2022 United States elections

The 2022 United States elections will be held on Tuesday, November 8, 2022. During this mid-term election year, all 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives and 34 of the 100 seats in the United States 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 United States census.

2022 United States elections
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Midterm elections
Election dayNovember 8
Incumbent presidentJoe Biden (Democratic)
Next Congress118th
Senate elections
Seats contested34 of 100 seats
Map of the 2022 Senate races

     Democratic incumbent
     Republican incumbent      Republican retiring
     No election
House elections
Seats contestedAll 435 voting seats
+5 of 6 non-voting seats
Gubernatorial elections
Seats contested39 (36 states, 3 territories)
Map of the 2022 gubernatorial elections
     Democratic incumbent      Term-limited or retiring Democrat
     Republican incumbent      Term-limited or retiring Republican
     No election

Federal elections

Senate elections
Main article: 2022 United States Senate elections

At least 34 of the 100 seats in the United States 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 III senators were held in 2016.

House of Representatives elections
Main article: 2022 United States House of Representatives elections

All 435 voting seats in the United States House of Representatives will be up for election. As of November 2020, only two representatives, Steve Cohen and Jim Cooper (both D-TN) have announced their plans to run again in 2022.[1] Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) announced that she 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 Census redistricting, several districts may lack an incumbent or have multiple incumbents.

At the end of January 2021, talk about passing the DC Admission Act was reignited, meaning it could potentially be passed into law, thus admitting the District of Columbia as a state to be called Douglass Commonwealth during the 117th Congress. This would give the prospective state two senators and one member of the House of Representatives. The 2020 elections also saw the Puerto Rican status referendum, in which the territory of Puerto Rico voted in favor of being admitted into the Union as a state. Like D.C., it would also have two senators, but unlike the District, it would gain five seats in the House, based upon population size and apportionment formulas.

State elections

Gubernatorial elections
Main article: 2022 United States gubernatorial elections

Elections will be held for the governorships of 36 U.S. states and three U.S. territories. Special elections may be held for vacancies in the other states and territories, if required by 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 those two states were determined by the 2020 gubernatorial elections.

Legislative elections

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 post-2020 Census redistricting, several legislative districts may lack an incumbent or have multiple incumbents.

Local elections

Mayoral elections

Mayoral elections will be held in some major U.S. cities.

Eligible

Ineligible or Retiring

County elections

In 2022, elections in only one county will occur:

Table of state, territorial, and federal results
See also: Political party strength in U.S. states

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 U.S. Senate elections in 2022. The five territories and Washington, D.C., do not elect members of the U.S. Senate, and the territories do not take part in presidential elections; instead, they each elect one non-voting member of the House. Nebraska's unicameral legislature and the governorship and legislature of American Samoa are elected on a non-partisan basis and therefore political party affiliation is not listed.

Subdivision and PVI[2] Before 2022 elections After 2022 elections
Subdivision 2017
PVI		 Governor State leg. U.S. Senate U.S. House Governor State leg. U.S. Senate U.S. House
 
