United States House elections in Virginia, 2022 (June 21 Democratic primaries)
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Virginia were on November 8, 2022. Voters elected 11 candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's 11 U.S. House districts.
In Virginia, political parties decide for themselves whether to nominate their candidates via primary or convention. Two Democratic congressional district committees chose to hold conventions after no candidates filed for the district primaries and the primaries were canceled.[1] A Democratic convention for District 6 was scheduled for June 11, 2022, and a Democratic convention for District 9 was scheduled for May 21, 2022.[2][3] Four Republican congressional district committees elected to nominate candidates outside of the statewide primary.[4] The primary was scheduled for June 21, 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. Virginia utilizes an open primary process in which registered voters do not have to be members of a party to vote in that party's primary.[5][6]
For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.
This page focuses on Virginia'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 Virginia, 2022 (June 21 Republican primaries)
- United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia, 2022
Candidates and election results
District 1
Democratic primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
Did not make the ballot:
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District 2
Democratic primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Elaine Luria (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
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District 3
Democratic primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Robert C. Scott (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 4
Democratic primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Aston Donald McEachin (Incumbent) ✔
District 5
Democratic primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 6
Democratic convention candidates
This convention was canceled and this candidate advanced:
District 7
Democratic primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Abigail Spanberger (Incumbent) ✔
District 8
Democratic primary candidates
- Donald Sternoff Beyer Jr. (Incumbent) ✔
- Victoria Virasingh
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District 9
Democratic convention candidates
This convention was canceled and this candidate advanced:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 10
Democratic primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Jennifer Wexton (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
District 11
Democratic primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Gerald Edward Connolly (Incumbent) ✔
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 Virginia.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Virginia in 2022. Information below was calculated on June 7, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Thirty-three candidates filed to run for Virginia's 11 U.S. House districts, including 12 Democrats and 21 Republicans. That's three candidates per district, more than the 2.36 candidates per district in 2020 and less than the 4.09 in 2018.
This was the first election to take place under new district lines following the 2020 census. Virginia was apportioned 11 districts, the same number it was apportioned after the 2010 census.
All 11 incumbents filed to run for re-election, meaning there were no open seats this year for the first time since 2012.
There were five contested primaries — one Democratic and four Republican — this year. That's the fewest contested primaries since 2014, when four primaries were contested.
Two incumbents — Rep. Ben Cline (R) from the 6th district and Rep. Don Beyer (D) from the 8th district — faced primary challengers, the same number as every year since 2014, except for 2016, when only one incumbent faced a primary challenger.
Republican and Democratic candidates filed to run in all 11 districts, so no seats were guaranteed to either party this year. Seven candidates, including incumbent Abigail Spanberger (D), filed to run in the 7th district, the most candidates who ran in a district that held primaries this year.
See also
- United States House elections in Virginia, 2022 (June 21 Republican primaries)
- United States House Democratic Party primaries, 2022
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2022
- U.S. House battlegrounds, 2022
Footnotes
- ↑ Code of Virginia, "§ 24.2-526. Primary not to be held when less than two candidates declare," accessed May 4, 2020
- ↑ Virginia Sixth District Democratic Committee of Virginia, "Call to Convention Congressional Nomination 2022," accessed May 20, 2022
- ↑ Floyd County Democratic Committee, "Caucus to nominate for Congress," accessed May 20, 2022
- ↑ Virginia Department of Elections, "2022 June Primaries Order and Offices," March 9, 2022
- ↑ NCSL,"State Primary Election Types," accessed October 7, 2024
- ↑ Virginia Department of Elections,"Casting a Ballot," accessed October 7, 2024
