Welcome to the 2022 Midterms

Welcome to Election Watch 2022. With primary season kicking off in Texas tomorrow, the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, provides resources to cover women candidates in the 2022 midterms. In addition, stay tuned for details about a CAWP media briefing in April covering our early data and analysis from CAWP experts ahead of the large number of May primaries.

• 2022 Summary of Women Candidates: A by-the-numbers look at all the women running for Congress, governor, statewide elected executive offices, and state legislatures, with data visualizations. This page includes 2022 numbers compared to historical records and recent election cycles.
• 2022 Potential Women Candidates: A full, sortable list of announced and potential candidates for Congress, governor, and statewide elected executive offices. This page will update as filing deadlines pass and will become the final list of all filed candidates for these offices in 2022.
• Women as Percentage of 2022 Major-Party Candidates and Nominees: This page provides key context that goes beyond raw numbers by telling the story of how women are represented among all candidates, with comparisons to 2020 and 2018 and broken by party.
• Redistricting Effects on Women Congressional Incumbents: The 2022 election presents distinct complexities for incumbents in the U.S. House associated with congressional reapportionment and redistricting. This page provides specific insights into women incumbent House members’ electoral status as it relates to newly-drawn districts in 2022.
• Rebound Women Candidates in 2022 Elections: For many candidates, an election loss is just the beginning of a political career. This page has information on women who lost elections at the primary or general election stage in 2020 and are running again in 2022.
• Woman vs. Woman: Congressional and Gubernatorial Races: This page contains information from 1944 to 2020 on general elections for congressional and gubernatorial offices where both major-party candidates were women. As primary results are determined, this list will be updated to include woman vs. woman general election matchups in 2022.
• Election Analysis: On the CAWP blog, find analysis from both CAWP scholars and external experts and academics about election 2022 and historical election years.
• Historical Information:
  • Past Candidate and Election Information: Find all these resources and more for previous election cycles at this repository for historical CAWP election coverage.
  • 2018 and 2020 Post-Election Reports: In Unfinished Business and Measuring Success, CAWP offers assessments of women’s political candidacies and success by the numbers and goes beyond the data to analyze how women run, successful strategies, pathways to office, barriers to progress, and more.

Find all of our election coverage on the Election Watch page on the CAWP website. We’re excited to once again chronicle the history made by women candidates as we watch the 2022 midterms unfold.