2020_Wyoming_House_of_Representatives_election

2020 Wyoming House of Representatives election
All 60 seats in the Wyoming House of Representatives; 31 seats needed for a majority
	Results of the election:; Republican gain Republican hold Democratic gain Democratic hold Libertarian gain Independent hold
Speaker before election; Steve Harshman; Republican	Elected Speaker ; Eric Barlow; Republican

2020 Wyoming House of Representatives election

Legislative election in Wyoming

Members of the Wyoming House of Representatives were elected on November 3, 2020, as part of the 2020 Wyoming elections.^[1]

Quick Facts All 60 seats in the Wyoming House of Representatives 31 seats needed for a majority, Majority party ...

Primary elections were held on August 18, 2020. This election featured the first Libertarian state legislator elected anywhere in the United States since 2000, District 39 Representative Marshall Burt.^[2]

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Party		Candidates	Votes	%	Seats

Party		Candidates	Votes	%	Before	Up	Won	After	+/–
	Republican	55	191,197	76.85%	50	50	51	51	1
	Democratic	21	39,962	16.06%	9	9	7	7	2
	Libertarian	5	6,322	2.54%	0	0	1	1	1
	Independent	3	4,807	1.93%	1	1	1	1
	Write-in		6,514	2.62%
Total			248,802	100.00%	60
Source: Wyoming Elections Results, Secretary of State^[4] · ^[5]

District	Winner	Margin
District 55	Republican	0.8%
District 44	Republican (flip)	1.5%
District 14	Democratic (flip)	2.0%
District 33	Democratic	3.0%
District 45	Democratic	4.1%
District 8	Republican	6.0%
District 22	Independent	7.01%
District 39	Libertarian (flip)	8.7%
District 11	Republican	10.3%
District 54	Republican	16.8%
District 60	Republican (flip)	37.8%

