United States House elections in Virginia, 2022 (June 21 Republican 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. The primary was scheduled for June 21, 2022. The filing deadline was April 7, 2022.
In Virginia, political parties decide for themselves whether to nominate their candidates via primary or convention. Four Republican congressional district committees elected to nominate candidates outside of the statewide primary.[1] Republican conventions took place in District 5 and District 8 on May 21, 2022.[2][3] A Republican firehouse primary was held in District 10 on May 21, 2022.[4] Republicans in District 11 held a firehouse primary on May 7, 2022.[5]
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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.[6][7]
For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.
This page focuses on Virginia'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 Virginia, 2022 (June 21 Democratic primaries)
- United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia, 2022
Candidates and election results
District 1
Republican primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Robert J. Wittman (Incumbent) ✔
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District 2
Republican primary candidates
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District 3
Republican primary candidates
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District 4
Republican primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
Did not make the ballot:
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District 5
A Republican convention took place in District 5 on May 21, 2022.[2]
Republican convention candidates
District 6
Republican primary candidates
- Benjamin Lee Cline (Incumbent) ✔
- Merritt Hale
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District 7
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
- Gary Adkins
- Gary Barve
- John Castorani
- Amanda Chase
- Craig Ennis
- Taylor Keeney
- John McGuire
- Michael Monteforte
- Tina Ramirez
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District 8
A Republican convention took place in District 8 on May 21, 2022.[3]
Republican convention candidates
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District 9
Republican primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- H. Morgan Griffith (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
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District 10
A Republican firehouse primary was held in District 10 on May 21, 2022.[4]
Republican primary candidates
- John Beatty
- Dave Beckwith
- Hung Cao ✔
- Mike Clancy
- Theresa Coates Ellis
- John Henley
- Jeanine Lawson
- Caleb Max
- Jeff Mayhugh
- Brandon Michon
- Brooke Taylor
Did not make the ballot:
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District 11
A Republican firehouse primary was held in District 11 on May 21, 2022.[5]
Republican primary candidates
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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 Democratic primaries)
- United States House Republican Party primaries, 2022
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2022
- U.S. House battlegrounds, 2022
Footnotes
- ↑ Virginia Department of Elections, "2022 June Primaries Order and Offices," March 9, 2022
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Virginia 5th District Republican Committee, "2022 5th District Convention," accessed March 17, 2022
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Virginia's 8th District Republican Committee, "Announcing the 2022 8th District Convention," February 13, 2022
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Fairfax Republican Party, "10th Congressional District Convention – 2022 Info," accessed March 17, 2022
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Fairfax Republican Party, "11th Congressional District Convention – 2022 Info," accessed March 17, 2022
- ↑ NCSL,"State Primary Election Types," accessed October 7, 2024
- ↑ Virginia Department of Elections,"Casting a Ballot," accessed October 7, 2024
