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Wyoming State Senate elections, 2022
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| Primary | August 16, 2022 |
| General | November 8, 2022 |
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Elections for the Wyoming State Senate took place in 2022. The general election was on November 8, 2022. A primary was scheduled for August 16, 2022. The filing deadline was May 27, 2022.
The Wyoming State Senate was one of 88 state legislative chambers with elections in 2022. There are 99 chambers throughout the country.
Party control
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| Party | As of November 8, 2022 | After November 9, 2022 | |
| Democratic Party | 2 | 2 | |
| Republican Party | 28 | 29 | |
| Total | 30 | 31 | |
Candidates
General
Wyoming State Senate General Election 2022 |
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Michael Williams (Constitution Party) |
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Amanda Padilla (Libertarian Party) |
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Patricia Junek (Independent) |
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Primary
Wyoming State Senate Primary 2022 |
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No candidates filed for the Democratic primary |
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No candidates filed for the Democratic primary |
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| District 11 |
No candidates filed for the Democratic primary |
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| District 13 |
Tom James (i) |
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| District 15 |
No candidates filed for the Democratic primary |
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| District 19 |
No candidates filed for the Democratic primary |
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| District 23 |
No candidates filed for the Democratic primary |
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| District 25 |
No candidates filed for the Democratic primary |
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| District 27 |
No candidates filed for the Democratic primary |
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| District 29 |
No candidates filed for the Democratic primary |
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No candidates filed for the Democratic primary |
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Incumbents who were not re-elected
Incumbents defeated in general elections
No incumbents lost in general elections.
Incumbents defeated in primary elections
Three incumbents lost in the Aug. 16 primaries.
| Name | Party | Office |
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| Tom James |  Republican |
Senate District 13 |
| R.J. Kost | Republican |
Senate District 19 |
| Drew Perkins | Republican |
Senate District 29 |
Retiring incumbents
One incumbent was not on the ballot in 2022.[1] That incumbent was:
| Name | Party | Office | Reason |
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| Jeff Wasserburger | Republican |
Senate District 23 | Retired |
Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on state legislative primary election competitiveness in Wyoming. These totals include data from all regularly-scheduled House and Senate elections. For more information about Ballotpedia's competitiveness analysis of state legislative elections, please click here.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all state legislative districts up for election in Wyoming in 2022. Information below was calculated on July 12, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
There were 48 contested state legislative primaries in Wyoming in 2022, 31% of the total number of possible primaries, and a 4% increase from 2020.
A primary is contested when more candidates file to run than there are nominations available, meaning at least one candidate must lose.
Republican candidates drove the increase in 2022. Of the 48 contested primaries, there were two for Democrats and 46 for Republicans. For Democrats, this was down from six in 2020, a 67% decrease. For Republicans, the number increased 15% from 40 in 2020.
Of the 48 contested primaries, 28 featured an incumbent, representing 49% of all incumbents who filed for re-election. This was down from 2020, when 31, or 52% of incumbents, faced contested primaries.
All 28 incumbents in contested primaries in 2022 were Republicans. No Democratic incumbents who filed for re-election faced a contested primary.
Overall, 168 major party candidates—27 Democrats and 141 Republicans—filed to run. All 62 House districts and 16 of the state's 31 Senate districts held elections. This includes two new House districts and one new Senate district created following redistricting.
Twenty-one of those districts were open, meaning no incumbents filed. This guaranteed that at least 23% of the legislature would be represented by newcomers in 2023.
