In 2022, 551 officials in Congress and state legislatures ran for a different office than the one to which they were elected. That’s a 61% increase from 2020, when Ballotpedia tracked 344 officials in Congress and state legislatures who ran for a different office.
At the Congressional level, 17 members of the U.S. House of Representatives sought election to other offices. Five (29%) of them won election to the position they sought, eight (48%) were defeated in their party’s primary, and four (24%) advanced from their primaries and lost in the general election.
