Election Name: | 2022 Guamanian legislative election |
Flag Image: | Flag of Guam.svg |
Type: | legislative |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 2020 Guamanian legislative election |
Previous Year: | 2020 |
Next Election: | 2024 Guamanian legislative election |
Next Year: | 2024 |
Turnout: | 56.36% |
Speaker | |
Seats For Election: | All 15 seats of the Legislature of Guam |
Majority Seats: | 8 |
Party1: | Democratic Party (United States) |
Leader1: | Telena Cruz Nelson |
Leaders Seat1: | At-large district |
Seats Before1: | 8 |
Seats After1: | 9 |
Seat Change1: | 1 |
Party2: | Republican Party (United States) |
Leader2: | Christopher M. Duenas |
Leaders Seat2: | At-large district |
Seats Before2: | 7 |
Seats After2: | 6 |
Seat Change2: | 1 |
Before Election: | Therese M. Terlaje |
Before Party: | Democratic |
After Election: | Therese M. Terlaje |
After Party: | Democratic |
Legislative elections were held Guam on November 8, 2022, along with the election for the Guam delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives.[1] Before the election, the Democratic Party holds eight of the fifteen seats in the Legislature while the Republican Party holds seven seats.[2] The election resulted in a gain of one seat for the Democrats and a loss of one seat for Republicans. Republicans have won the race for Guam's US House Delegate for the first time since 1993.[3]
Primary elections in Guam were held on August 27, 2022. The top 15 candidates who receive the highest votes for each party will move on to the general election.
Six Democrats hopefuls were eliminated in the 2022 primaries:
One Republican hopeful was eliminated in the 2022 primaries:
The members of the legislature are elected at-large with the first 15 winning candidates elected as the new members of the legislature. The Democratic Party picked up one seat from Republicans, leaving the composition for the next legislature at 9 Democrats and 6 Republicans. Despite Democrats remaining the majority in the legislature, Republicans took the Delegate seat for the first time since 1993 with James C. Moylan winning the race.
There were 15 senators elected on November 8, 2022, to serve in the 37th Guam Legislature and were inaugurated in January 2023: