United States House elections in Wisconsin, 2022 (August 9 Republican primaries)
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin were on November 8, 2022. Voters elected eight candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's eight U.S. House districts. The primary was scheduled for August 9, 2022. The filing deadline was June 1, 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. Wisconsin utilizes an open primary system; registered voters do not have to be members of a party to vote in that party's primary.[1][2]
For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.
This page focuses on Wisconsin'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 Wisconsin, 2022 (August 9 Democratic primaries)
- United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin, 2022
Candidates and election results
District 1
Republican primary candidates
- Bryan Steil (Incumbent) ✔
District 2
Republican primary candidates
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District 3
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
District 4
Republican primary candidates
District 5
Republican primary candidates
- Scott Fitzgerald (Incumbent) ✔
District 6
Republican primary candidates
- Glenn Grothman (Incumbent) ✔
- Douglas Mullenix
Did not make the ballot:
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District 7
Republican primary candidates
- Tom Tiffany (Incumbent) ✔
- David Kunelius
Did not make the ballot:
District 8
Republican primary candidates
- Mike Gallagher (Incumbent) ✔
- Shaun Clarmont
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Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Wisconsin.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Wisconsin in 2022. Information below was calculated on July 26, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Twenty-two candidates filed to run for Wisconsin's eight U.S. House districts, including nine Democrats and 13 Republicans. That's 2.75 candidates per district, less than the 2.88 candidates per district in 2020 and the 3.1 in 2018. This was the first election to take place under new district lines following the 2020 census. Wisconsin was apportioned eight districts, the same number it was apportioned after the 2010 census.
The 22 candidates who filed this year were the fewest candidates running for Wisconsin's U.S. House seats since 2012, when 20 candidates ran. Twenty-three candidates ran in 2020, 25 in 2018, 23 in 2016, and 27 in 2014.
One district — the 3rd — was open. That was the same number of open seats as every other election cycle since 2012. Rep. Ron Kind (D), the incumbent in the 3rd district, did not file for re-election. Five candidates — four Democrats and one Republican — ran to replace Kind, the most candidates who ran for a seat this year.
There were six contested primaries this year — one Democratic and five Republican. That was the same number as in 2020 and 2018 and two fewer than in 2016 and 2014. Four incumbents — two Democrats and two Republicans — did not face any primary challengers. Two districts — the 6th and the 8th — were guaranteed to Republicans because no Democrats made the ballot.
See also
- United States House elections in Wisconsin, 2022 (August 9 Democratic primaries)
- United States House Republican Party primaries, 2022
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2022
- U.S. House battlegrounds, 2022
Footnotes