District	Democratic		Republican		Others		Write-in		Total		Result

	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%
District 1	–	–	4,706	91.20%	–	–	454	8.80%	5,160	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 2	–	–	4,121	98.45%	–	–	65	1.55%	4,186	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 3	–	–	4,016	97.69%	–	–	95	2.31%	4,111	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 4	–	–	4,227	85.90%	–	–	694	14.10%	4,921	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 5	–	–	4,122	96.87%	–	–	133	3.13%	4,255	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 6	–	–	4,296	98.51%	–	–	65	1.49%	4,361	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 7	–	–	5,804	97.58%	–	–	144	2.42%	5,948	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 8	2,259	46.88%	2,547	52.85%	–	–	13	0.27%	4,819	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 9	–	–	3,798	95.98%	–	–	159	4.02%	3,957	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 10	–	–	5,565	97.65%	–	–	134	2.35%	5,699	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 11	1,470	44.71%	1,807	54.96%	–	–	11	0.33%	3,288	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 12	1,463	38.47%	2,327	61.19%	–	–	13	0.34%	3,803	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 13	3,004	92.46%	–	–	–	–	245	7.54%	3,249	100.00%	Democratic Hold
District 14	2,148	50.89%	2,063	48.87%	–	–	10	0.24%	4,221	100.00%	Democratic GAIN
District 15	1,144	35.67%	2,052	63.99%	–	–	11	0.34%	3,207	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 16	4,237	96.19%	–	–	–	–	168	3.81%	4,405	100.00%	Democratic Hold
District 17	1,822	92.49%	–	–	–	–	148	7.51%	1,970	100.00%	Democratic Hold
District 18	–	–	3,981	96.28%	–	–	154	3.72%	4,135	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 19	–	–	3,915	97.07%	–	–	118	2.93%	4,033	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 20	–	–	3,939	98.38%	–	–	65	1.62%	4,004	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 21	–	–	4,705	98.64%	–	–	65	1.36%	4,770	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 22	–	–	2,825	46.46%	3,191	52.47%	65	1.07%	6,081	100.00%	Independent Hold
District 23	4,885	95.02%	–	–	–	–	256	4.98%	5,141	100.00%	Democratic Hold
District 24	–	–	4,009	92.95%	–	–	304	7.05%	4,313	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 25	–	–	3,722	90.56%	–	–	388	9.44%	4,110	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 26	–	–	3,959	98.46%	–	–	62	1.54%	4,021	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 27	–	–	3,763	98.25%	–	–	67	1.75%	3,830	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 28	816	17.67%	3,769	81.60%	–	–	34	0.74%	4,619	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 29	–	–	3,766	97.44%	–	–	99	2.56%	3,865	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 30	–	–	3,985	95.40%	–	–	192	4.60%	4,177	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 31	–	–	3,866	97.40%	–	–	103	2.60%	3,969	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 32	632	13.64%	3,980	85.92%	–	–	20	0.43%	4,632	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 33	1,434	45.41%	1,338	42.37%	375	11.87%	11	0.35%	3,158	100.00%	Democratic Hold
District 34	–	–	4,070	98.71%	–	–	53	1.29%	4,123	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 35	–	–	5,046	97.71%	–	–	118	2.29%	5,164	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 36	–	–	3,041	96.54%	–	–	109	3.46%	3,150	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 37	–	–	4,335	96.66%	–	–	150	3.34%	4,485	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 38	–	–	3,277	75.09%	1,068	24.47%	19	0.44%	4,364	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 39	1,421	44.91%	–	–	1,696	53.60%	47	1.49%	3,164	100.00%	Libertarian GAIN
District 40	–	–	4,489	98.14%	–	–	85	1.86%	4,574	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 41	1,629	39.36%	2,497	60.33%	–	–	13	0.31%	4,139	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 42	–	–	3,918	94.78%	–	–	216	5.22%	4,134	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 43	–	–	2,918	94.04%	–	–	185	5.96%	3,103	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 44	1,504	48.86%	1,552	50.42%	–	–	22	0.71%	3,078	100.00%	Republican GAIN
District 45	2,043	51.87%	1,883	47.80%	–	–	13	0.33%	3,939	100.00%	Democratic Hold
District 46	2,323	40.37%	3,409	59.25%	–	–	22	0.38%	5,754	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 47	–	–	3,282	78.16%	886	21.10%	31	0.74%	4,199	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 48	–	–	2,573	96.66%	–	–	89	3.34%	2,662	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 49	–	–	3,269	94.84%	–	–	178	5.16%	3,447	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 50	–	–	4,373	77.62%	1,241	22.03%	20	0.35%	5,634	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 51	–	–	5,619	96.88%	–	–	181	3.12%	5,800	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 52	–	–	3,368	97.34%	–	–	92	2.66%	3,460	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 53	–	–	2,303	95.17%	–	–	117	4.83%	2,420	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 54	2,244	41.59%	3,148	58.35%	–	–	3	0.06%	5,395	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 55	–	–	2,058	50.22%	2,026	49.44%	14	0.34%	4,098	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 56	–	–	3,116	96.68%	–	–	107	3.32%	3,223	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 57	1,120	30.81%	2,504	68.89%	–	–	11	0.30%	3,635	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 58	–	–	2,725	80.34%	646	19.04%	21	0.62%	3,392	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 59	1,104	29.14%	2,658	70.17%	–	–	26	0.69%	3,788	100.00%	Republican Hold
District 60	1,260	31.03%	2,793	68.79%	–	–	7	0.17%	4,060	100.00%	Republican GAIN
Total	39,962	16.06%	191,197	76.85%	11,129	4.47%	6,514	2.62%	248,802	100.00%