Open seats
The table below shows the number and percentage of open seats in the Wyoming State Senate from 2010 to 2022.[2] It will be updated as information becomes available following the state’s candidate filing deadline.
| Open Seats in Wyoming State Senate elections: 2010 - 2022 | |||
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| Year | Total seats | Open seats | Seats with incumbents running for re-election |
| 2022 | 16 | 2 (13 percent) | 14 (87 percent) |
| 2020 | 15 | 4 (27 percent) | 11 (73 percent) |
| 2018 | 15 | 2 (13 percent) | 13 (87 percent) |
| 2016 | 15 | 6 (40 percent) | 9 (60 percent) |
| 2014 | 15 | 2 (13 percent) | 13 (87 percent) |
| 2012 | 15 | 1 (7 percent) | 14 (93 percent) |
| 2010 | 15 | 4 (27 percent) | 11 (73 percent) |
Process to become a candidate
See statutes: Title 22-5 of the Wyoming Election Code
Major party candidates
A candidate seeking the nomination of a major party for state or federal office must be registered with the party whose nomination he or she seeks. The candidate must submit an application for nomination form to the Wyoming Secretary of State. If running for state legislative office, the candidate must be a resident of the district in which he or she seeks election for at least 12 months preceding the election. If running for governor, the candidate must be a resident of the state for at least five years prior to the election. If running for another statewide office, the candidate must be a registered elector in the state.[3][4][5][6]
The application must be accompanied by a filing fee. No application will be considered valid without a filing fee. The candidate must file the application and filing fee no later than 81 days before the primary election.[7]
| Filing fees by office[8] | |
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| Office | Filing fee |
| Governor United States Senator Secretary of state State auditor State treasurer |
$300 |
| Wyoming House of Representatives Wyoming State Senate |
$100 |
Minor and provisional party candidates
A candidate seeking the nomination of a minor or provisional party is nominated by party convention. To be certified as the nominee of a minor or provisional party at a party's state convention, the candidate must submit an application for nomination to the Wyoming Secretary of State, along with the required filing fee (the filing fees are the same as those required of major party candidates). The candidate must file the requisite paperwork no later than 81 days prior the primary election.[9]
Independent candidates
An independent candidate for partisan office must be nominated by filing a signed petition. The petition must be approved by the Wyoming Secretary of State prior to circulation. The petition must be accompanied by the same fee required of party candidates. Petitions must be filed with the Wyoming Secretary of State no later than 70 days before a general election.[10][11][12]
For a statewide office, the petition must be signed by registered electors, which are defined as residents of the state eligible to vote for the petitioner, numbering at least 2 percent of the total number of votes cast for United States Representative in the last general election for the entire state.[13]
For a state legislative office, the petition must be signed by registered electors equaling at least 2 percent of the total number of votes cast for the office in that particular district in the last general election.[13]
Write-in candidates
Each person who requests to have all votes cast for him or her as a write-in candidate counted must file an application for candidacy together with the appropriate filing fee with Wyoming Secretary of State no later than two days after the election in which the person desires to have the write-in votes counted.[14]
Qualifications
Section 2 of Article 3 of the Wyoming Constitution states, "Senators shall be elected for the term of four (4) years and representatives for the term of two (2) years. The senators elected at the first election shall be divided by lot into two classes as nearly equal as may be. The seats of senators of the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of the first two years, and of the second class at the expiration of four years. No person shall be a senator who has not attained the age of twenty-five years, or a representative who has not attained the age of twenty-one years, and who is not a citizen of the United States and of this state and who has not, for at least twelve months next preceding his election resided within the county or district in which he was elected."
Salaries and per diem
- See also: Comparison of state legislative salaries
| State legislative salaries, 2024[15] | |
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| Salary | Per diem |
| $150/day | $109/day |
When sworn in
Wyoming legislators assume office the first Monday in January in odd-numbered years.[16]
Wyoming political history
Trifectas
A state government trifecta is a term that describes single-party government, when one political party holds the governor's office and has majorities in both chambers of the legislature in a state government.