Alabama R+14 Rep Rep Rep Rep 6–1
Alaska R+9 Rep TBD[lower-alpha 1] Rep Rep 1–0
Arizona R+5 Rep Rep Dem Dem 5–4
Arkansas R+15 Rep Rep Rep Rep 4–0
California D+12 Dem Dem Dem Dem 42-11
Colorado D+1 Dem Dem Dem Dem 4–3
Connecticut D+6 Dem Dem Dem Dem 5–0
Delaware D+6 Dem Dem Dem Dem 1–0 Dem Dem
Florida R+2 Rep Rep Rep Rep 16–11
Georgia R+5 Rep Rep Dem Rep 8–6
Hawaii D+18 Dem Dem Dem Dem 2–0
Idaho R+19 Rep Rep Rep Rep 2–0
Illinois D+7 Dem Dem Dem Dem 13–5
Indiana R+9 Rep Rep Rep Rep 7–2 Rep
Iowa R+3 Rep Rep Rep Rep 3–1
Kansas R+13 Dem Rep Rep Rep 3–1
Kentucky R+15 Dem Rep Rep Rep 5–1 Dem
Louisiana R+11 Dem Rep Rep Rep 5–1 Dem Rep
Maine D+3 Dem Dem Split R/I[lower-alpha 2] Dem 2–0 Split R/I[lower-alpha 2]
Maryland D+12 Rep Dem Dem Dem 7–1
Massachusetts D+12 Rep Dem Dem Dem 9–0 Dem
Michigan D+1 Dem Rep Dem Split 7-7 Dem
Minnesota D+1 Dem Split Dem Split 4-4 Dem
Mississippi R+9 Rep Rep Rep Rep 3–1 Rep Rep Rep
Missouri R+9 Rep Rep Rep Rep 6–2 Rep
Montana R+11 Rep Rep Split Rep 1–0 Rep Split
Nebraska R+14 Rep NP Rep Rep 3–0 Rep
Nevada D+1 Dem Dem Dem Dem 3–1
New Hampshire Even Rep Rep Dem Dem 2–0
New Jersey D+7 Dem Dem 10–2 Dem
New Mexico D+3 Dem Dem Dem Dem 2–1 Dem
New York D+11 Dem Dem Dem Dem 19-8
North Carolina R+3 Dem Rep Rep Rep 8–5 Dem
North Dakota R+17 Rep Rep Rep Rep 1–0 Rep
Ohio R+3 Rep Rep Split Rep 12–4
Oklahoma R+20 Rep Rep Rep Rep 5-0
Oregon D+5 Dem Dem Dem Dem 4–1
Pennsylvania Even Dem Rep Split Split 9–9
Rhode Island D+10 Dem Dem Dem Dem 2–0 Dem
South Carolina R+8 Rep Rep Rep Rep 6–1
South Dakota R+14 Rep Rep Rep Rep 1–0
Tennessee R+14 Rep Rep Rep Rep 7–2 Rep
Texas R+8 Rep Rep Rep Rep 23–13 Rep
Utah R+20 Rep Rep Rep Rep 4-0 Rep
Vermont D+15 Rep Dem Split D/I[lower-alpha 3] Dem 1–0
Virginia D+1 Dem Dem 7–4 Dem
Washington D+7 Dem Dem Dem Dem 7–3 Dem
West Virginia R+20 Rep Rep Split Rep 3–0 Rep Split
Wisconsin Even Dem Rep Split Rep 5–3
Wyoming R+25 Rep Rep Rep Rep 1–0 Rep
United States Even Dem 50–50 Dem 222-213
Washington, D.C. D+43 Dem[lower-alpha 4] Dem[lower-alpha 4] N/A Dem N/A
American Samoa N/A NP/D[lower-alpha 5] NP Rep NP/D[lower-alpha 5] NP
Guam Dem Dem Dem
N. Mariana Islands Rep Split[lower-alpha 6] Ind[lower-alpha 7]
Puerto Rico PNP/D[lower-alpha 8] PDP PNP/R[lower-alpha 9] PNP/D[lower-alpha 8] PNP/R[lower-alpha 9]
U.S. Virgin Islands Dem Dem Dem
Subdivision PVI Governor State leg. U.S. Senate U.S. House Governor State leg. U.S. Senate U.S. House
Subdivision and PVI Before 2022 elections After 2022 elections

Notes
  1. Republicans won a majority of seats in the state house, but it is not yet clear whether they will organize as the majority caucus in the next session of the Alaska legislature.
  2. One 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Washington, D.C., does not elect a governor or state legislature, but it does elect a mayor and a city council. If the city attains statehood, the mayoral and council elections will be repurposed as those for the governor and House of Delegates respectively.
  5. Although elections for governor of American Samoa are non-partisan, Governor Lemanu Peleti Mauga affiliates with the Democratic Party.
  6. Republicans control the Northern Mariana Islands Senate, but no party holds a majority in the Northern Mariana Islands House of Representatives.
  7. 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.
  8. Puerto Rican Governor Pedro Pierluisi is a member of the Puerto Rican New Progressive Party, but affiliates with the Democratic Party at the national level.
  9. Puerto 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.

References
  1. Burgess, Katherine (January 1, 2019). "Cohen to seek re-election to Congress in 2020 and 2022". The Commercial Appeal. Retrieved April 11, 2019.
  2. Coleman, Miles. "2016 State PVI Changes". Decision Desk HQ. Archived from the original on October 14, 2017. Retrieved November 9, 2017.
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