State House District	Incumbent		Elected
Wyoming 1	Tyler Lindholm*	Rep	Chip Neiman	Rep
Wyoming 2	Hans Hunt	Rep	Hans Hunt	Rep
Wyoming 3	Eric Barlow	Rep	Eric Barlow	Rep
Wyoming 4	Dan Kirkbride*	Rep	Jeremy Haroldson	Rep
Wyoming 5	Shelly Duncan	Rep	Shelly Duncan	Rep
Wyoming 6	Aaron Clausen	Rep	Aaron Clausen	Rep
Wyoming 7	Sue Wilson	Rep	Sue Wilson	Rep
Wyoming 8	Bob Nicholas	Rep	Bob Nicholas	Rep
Wyoming 9	Landon Brown	Rep	Landon Brown	Rep
Wyoming 10	John Eklund Jr.	Rep	John Eklund Jr.	Rep
Wyoming 11	Jared Olsen	Rep	Jared Olsen	Rep
Wyoming 12	Clarence Styvar	Rep	Clarence Styvar	Rep
Wyoming 13	Cathy Connolly	Dem	Cathy Connolly	Dem
Wyoming 14	Dan Furphy	Rep	Trey Sherwood	Dem
Wyoming 15	Donald Burkhart	Rep	Donald Burkhart	Rep
Wyoming 16	Mike Yin	Dem	Mike Yin	Dem
Wyoming 17	JoAnn Dayton-Selman	Dem	Chad Banks	Dem
Wyoming 18	Thomas Crank*	Rep	Scott Heiner	Rep
Wyoming 19	Danny Eyre	Rep	Danny Eyre	Rep
Wyoming 20	Albert Sommers	Rep	Albert Sommers	Rep
Wyoming 21	Evan Simpson	Rep	Evan Simpson	Rep
Wyoming 22	Jim Roscoe	Ind	Jim Roscoe	Ind
Wyoming 23	Andy Schwartz	Dem	Andy Schwartz	Dem
Wyoming 24	Sandy Newsome	Rep	Sandy Newsome	Rep
Wyoming 25	Dan Laursen	Rep	Dan Laursen	Rep
Wyoming 26	Jamie Flitner	Rep	Jamie Flitner	Rep
Wyoming 27	Mike Greear	Rep	Mike Greear	Rep
Wyoming 28	John Winter	Rep	John Winter	Rep
Wyoming 29	Mark Kinner	Rep	Mark Kinner	Rep
Wyoming 30	Mark Jennings	Rep	Mark Jennings	Rep
Wyoming 31	Scott Clem	Rep	John Bear	Rep
Wyoming 32	Timothy Hallinan	Rep	Timothy Hallinan	Rep
Wyoming 33	Andi Clifford	Dem	Andi Clifford	Dem
Wyoming 34	Tim Salazar	Rep	Pepper Ottman	Rep
Wyoming 35	Joe MacGuire	Rep	Joe MacGuire	Rep
Wyoming 36	Art Washut	Rep	Art Washut	Rep
Wyoming 37	Steve Harshman	Rep	Steve Harshman	Rep
Wyoming 38	Tom Walters	Rep	Tom Walters	Rep
Wyoming 39	Stan Blake	Dem	Marshall Burt	Lib
Wyoming 40	Richard Tass*	Rep	Barry Crago	Rep
Wyoming 41	Bill Henderson	Rep	Bill Henderson	Rep
Wyoming 42	Jim Blackburn	Rep	Jim Blackburn	Rep
Wyoming 43	Dan Zwonitzer	Rep	Dan Zwonitzer	Rep
Wyoming 44	Sara Burlingame	Dem	John Romero-Martinez	Rep
Wyoming 45	Charles Pelkey	Dem	Karlee Provenza	Dem
Wyoming 46	Bill Haley	Rep	Ocean Andrew	Rep
Wyoming 47	Jerry Paxton	Rep	Jerry Paxton	Rep
Wyoming 48	Clark Stith	Rep	Clark Stith	Rep
Wyoming 49	Garry Piiparinen	Rep	Robert Wharff	Rep
Wyoming 50	David Northrup	Rep	Rachel Rodriguez-Williams	Rep
Wyoming 51	Cyrus Western	Rep	Cyrus Western	Rep
Wyoming 52	William Pownall*	Rep	Bill Fortner	Rep
Wyoming 53	Roy Edwards	Rep	Roy Edwards^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Rep
Wyoming 54	Lloyd Larsen	Rep	Lloyd Larsen	Rep
Wyoming 55	David Miller	Rep	Ember Oakley	Rep
Wyoming 56	Jerry Obermueller	Rep	Jerry Obermueller	Rep
Wyoming 57	Chuck Gray	Rep	Chuck Gray	Rep
Wyoming 58	Pat Sweeney	Rep	Pat Sweeney	Rep
Wyoming 59	Bunky Loucks	Rep	Kevin O'Hearn	Rep
Wyoming 60	John Freeman	Dem	Mark Baker	Rep

