The 2022
Wyoming Senate
The Wyoming Senate is the upper house of the Wyoming Legislature, Wyoming State Legislature. There are 31 Senators in the Senate, representing an equal number of constituencies across Wyoming, each with a population of at least 17,000. The Senat ...
election took place on Tuesday, November 8, 2022, with the primary election held on Tuesday, August 16, 2022.
Wyoming
Wyoming ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States, Western United States. It borders Montana to the north and northwest, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Idaho t ...
voters selected state senators in the 16 odd-numbered districts of the
Senate
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to serve four-year terms.
The election coincided with
United States national elections and
Wyoming state elections, including
U.S. House
The United States House of Representatives is a chamber of the bicameral United States Congress; it is the lower house, with the U.S. Senate being the upper house. Together, the House and Senate have the authority under Article One of th ...
,
Governor
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, and
Wyoming House.
Following the
previous election in 2020,
Republicans held a 28-to-2-seat supermajority over
Democrats.
These were the first elections in the odd-numbered Wyoming Senate districts following the
2020 United States redistricting cycle
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, which resulted in redrawn legislative district boundaries and the creation of a new 31st district.
expanded their supermajority to 29-to-2 over
Democrats by gaining a seat in the new 31st district in 2022.
Predictions
Overview
Summary of results by
Senate
A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...
district
''Italics'' denote an open seat held by the incumbent party; bold text denotes a gain for a party.
Detailed Results by Senate District
Sources for election results:
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Notes
References
See also
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2022 United States elections
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2022 Wyoming elections
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2022 Wyoming gubernatorial election
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2022 Wyoming Secretary of State election
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2022 Wyoming House of Representatives election
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Wyoming State Legislature
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Wyoming Senate
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State Senate
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Wyoming Senate
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