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U.S. House elections in Kentucky

Primary date May 17, 2022

General election date November 8, 2022

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2022 U.S. Senate Elections 2022 U.S. House Elections

TheU.S. House of Representatives elections inKentucky were onNovember 8, 2022. Voterselected six candidates to serve in theU.S. House, one from each of the state's six U.S. House districts.The primary was scheduled for May 17, 2022. The filing deadline was January 25, 2022.

Partisan breakdown

Candidates

District 1

See also:Kentucky's 1st Congressional District election, 2022

General election candidates

• James Comer Jr.  (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
• Jimmy Ausbrooks  (Democratic Party) 

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 Democratic primary candidates

This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:

• Jimmy Ausbrooks ✔ 

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 Republican primary candidates

This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:

• James Comer Jr. (Incumbent) ✔

Did not make the ballot:

• David Sharp 

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District 2

See also:Kentucky's 2nd Congressional District election, 2022

General election candidates

• Brett Guthrie  (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
• Hank Linderman  (Democratic Party) 

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 Democratic primary candidates

• William Compton 
• Hank Linderman ✔ 

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 Republican primary candidates

• Brett Guthrie (Incumbent) ✔
• Brent Feher 
• Lee Watts 

Did not make the ballot:

• Stephen Harvey
• Christopher Henning

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District 3

See also:Kentucky's 3rd Congressional District election, 2022

General election candidates

• Morgan McGarvey  (Democratic Party) ✔
• Stuart Ray  (Republican Party)
• Daniel Cobble  (Independent) (Write-in) 

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 Democratic primary candidates

• Morgan McGarvey ✔
• Attica Scott

 Republican primary candidates

• Daniel Cobble 
• Mike Craven
• Justin Gregory
• Darien Barrios Moreno 
• Rhonda Palazzo
• Gregory Puccetti 
• Stuart Ray ✔

Did not make the ballot:

• Robert DeVore Jr.

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District 4

See also:Kentucky's 4th Congressional District election, 2022

General election candidates

• Thomas Massie  (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
• Matthew Lehman  (Democratic Party) 
• Ethan Osborne  (Independent) 

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 Democratic primary candidates

This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:

• Matthew Lehman ✔ 

Did not make the ballot:

• Patrick Rottinghaus

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 Republican primary candidates

• Thomas Massie (Incumbent) ✔
• Alyssa Dara McDowell
• George Washington
• Claire Wirth 

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District 5

See also:Kentucky's 5th Congressional District election, 2022

General election candidates

• Hal Rogers  (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
• Conor Halbleib  (Democratic Party) 
• Stephan Mazur  (Independent) (Write-in) 

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 Democratic primary candidates

This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:

• Conor Halbleib ✔ 

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 Republican primary candidates

• Hal Rogers (Incumbent) ✔
• Jeannette Andrews
• Brandon Monhollen 
• Gerardo Serrano
• Richard Van Dam 

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District 6

See also:Kentucky's 6th Congressional District election, 2022

General election candidates

• Andy Barr  (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
• Geoff M. Young  (Democratic Party) 
• Randy Cravens  (Democratic Party) (Write-in) 
• Maxwell Froedge  (Independent) (Write-in)

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 Democratic primary candidates

• Christopher Preece
• Geoff M. Young ✔ 

Did not make the ballot:

• Scott Etter

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 Republican primary candidates

• Andy Barr (Incumbent) ✔
• Derek Leonard Petteys 

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General election race ratings

See also:Race rating definitions and methods

Ballotpedia provides race ratings from four outlets:The Cook Political Report,Inside Elections,Sabato's Crystal Ball, andDDHQ/The Hill. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:

• Safe andSolid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
• Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
• Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.^[1]
• Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.

Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.^[2][3][4]

Click the following links to see the race ratings in each of the state's U.S. House districts:

• Kentucky's 1st Congressional District
• Kentucky's 2nd Congressional District
• Kentucky's 3rd Congressional District
• Kentucky's 4th Congressional District
• Kentucky's 5th Congressional District
• Kentucky's 6th Congressional District

Ballot access

For information on candidate ballot access requirements in Kentucky, clickhere.

Election analysis

Click the tabs below to view information about voter composition, past elections, and demographics in both the district and the state.

• District maps - A map of the state's districts before and after redistricting.
• Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2022 U.S. House elections in the state.
• Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the district and the state.
• State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.

District map

Below were the district maps in use at the time of the election, enacted as part of the2020 redistricting cycle, compared to the maps in place before the election.

Competitiveness

See also:Primary election competitiveness in state and federal government, 2022

This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Kentucky.

Post-filing deadline analysis

The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Kentucky in 2022. Information below was calculated on Feb. 22, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.

Thirty-one candidates filed to run for Kentucky's six U.S. House districts in 2022, including nine Democrats and 22 Republicans. This equals 5.2 candidates per district, the most candidates per district since 2014.

This was the first candidate filing deadline under new district lines adopted during the state's decennialredistricting process. Kentucky was apportioned six districts, the same number it received after the 2010 census.

One district—Kentucky's 3rd—was left open with Rep. John Yarmuth (D) retiring from politics. Yarmuth first won election in 2006 after defeating Rep. Anne Northup (R). The 2022 filing deadline marked the first time since 1994 that the district had been left open. The 3rd District drew the largest number of major party candidate filings overall: two Democrats and seven Republicans.

The remaining five incumbents—all Republicans—filed for re-election. Of those five, four drew primary challengers, the same number as 2020.

Eight of the 12 possible major party primaries (67%) drew more than one candidate leaving them contested. This represents more contested primaries than in 2020 and the same number as 2018.

Presidential elections

See also:Presidential election in Kentucky, 2020 andThe Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index

As a result ofredistricting following the 2020 census, many district boundaries changed. As a result, analysis of the presidential vote in each of these new districts is not yet available. Once that analysis is available, it will be published here.

Kentucky presidential election results (1900-2020)

• 16Democratic wins
• 15Republican wins

State party control

Congressional delegation

The table below displays the partisan composition of Kentucky's congressional delegation as of November 2022.

State executive

The table below displays the officeholders in Kentucky's top four state executive offices as of November 2022.

State executive officials in Kentucky, November 2022
Office	Officeholder
Governor	Andy Beshear
Lieutenant Governor	Jacqueline Coleman
Secretary of State	Michael Adams
Attorney General	Daniel Cameron

State legislature

The tables below highlight the partisan composition of theKentucky General Assembly as of November 2022.

Kentucky State Senate

Kentucky House of Representatives

Trifecta control

As of November 2022, Kentucky was adivided government, with Democrats controlling the governorship and Republican majorities in both chambers of the state legislature. The table below displays the historical trifecta status of the state.

Redistricting following the 2020 census

Kentucky adopted new state House district boundaries on January 20, 2022, after the general assembly overrode Gov.Andy Beshear’s (D) veto of the plan. The vote to override the governor’s veto was 24-10 in the state Senate with all votes in favor by Republicans and eight Democrats and two Republicans voting against. The override vote was 69-23 in the state House, with all votes in favor by Republicans and 22 Democrats and one Republican voting to sustain Beshear’s veto.^[5] Gov. Beshear allowed the redistricting proposal for new state Senate districts to become law without his signature on January 21, 2022. That legislation had passed the state Senate on January 6, 2022, 28-4, and the state House on January 8, 2022, 67-23.^[6]

See also

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