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Chip Neiman	4,706	91.2%	–7.1
	Write-in		454	8.8%	+7.1
Total votes			5,160	100.0%
	Republican hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Hans Hunt (incumbent)	4,121	98.4%	+0.1
	Write-in		65	1.6%	–0.1
Total votes			4,186	100.0%
	Republican hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Eric Barlow (incumbent)	4,016	97.7%	–1.5
	Write-in		95	2.3%	+1.5
Total votes			4,111	100.0%
	Republican hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Jeremy Haroldson	4,227	85.9%	–12.1
	Write-in		694	14.1%	+12.1
Total votes			4,921	100.0%
	Republican hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Shelly Duncan (incumbent)	4,122	96.9%	+20.2
	Write-in		133	3.1%	+2.0
Total votes			4,255	100.0%
	Republican hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Aaron Clausen (incumbent)	4,296	98.5%	–0.7
	Write-in		65	1.5%	+0.7
Total votes			4,361	100.0%
	Republican hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Sue Wilson (incumbent)	5,804	97.6%	–0.9
	Write-in		144	2.4%	+0.9
Total votes			5,948	100.0%
	Republican hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Bob Nicholas (incumbent)	2,547	52.9%	–4.8
	Democratic	Marcie Kindred	2,259	46.9%	+4.9
	Write-in		13	0.3%	±0.0
Total votes			4,819	100.0%
	Republican hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Landon Brown (incumbent)	3,798	96.0%	–2.7
	Write-in		159	4.0%	+2.7
Total votes			3,957	100.0%
	Republican hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	John Eklund Jr. (incumbent)	5,565	97.6%	+16.7
	Write-in		134	2.4%	+2.1
Total votes			5,699	100.0%
	Republican hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Jared Olsen (incumbent)	1,807	55.0%	+1.4
	Democratic	Amy Spieker	1,470	44.7%	–1.5
	Write-in		11	0.3%	+0.1
Total votes			3,288	100.0%
	Republican hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Clarence Styvar (incumbent)	2,327	61.2%	+5.3
	Democratic	Lee Filer	1,463	38.5%	–5.3
	Write-in		13	0.3%	±0.0
Total votes			3,803	100.0%
	Republican hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Cathy Connolly (incumbent)	3,004	92.5%	–3.7
	Write-in		245	7.5%	+3.7
Total votes			3,249	100.0%
	Democratic hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Trey Sherwood	2,148	50.9%	+2.2
	Republican	Matthew Burkhart	2,063	48.9%	–2.3
	Write-in		10	0.2%	+0.1
Total votes			4,221	100.0%
	Democratic gain from Republican

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Donald Burkhart (incumbent)	2,052	64.0%	–33.6
	Democratic	Jacquelin Wells	1,144	35.7%	N/A
	Write-in		11	0.3%	–2.1
Total votes			3,207	100.0%
	Republican hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Mike Yin (incumbent)	4,327	96.3%	+36.7
	Write-in		168	3.7%	+3.6
Total votes			4,495	100.0%
	Democratic hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Chad Banks	1,822	92.5%	+32.2
	Write-in		148	7.5%	+7.0
Total votes			1,970	100.0%
	Democratic hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Scott Heiner	3,981	96.3%	–2.0
	Write-in		154	3.7%	+2.0
Total votes			4,135	100.0%
	Republican hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Danny Eyre (incumbent)	3,915	97.1%	–1.0
	Write-in		118	2.9%	+1.0
Total votes			4,033	100.0%
	Republican hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Albert Sommers (incumbent)	3,939	98.4%	–0.6
	Write-in		65	1.6%	+0.6
Total votes			4,004	100.0%
	Republican hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Evan Simpson (incumbent)	4,705	98.6%	–0.9
	Write-in		65	1.4%	+0.9
Total votes			4,770	100.0%
	Republican hold

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Retirements

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Democrats

Incumbents defeated

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In the general election

Democrats

Predictions

Results summary

Close races

Summary of results by State House District

Detailed results by State House District

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Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Jim Roscoe (incumbent)	3,191	52.47%	−3.1
	Republican	Bill Winney	2,825	45.46%	+1.3
Total votes			6,081	100.0%
	Independent hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Andy Schwartz (incumbent)	4,885	95.0%	+32.1
	Write-in		256	5.0%	+4.9
Total votes			5,141	100.0%
	Democratic hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Sandy Newsome (incumbent)	4,009	93.0%	+20.9
	Write-in		304	7.0%	+6.4
Total votes			4,313	100.0%
	Republican hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Dan Laursen (incumbent)	3,722	90.6%	–5.4
	Write-in		388	9.4%	+5.4
Total votes			4,110	100.0%
	Republican hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Jamie Flitner (incumbent)	3,959	98.5%	–0.3
	Write-in		62	1.5%	+0.3
Total votes			4,021	100.0%
	Republican hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Mike Greear (incumbent)	3,763	98.3%	±0.0
	Write-in		67	1.7%	±0.0
Total votes			3,830	100.0%
	Republican hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	John Winter (incumbent)	3,769	81.6%	+6.5
	Democratic	Levi Shinkle	816	17.7%	–6.7
	Write-in		34	0.7%	+0.4
Total votes			4,619	100.0%
	Republican hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Mark Kinner (incumbent)	3,766	97.4%	–0.9
	Write-in		99	2.6%	+0.9
Total votes			3,865	100.0%
	Republican hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Mark Jennings (incumbent)	3,985	95.4%	–0.9
	Write-in		192	4.5%	+0.8
Total votes			4,177	100.0%
	Republican hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	John Bear	3,866	97.4%	+28.4
	Write-in		103	2.6%	+2.3
Total votes			3,969	100.0%
	Republican hold