratic candidates filed to run in all nine districts, so no seats were guaranteed to either party this year.
See also
- United States House elections in Tennessee, 2022 (August 4 Republican primaries)
- United States House Democratic Party primaries, 2022
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2022
- U.S. House battlegrounds, 2022
Footnotes
