Incumbents With A Primary Challenger In The 2013 State Legislative Elections

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List of candidates with no competition
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2013 State Legislative Elections
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There were 220 seats in two states with a general election in 2013. We took a look at each of the states to see how many state legislative incumbents who chose to run for re-election in 2013 did not face a primary challenger.

Our main findings:

• The incumbent ran for re-election in 205 (93.2%) of the 220 races.
• In 180 (87.8%) of the 205 seats with an incumbent who ran for re-election in 2013, the incumbent did not see an opponent in the primary election.
• In 25 (12.2%) of the 205 seats in which the incumbent ran for re-election, the incumbent saw a primary opponent.

Because only two states held elections in 2013, the sample size is small when conducting analysis. It is therefore helpful to compare the states holding elections in 2013 to the 44 states that held elections in 2012. Here is how the four states would have ranked in 2012, based on the percentage of incumbents with no primary challenger.

• New Jersey: 34th
• Virginia: 43rd

Comparison to 2011[edit]

See also: Incumbents with no primary challenger in the 2011 state legislative elections

See also[edit]

• State legislative elections, 2013
• 2013 state legislative elections analyzed using a Competitiveness Index
• Open seats in the 2013 state legislative elections
• Major party candidates with major party competition in the November 2013 state legislative elections

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