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The 2022 United States elections will be held on Tuesday, November 8, 2022. During this midterm election year, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate will be contested. Thirty-nine state and territorial gubernatorial and numerous other state and local elections will also be contested. This will be the first election affected by the redistricting that will follow the 2020 census.
At least 34 of the 100 seats in the Senate will be up for election, including all 34 Class 3 seats. Special elections may also be held to fill vacancies in the other two Senate classes. As senators serve six-year terms, the last regularly scheduled elections for Class 3 senators were held in 2016. The winners of the United States Senate elections will be sworn in on January 3, 2023, for the 118th Congress.
Special elections
At least two special elections will take place in 2022 to replace senators who resigned during the 117th Congress:
Oklahoma Class 2: Incumbent Jim Inhofe announced on February 24, 2022 that he will resign from the Senate at the end of the 117th Congress on January 3, 2023. A special election to fill the remaining four years of his term is to be held on November 8, 2022, concurrently with the regular election for the Class 3 seat, held by James Lankford.[4]
All 435 voting seats in the House of Representatives will be up for election. As of August 2022, 50 representatives and one non-voting delegate (32 Democrats, 19 Republicans) have announced that they will be retiring. The incumbents in these races were determined in the 2020 House of Representatives elections and subsequent special elections. As these elections will be the first conducted after the post-2020 censusredistricting, several districts may lack an incumbent or have multiple incumbents.
Special elections
Four special elections have already been held for the House of Representatives in 2022:
New York's 23rd congressional district: Incumbent Republican Tom Reed resigned on May 10, 2022 amid sexual assault allegations.[17] A special election is to be held on August 23, 2022.[18] The district has a partisan index of R+9.[8]
Elections will be held for the governorships of 36 states and three territories. Special elections may be held for vacancies in the other states and territories if required by the respective state and territorial constitutions. As most governors serve four-year terms, the last regularly-scheduled elections for most seats up for election in 2022 were held in 2018. The governors of New Hampshire and Vermont each serve two-year terms, so incumbents in these two states were determined by the 2020 gubernatorial elections.
Incumbent's status for the 2022 US Attorney General elections
Attorneys general will be elected in thirty states, three territories, and one federal district. The previous elections for this group of states took place in 2018. The attorney general of Vermont serves two-year terms and was last elected in 2020.[21]
Secretaries of state will be elected in twenty-seven states. The previous elections for this group of states took place in 2018. The secretary of state of Vermont serves two-year terms and was last elected in 2020.[22]
State treasurers and equivalents will be elected in twenty-seven states, plus a special election in Utah. The previous elections for this group of states took place in 2018. The treasurer of Vermont serves two-year terms and was last elected in 2020.
The vast majority of states and territories will hold legislative elections in 2022. Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, and Virginia will not hold state legislative elections, as those states all hold such elections in odd-numbered years. In states that use staggered terms, some state senators will not be up for election. As these elections will be the first conducted after the 2020 censusredistricting, several legislative districts may lack an incumbent or have multiple incumbents.
Referendums
During the August primaries, 59% of Kansas voters rejected the "Value Them Both Amendment," which would have removed the right to an abortion from the Kansas Constitution.[23] In 2019, the Kansas Supreme Court had ruled in Hodes & Nauser, MDs, PA, et al v. Derek Schmidt, et al. that a woman's right to make "decisions regarding her body, health, family formation and family life" was protected under section 1 of the Kansas Bill of Rights.[24] The proposed constitutional amendment would have amended the state constitution to overrule the 2019 court ruling and would have granted the state legislature the authority to pass laws regarding abortion prior to the 22nd week of pregnancy.[23]
Local elections
Mayoral elections
A number of major U.S. cities have held mayoral elections in 2022:
San Bernardino, California: Incumbent Republican John Valdivia lost re-election in the primary. Helen Tran and Jim Penman advanced to the runoff election.[30]
Several tribal leaders were defeated when seeking reelection. Lora Ann Chaisson defeated August "Cocoa" Creppel in the election for principal chief of the United Houma Nation.[46] Kasey Velasquez defeated chairwoman Gwendena Lee-Gatwood to become the second woman elected to lead the White Mountain Apache Tribe.[47] RoseMary LaClair defeated incumbent Nooksack Indian Tribe Tribal Chairman Roswell Cline Sr.[48] And former Red Lake Band of Chippewa Chairman Floyd "Buck" Jourdain defeated incumbent Tribal Chairman Darrell Seki Sr.[49]
This table shows the partisan results of president, congressional, gubernatorial, and state legislative races held in each state and territory in 2022. Note that not all states and territories hold gubernatorial, state legislative, and Senate elections in 2022. The five territories and Washington, D.C., do not elect members of the Senate, and the territories do not take part in presidential elections; instead, they each elect one non-voting member of the House. Nebraska's unicamerallegislature and the governorship and legislature of American Samoa are elected on a non-partisan basis, and political party affiliation is not listed.
^Eric Garcetti has been nominated to the post of United States Ambassador to India and it is currently unknown if he will end his term early. Should this occur, the Los Angeles City Council will appoint an interim mayor to finish the remainder of his term.
^Republicans won a majority of seats in the state house, but Democrats formed a majority coalition with independents and some Republicans.
^ abOne of Maine's senators, Susan Collins, is a Republican. The other senator from Maine, Angus King, is an independent who has caucused with the Democrats since taking office in 2013.
^ abThe unicameral Nebraska Legislature is officially nonpartisan, but a majority of its members identify as Republicans.
^One of Vermont's senators, Patrick Leahy, is a Democrat. The other senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, was elected as an independent and has caucused with the Democrats since taking office in 2007.
^ abWashington, D.C., does not elect a governor or state legislature, but it does elect a mayor and a council. If the city attains statehood, the mayoral and council elections will be repurposed as those for the governor and House of Delegates respectively.
^ abAlthough elections for governor of American Samoa are non-partisan, Governor Lemanu Peleti Mauga affiliates with the Democratic Party.
^The Northern Mariana Islands' delegate to Congress, Gregorio Sablan, was elected as an Independent and has caucused with the Democrats since taking office in 2009. In 2021, he rejoined the local Democratic Party and ran as a Democrat in 2022.
^ abPuerto Rican Governor Pedro Pierluisi is a member of the Puerto Rican New Progressive Party, but affiliates with the Democratic Party at the national level.
^ abPuerto Rico's Resident Commissioner, Jenniffer González, was elected as a member of the New Progressive Party and has caucused with the Republicans since taking office in 2017.
