2022 Wyoming House of Representatives election

All 62 members of the Wyoming House of Representatives were elected on November 8, 2022, as part of the 2022 Wyoming elections. Primary elections were held on August 16. Republicans expanded their supermajority, gaining six seats.

Background

The election will be the first after redistricting based on the 2020 census. New legislative districts were approved on March 25, 2022. Two seats were added in the redistricting plan enacted by the Wyoming Legislature.

Results summary

Close races

District	Winner	Margin
District 11	Republican	6%
District 14	Democratic	9.3%
District 23	Democratic	3.4%
District 41	Republican	7.9%

Incumbents defeated in general

Democrats

District 17: Chad Banks lost to Republican J. T. Larson.
District 33: Andi LeBeau lost to Republican Sarah Penn.

Libertarian

District 39: Marshall Burt lost to Republican Cody Wylie.

Open seats changing parties

District 22: Republican Andrew Byron won the seat held by retiring independent Jim Roscoe.
District 61: Republican Daniel Singh won the new seat.
District 62: Republican Forrest Chadwick won the new seat.

Primary elections

Major party candidates filed for the August 16 primary elections between May 12 and May 27, 2022. Minor parties nominated candidates by convention and submitted their nominations to the secretary of state by August 15. Independents submitted nominating petitions by August 29. The general election candidates list was finalized on September 6; the Democrats made one substitution.

Retiring incumbents

Seventeen incumbents did not seek re-election.

Republicans

Democrats

Independents

District 22: Jim Roscoe

Incumbents defeated in primary

Seven incumbents were defeated in the primary election.

Republicans

Democrats

None of the five Democrats running for re-election faced a primary challenge.

Results

Percentages may not sum to 100 due to rounding and the inclusion of write-ins.

General election

The general election was held on November 8.

District 4

Independent Dan Brecht challenged incumbent Republican representative Jeremy Haroldson.

District 5

Republican Scott Smith and independent Todd Peterson ran.

District 6

Republican Tomi Strock, Democrat Hank Szramkowski, and independent Bruce Jones ran.

District 8

Independent LCCC Board of Trustees member Brenda Lyttle challenged former Republican representative David Zwonitzer of District 9.

District 15

Libertarian Patrick Gonzales challenged incumbent Republican representative Donald Burkhart.

District 18

Libertarian Dennis Laughlin challenged incumbent Republican representative Scott Heiner.

District 22

Independent Bob Strobel and Republican Andrew Byron ran to succeed retiring independent Jim Roscoe, who endorsed Strobel.

District 30

District 38

District 39

Incumbent Libertarian representative Marshall Burt sought re-election.

District 41

Democrat Jen Solis and Constitution nominee Matt Freeman challenged incumbent Republican representative Bill Henderson.

District 48

Libertarian Misty Morris challenged incumbent Republican representative Clark Stith.

District 50

Libertarian Carrie Satterwhite challenged incumbent Republican representative Rachel Rodriguez-Williams.

District 53

Constitution nominee Larry Williamson challenged incumbent Republican representative Chris Knapp.

District 54

Independent candidate Jeff Martin challenged incumbent Republican representative Lloyd Larsen.

District 55

Libertarian Bethany Baldes challenged incumbent Republican representative Ember Oakley.