Three candidates are running for Wyoming’s At-Large U.S. House seat—the fewest since 2014

This year’s filing deadline for candidates running for Congress in Wyoming was May 31, 2024.

Three candidates are running for Wyoming’s one U.S. House district, including one Democrat and two Republicans. Nine candidates ran in 2022, five candidates ran in 2020, and five ran in 2018.

Here are some other highlights from this year’s filings:

• The three candidates running in Wyoming this year are the fewest number of candidates since 2014, when three candidates ran.

• Wyoming’s At-Large Congressional District is not open this year because incumbent Rep. Harriet Hageman (R) is running for re-election. The only election year that the district was open in the last 10 years was 2016.
• The Democratic primary is uncontested this year. The last time that the Democratic primary was uncontested was 2014. The Republican primary has been contested every year since 2014.
• Candidates filed to run in the Republican and Democratic primaries, meaning the seat is not guaranteed to either party.

Wyoming and two other states—Alaska and Florida—will hold primaries on August 20.

In Wyoming, the winner of a primary election is the candidate who receives the highest number of votes, even if they do not win an outright majority of votes cast.