2022 Oregon State Senate election

The 2022 Oregon State Senate election will be held in the U.S. state of Oregon on November 8, 2022, to elect 15 of the 30 members of the State Senate of the 82nd Oregon Legislature.

2022 Oregon State Senate election
November 8, 2022
 
Party Democratic Party Republican Party
Incumbent President of the Senate

Peter Courtney
Democratic


A primary election will be held in several districts on May 17, 2022.[1] The election will coincide with the election of the other house of the Legislative Assembly, the Oregon House of Representatives, and other elections.

Background

The last election in 2020 resulted in the Democratic Party retaining a majority of seats,[2] after winning a majority and ending a split State Senate sixteen years earlier in the 2004 election. All-Democratic control of the legislature (and a state trifecta) has persisted since 2012.[3]

Electoral system

The 15 members of the Senate up for election will be elected from single-member districts via first-past-the-post voting for four-year terms.

Contested nominations of recognized major parties (Democratic and Republican) for each district will be determined by a primary election on May 17, 2022.

Minor party candidates will be nominated by petition. Write-in candidates must file a request with the Secretary of State's office for votes for them to be counted. Candidates for the state Senate in 2022 were required to file to run from September 10, 2021 to March 8, 2022.[4]

References
  1. "2022 State Primary Election Dates and Filing Deadlines". www.ncsl.org. Retrieved 2022-04-19.
  2. "November 3, 2020, General Election Abstract of Votes State Senator" (PDF). Oregon Secretary of State. November 3, 2020. Retrieved April 19, 2022.
  3. "Party control of Oregon state government". Ballotpedia. Retrieved 2022-04-19.
  4. "Public Elections Calendar | data.oregon.gov | Oregon's Open Data Portal | Oregon.gov". data.oregon.gov. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
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