The number of uncontested state legislative districts in North Carolina grew from 14 in 2020 to 51 this year. Uncontested districts lack major party competition, meaning candidates from only one of the two major parties filed to run. Democrats are effectively guaranteed to win 10 districts, and Republicans are guaranteed 41. Both major parties will…
Three candidates—Theresa Gavarone, J.R. Majewski, and Craig Riedel—are running in the Republican primary election for Ohio’s 9th Congressional District on May 10, 2022. Incumbent Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D), the longest-serving woman in U.S. House history, was first elected in 1982 and is seeking re-election. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee listed Kaptur as a Frontline candidate,…
Texas held the first statewide primary of the 2022 election cycle for federal and state offices on March 1. Heading into the primaries, it was guaranteed that at least one of the 151 state legislative incumbents seeking re-election would lose. Rep. Claudia Ordaz Perez (D), who currently represents House District 76, was drawn into House…
The filing deadline for candidates running for state and federal office in 2022 in Nebraska was Feb. 15, 2022. In the state’s unicameral legislature, elections will take place in 24 of the 49 Senate districts, over half of which will be represented by newcomers to the legislature next year. There are 13 open districts where…
The 2022 election cycle is the first midterm election during Joe Biden’s (D) presidency. Since 1922, Democratic presidents have seen their party lose an average of 388 state legislative seats in their first midterm elections. Republican presidents have seen their party lose an average of 345 seats. Two presidents in that time—Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)…