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Last updated: Oct. 3, 2024
Thousands of general elections are taking place across the United States on Nov. 5, 2024. Those elections include offices at the federal, state, and local levels. This is one of 50 pages in which Ballotpedia previews the elections happening in each state as part of the Daily Brew’s 50 states in 25 days series.
This page provides an overview of all elections happening in Wyoming within our coverage scope on Nov. 5, 2024. Those elections include office for one U.S Senator, one U.S. Representative, 62 state Representatives, and 15 state Senators. Additionally, there is one statewide ballot measure on the ballot in Wyoming. On this page, you will also find information regarding:
- How to vote in Wyoming
- The elected offices that Wyoming voters can expect to see on their ballots
- The races in Wyoming that Ballotpedia is covering as battlegrounds
- The ballot measures that voters in Wyoming will decide on
- Ballotpedia's Sample Ballot Lookup Tool
- The partisan balance of Wyoming's congressional delegation and state government
- Past presidential election results in Wyoming
- The competitiveness of legislative elections in Wyoming
- The candidates who are on the ballot in Wyoming
Voting information
- See also: Voting in Wyoming
What's on the ballot?
2024 elections
- See also: Wyoming elections, 2024
Wyoming voters will elect one U.S. Senator and one U.S. Representative.
All 62 seats in the state House are up for election. Fifteen of the 31 seats in the state Senate are up for a regularly scheduled election. There are 11 open seats in the state House and five open seats in the state Senate.
Two state supreme court justices are up for retention election. Wyoming is one of 20 states that use retention elections at the state supreme court level.
Municipal elections will be held in Cheyenne, Wyoming, for mayor and city council. Cheyenne is one of 82 cities included in Ballotpedia's coverage of municipal elections.
Wyoming is one of 26 states where we are expanding our local election coverage beyond the nation's biggest cities, school districts, and state capitals. Including those mentioned above, Ballotpedia is following 40 local races with 62 total candidates for offices that include local councils, county commissions, and other county-level positions.
Below is a list of Wyoming elections covered by Ballotpedia in 2024. Click the links to learn more about each type:
| Wyoming elections, 2024 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Office | Elections? | More information |
| U.S. Senate | ✓ | Click here |
| U.S. House | ✓ | Click here |
| Congress special election | — | — |
| Governor | — | — |
| Other state executive | — | — |
| State Senate | ✓ | Click here |
| State House | ✓ | Click here |
| Special state legislative | — | — |
| State Supreme Court | ✓ | Click here |
| Intermediate appellate courts | — | — |
| School boards | — | — |
| Municipal government | ✓ | Click here |
| Recalls | — | — |
| Ballot measures | ✓ | Click here |
| Local ballot measures | — | — |
Legend: ✓ election(s) / — no elections
Subject to Ballotpedia's scope
Your ballot
- See also: Sample Ballot Lookup
Noteworthy elections
As of Oct. 3, 2024, Ballotpedia has not identified general election battleground races in Wyoming. Battlegrounds are the races that we expect to have a meaningful effect on the balance of power in governments or to be particularly competitive or compelling. Ballotpedia identified the Republican primaries in the Wyoming state House and state Senate as battleground races.
Ballot measures
- See also: Wyoming 2024 ballot measures
There is one statewide ballot measure on the ballot in Wyoming.
| Type | Title | Description | Result | Yes Votes | No Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Property Tax on Residential Property and Owner-Occupied Primary Residences Amendment | Add residential real property as a fourth, separate, class of property and authorize the legislature to create a subclass of residential property for owner-occupied primary residences, which could be assessed at a rate other than the uniform rate for property in the class |
|
146,336 (59%) |
100,392 (41%) |
Twenty-two ballot measures were on the ballot in Wyoming from 2000 to 2022. Voters approved 13 measures and rejected nine.
State analysis
Partisan balance
A Republican represents the state's one at-large U.S. House district. In the U.S. House, Republicans have a 220-212 majority with three vacancies.
Wyoming has two Republican U.S. Senators—John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis. Democrats have a majority in the U.S. Senate. There are 47 Democrats, 49 Republicans, and four independents. Three independents caucus with the Democratic Party, and one other counts towards the Democratic majority for committee purposes.
