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United States House of Representatives elections in Oregon, 2022
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Oregon were on November 8, 2022. Voters elected six candidates to serve in the U.S. House, one from each of the state's six U.S. House districts. The primary was scheduled for May 17, 2022. The filing deadline was March 8, 2022.
Partisan breakdown
| Members of the U.S. House from Oregon -- Partisan Breakdown | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | As of November 2022 | After the 2022 Election | |
| Democratic Party | 4 | 4 | |
| Republican Party | 1 | 2 | |
| Total | 5 | 6 | |
Candidates
District 1
General election candidates
- Suzanne Bonamici (Incumbent) (Democratic Party, Working Families Party) ✔
- Chris Mann (Republican Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Nicholas Rascon (Independent)
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Democratic primary candidates
- Suzanne Bonamici (Incumbent) ✔
- Scott Phillips
- Christian Robertson
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Republican primary candidates
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District 2
General election candidates
- Cliff Bentz (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Joseph Yetter (Democratic Party)
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- Cliff Bentz (Incumbent) ✔
- Mark Cavener
- Katherine Gallant
Did not make the ballot:
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District 3
General election candidates
- Earl Blumenauer (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Joanna Harbour (Republican Party)
- David Delk (Progressive Party, Independent Party, Pacific Green Party)
Democratic primary candidates
- Earl Blumenauer (Incumbent) ✔
- Jonathan Polhemus
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District 4
General election candidates
- Val Hoyle (Democratic Party, Working Families Party) ✔
- Alek Skarlatos (Republican Party)
- Jim Howard (Constitution Party)
- Levi Leatherberry (Independent Party, Libertarian Party)
- Michael Beilstein (Pacific Green Party, Progressive Party)
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- Sami Al-Abdrabbuh
- Doyle Canning
- Val Hoyle ✔
- Andrew Kalloch
- Steve William Laible
- Jake Matthews
- John Selker
- G. Tommy Smith
Did not make the ballot:
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District 5
General election candidates
- Jamie McLeod-Skinner (Democratic Party, Independent Party, Working Families Party)
- Lori Chavez-DeRemer (Republican Party) ✔
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- Kurt Schrader (Incumbent)
- Jamie McLeod-Skinner ✔
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District 6
General election candidates
- Andrea Salinas (Democratic Party, Working Families Party, Independent Party) ✔
- Mike Erickson (Republican Party)
- Larry McFarland (Constitution Party)
Democratic primary candidates
- Ricky Barajas
- Carrick Flynn
- Greg Goodwin
- Kathleen Harder
- Teresa Alonso Leon
- Steven Cody Reynolds
- Andrea Salinas ✔
- Loretta Smith
- Matt West
Did not make the ballot:
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General election race ratings
- See also: Race rating definitions and methods
Ballotpedia provides race ratings from four outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and DDHQ/The Hill. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:
- Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
- Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
- Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.[1]
- Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.
Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.[2][3][4]
Click the following links to see the race ratings in each of the state's U.S. House districts:
- Oregon's 1st Congressional District
- Oregon's 2nd Congressional District
- Oregon's 3rd Congressional District
- Oregon's 4th Congressional District
- Oregon's 5th Congressional District
- Oregon's 6th Congressional District
Ballot access
For information on candidate ballot access requirements in Oregon, click here.
Election analysis
Click the tabs below to view information about voter composition, past elections, and demographics in both the district and the state.
- District maps - A map of the state's districts before and after redistricting.
- Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2022 U.S. House elections in the state.
- Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the district and the state.
- State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.
District map
Below were the district maps in use at the time of the election, enacted as part of the 2020 redistricting cycle, compared to the maps in place before the election.
Oregon Congressional Districts
until January 2, 2023
Click a district to compare boundaries.
Oregon Congressional Districts
starting January 3, 2023
Click a district to compare boundaries.
Competitiveness
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Oregon.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Oregon in 2022. Information below was calculated on April 6, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
In 2022, 46 candidates filed to run for Oregon's six U.S. House districts, including 26 Democrats, 19 Republicans, and one independent. That's 7.7 candidates per district, down from 9.2 candidates per district in 2020 and 8.4 in 2018.
This was the first candidate filing deadline to take place under new district lines adopted during Oregon's decennial redistricting process. Oregon was apportioned six seats following the 2020 census, up one from the five the state was apportioned after the 2010 census.
Two of the six districts were left open, meaning no incumbents filed to run there. This included the newly-created 6th District and the 4th District, where incumbent Rep. Peter DeFazio (D) announced his retirement. This marked the most open districts in Oregon since at least 2012. The only other election year since 2012 with an open seat was 2020, which had one.
The four incumbents who filed for re-election all drew primary challengers. At least one Democrat and one Republican filed in all six districts, meaning there were no districts contested by just one of the two major parties at the time of the filing deadline.
Sixteen candidates filed to run in the new 6th District, more than any other. This number includes nine Democrats and seven Republicans.
Presidential elections
As a result of redistricting following the 2020 census, many district boundaries changed. As a result, analysis of the presidential vote in each of these new districts is not yet available. Once that analysis is available, it will be published here.
Oregon presidential election results (1900-2020)
- 15 Democratic wins
- 16 Republican wins
| Year | 1900 | 1904 | 1908 | 1912 | 1916 | 1920 | 1924 | 1928 | 1932 | 1936 | 1940 | 1944 | 1948 | 1952 | 1956 | 1960 | 1964 | 1968 | 1972 | 1976 | 1980 | 1984 | 1988 | 1992 | 1996 | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winning Party | R | R | R | D | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | D | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
State party control
Congressional delegation
The table below displays the partisan composition of Oregon's congressional delegation as of November 2022.
| Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Oregon, November 2022 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | U.S. Senate | U.S. House | Total |
| Democratic | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| Republican | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vacancies | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 2 | 5 | 7 |
State executive
The table below displays the officeholders in Oregon's top three state executive offices as of November 2022.
| State executive officials in Oregon, November 2022 | |
|---|---|
| Office | Officeholder |
| Governor | Kate Brown
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| Secretary of State | Shemia Fagan
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| Attorney General | Ellen Rosenblum
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State legislature
The tables below highlight the partisan composition of the Oregon State Legislature as of November 2022.
Oregon State Senate
| Party | As of November 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 18 | |
| Republican Party | 11 | |
| Independent | 1 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 30 | |
Oregon House of Representatives
| Party | As of November 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 37 | |
| Republican Party | 23 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 60 | |
Trifecta control
As of November 2022, Oregon was a Democratic trifecta, with majorities in both chambers of the state legislature and control of the governorship. The table below displays the historical trifecta status of the state.
Oregon Party Control: 1992-2022
Fourteen years of Democratic trifectas • No Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.
| Year | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governor | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
| Senate | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | S | S | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
| House | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | S | S | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
Redistricting following the 2020 census
Gov. Kate Brown (D) signed new state legislative maps into law on September 27, 2021. The maps were approved by the Oregon House of Representatives, 31-18, and approved in the Oregon State Senate 18-11.[5] These maps took effect for Oregon’s 2022 legislative elections.
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Inside Elections also uses Tilt ratings to indicate an even smaller advantage and greater competitiveness.
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Nathan Gonzalez," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Kyle Kondik," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Charlie Cook," April 22, 2018
- ↑ Oregon State Legislature, "SB 882 Enrolled," accessed September 28, 2021