Wyoming Party Control: 1992-2024
No Democratic trifectas • Twenty-two years of 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 | 23 | 24 |
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| Governor | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
| Senate | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
| House | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
Presidential politics in Wyoming
2020 Presidential election results
Presidential election in Wyoming, 2020
Candidate/Running mate |
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| Donald Trump/Mike Pence (R) |
69.5
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193,559 | 3 |
 
| Joe Biden/Kamala D. Harris (D) |
26.4
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73,491 | 0 | |
 
| Jo Jorgensen/Spike Cohen (L) |
2.1
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5,768 | 0 | |
 
| Brock Pierce/Karla Ballard (Independent) |
0.8
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2,208 | 0 | |
| Other write-in votes |
1.2
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3,477 | 0 | ||
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Total votes: 278,503 |
Voting information
- See also: Voting in Wyoming
Redistricting following the 2020 census
On March 25, Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon (R) allowed the state’s legislative maps to become law without signing the redistricting bill approved by the legislature. The legislature approved Wyoming HB100 on March 11. The bill added one Senate seat and two House of Representatives seats to the state legislature. The Senate passed legislative redistricting plans, voting 20-10 to approve an amended version of the Joint Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Interim Committee's proposal.[17] The House rejected maps approved by the Senate in a 46-11 vote on March 8. Legislative leaders formed a committee of three representatives and three senators to resolve disputes over the proposals.[18] On March 11, the House passed the maps in a 44-12 vote, and the Senate passed the maps in a 17-12 vote.[19]
Below is the state Senate map in effect before and after the 2020 redistricting cycle.
Wyoming State Senate Districts
until January 1, 2023
Click a district to compare boundaries.
Wyoming State Senate Districts
starting January 2, 2023
Click a district to compare boundaries.
See also
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Footnotes
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines an incumbent as retiring if the incumbent did not file for office or filed for office but withdrew, was disqualified, or otherwise left a race in a manner other than losing the primary, primary runoff, or convention. If an incumbent runs as a write-in candidate, Ballotpedia does not consider them to be retiring. If an incumbent runs in the same chamber for a different seat, Ballotpedia does not consider them to be retiring.
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines a seat as open if the incumbent did not file to run for re-election or filed but withdrew and did not appear on any ballot for his or her seat. If the incumbent withdrew from or did not participate in the primary but later chose to seek re-election to his or her seat as a third party or independent candidate, the seat would not be counted as open. If the incumbent retired or ran for a different seat in the same chamber, his or her original seat would be counted as open unless another incumbent from the same chamber filed to run for that seat, in which case it would not be counted as open due to the presence of an incumbent.
- ↑ Wyoming Election Code, "Title 22-5-204," accessed March 13, 2025
- ↑ Wyoming Election Code, "Title 22-5-102(a)," accessed March 13, 2025
- ↑ Wyoming Secretary of State, "Federal Offices," accessed March 13, 2025
- ↑ Wyoming Secretary of State, "State Offices," accessed March 13, 2025
- ↑ Wyoming Election Code, "Title 22-5-209," accessed March 13, 2025
- ↑ Wyoming Secretary of State, "Election Division Fees," accessed March 13, 2025
- ↑ Wyoming Election Code, "Title 22-5-304," accessed March 13, 2025
- ↑ Wyoming Election Code, "Title 22-5-301," accessed March 13, 2025
- ↑ Wyoming Election Code, "Title 22-5-306," accessed March 13, 2025
- ↑ Wyoming Election Code, "Title 22-5-307," accessed March 13, 2025
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Wyoming Election Code, "Title 22-5-304," accessed March 13, 2025
- ↑ Wyoming Election Code, "Title 22-5-501," accessed March 13, 2025
- ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures, "2024 Legislator Compensation," August 21, 2024
- ↑ Justia, "2020 Wyoming Statutes Title 22 - Elections Chapter 2 - General Provisions Section 22-2-107 - When Elected State and County Officers Assume Offices.," accessed November 4, 2021
- ↑ Wyoming Tribune Eagle, "Senate sends 60-30 redistricting plan back to House," March 3, 2022
- ↑ Casper Star-Tribune, "Wyoming House votes down redistricting map, triggers joint committee," March 8, 2022
- ↑ Wyoming Legislature, "HB0100 - Redistricting of the legislature.," accessed March 29, 2022