Republicans have a 29-2 majority in the state Senate and a 57-5 majority in the state House. Republicans have had a majority in the state Senate since 1976 and a majority in the state House since 1966.
Because the governor is a Republican, Wyoming is one of 23 states with a Republican trifecta. It has held this status since 2011, when Republicans gained control of the governor's office. Wyoming's attorney general and secretary of state are also Republicans. This makes Wyoming one of 25 states with a Republican triplex.
Past presidential election results in Wyoming
- See also: Presidential election in Wyoming, 2024
How a state's counties vote in a presidential election and the size of those counties can provide additional insights into election outcomes at other levels of government including statewide and congressional races. Below, four categories are used to describe each county's voting pattern over the 2012, 2016, and 2020 presidential elections: Solid, Trending, Battleground, and New. Click [show] on the table below for examples:
| County-level voting pattern categories | |||||||
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| Democratic | |||||||
| Status | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | ||||
| Solid Democratic | D | D | D | ||||
| Trending Democratic | R | D | D | ||||
| Battleground Democratic | D | R | D | ||||
| New Democratic | R | R | D | ||||
| Republican | |||||||
| Status | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | ||||
| Solid Republican | R | R | R | ||||
| Trending Republican | D | R | R | ||||
| Battleground Republican | R | D | R | ||||
| New Republican | D | D | R | ||||
Following the 2020 presidential election, 89.5% of Wyomingites lived in one of the state's 21 Solid Republican counties, which voted for the Republican presidential candidate in every election from 2012 to 2020, and 6.4% lived in Albany County, the state's one New Democratic county. Overall, Wyoming was Solid Republican, having voted for Mitt Romney (R) in 2012, Donald Trump (R) in 2016, and Donald Trump (R) in 2020. Use the table below to view the total number of each type of county in Wyoming following the 2020 election as well as the overall percentage of the state population located in each county type.
| Wyoming county-level statistics, 2020 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solid Republican | 21 | 89.5% | |||||
| New Democratic | 1 | 6.4% | |||||
| Solid Democratic | 1 | 4.% | |||||
| Total voted Democratic | 2 | 10.5% | |||||
| Total voted Republican | 21 | 89.5% | |||||
State legislative competitiveness
According to Ballotpedia's annual state legislative competitiveness report, Wyoming had a Competitiveness Index of 36.2, ranking it 20th of the 44 states that held elections.
- 16 of the 77 seats up for election were open (21%)
- 40 of the 61 incumbents who ran for re-election faced contested primaries (66%)
- 17 of the 77 seats up for election were contested by both major parties (22%)
2010-2024
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| State Legislative Competitiveness Index in Wyoming, 2010-2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | Open seats | Incs. in contested primaries | Major party competition | Competitiveness Index | Rank | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | 20.0% | 25.0% | 33.3% | 26.1 | 36 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | 20.0% | 35.0% | 26.7% | 27.2 | 36 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2014 | 14.7% | 40.6% | 33.3% | 29.5 | 23 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | 26.7% | 36.4% | 73.3% | 45.5 | 5 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | 13.3% | 29.2% | 34.7% | 25.7 | 37 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2020 | 20.0% | 51.7% | 28.0% | 33.2 | 21 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | 26.9% | 49.1% | 30.8% | 35.6 | 21 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2024 | 20.8% | 65.6% | 22.1% | 36.2 | 20 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
In 2024
Hover over column headings to learn more about their contents. Click on headings for more state-specific information.
| State Legislative Competitiveness Index in Wyoming, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Chamber | Open seats | Incs. in contested primaries | Major party competition | Competitiveness Index | ||||||||||||||||||||
| House | 17.7% | 64.7% | % | 27.5 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Senate | 33.3% | 70.0% | 20.0% | 41.1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 20.8% | 65.6% | 22.1% | 36.2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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= candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.
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Cheyenne City Council Ward 1 2 seats | Nonpartisan | Won General | |
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Cheyenne City Council Ward 1 2 seats | Nonpartisan | Lost (unofficially withdrew) Primary | |
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 Michelle Aldrich Incumbent | Cheyenne City Council Ward 3 2 seats | Nonpartisan | Won General |
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= candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.
See also
Footnotes
