Election Name: | 2022 United States Senate election in North Dakota |
Country: | North Dakota |
Type: | presidential |
Previous Election: | 2016 United States Senate election in North Dakota |
Previous Year: | 2016 |
Next Election: | 2028 United States Senate election in North Dakota |
Next Year: | 2028 |
Image1: | Hoeven Official Portrait 2014.JPG |
Nominee1: | John Hoeven |
Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
Popular Vote1: | 135,474 |
Percentage1: | 56.41% |
Nominee2: | Katrina Christiansen |
Party2: | North Dakota Democratic–Nonpartisan League Party |
Popular Vote2: | 59,995 |
Percentage2: | 24.98% |
Image3: | File:Rick Becker by Gage Skidmore (cropped).jpg |
Nominee3: | Rick Becker |
Party3: | Independent |
Popular Vote3: | 44,406 |
Percentage3: | 18.49% |
U.S. senator | |
Before Election: | John Hoeven |
Before Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
After Election: | John Hoeven |
After Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
The 2022 United States Senate election in North Dakota was held on November 8, 2022, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of North Dakota. Incumbent Republican John Hoeven was first elected in 2010 with 76% of the vote to succeed retiring Democratic–NPL incumbent Byron Dorgan, and won re-election in 2016 with 78.5% of the vote. He ran for a re-election to a third term in office against Democratic-NPL nominee Katrina Christiansen. He also faced State Representative Rick Becker, who initially ran as a Republican in the primary, but suspended his campaign in August 2022 and instead ran as an Independent.[1] [2]
Hoeven won reelection to a third term in office[3] with 56.4% of the vote. His performance however was far less impressive than in both of his prior races and even substantially lower than what most polling had indicated, and was the worst a winning Republican had made in the Class 3 seat since 1974. This underperformance was in part attributed to Becker's candidacy as an Independent, who took 18.5% of the vote. Additionally, Christiansen's 25% vote share was the highest of any Democratic–NPL candidate for the Class 3 Senate seat since Dorgan's landslide 2004 win. Becker later rejoined the Republican Party in January 2024.[4]
Source | Ranking | As of | |
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align=left | The Cook Political Report[9] | November 19, 2021 | |
align=left | Inside Elections[10] | July 1, 2022 | |
align=left | Sabato's Crystal Ball[11] | August 2, 2022 | |
Politico[12] | April 1, 2022 | ||
RCP[13] | January 10, 2022 | ||
align=left | Fox News[14] | May 12, 2022 | |
DDHQ[15] | July 20, 2022 | ||
538[16] | August 4, 2022 | ||
The Economist[17] | September 7, 2022 |