# List of members of the United States House of Representatives who lost re-election in a primary

Elections for the United States House of Representatives are preceded by primary elections. Incumbent representatives often win renomination, although there are some instances of incumbents who lose to a primary challenge. In cases of redistricting, incumbents may run against each other in the same district.

## 1972

| Member | Party | District | First elected | Challenger | Notes |
| Wayne N. Aspinall | Democratic | Colorado 4th | 1948 | Alan Merson | Challenger lost general election |
| Walter S. Baring Jr. | Democratic | Nevada at-large | 1956 | James Bilbray | Challenger lost general election |
| James A. Byrne | Democratic | Pennsylvania 3rd | 1952 | William J. Green III | Lost to fellow incumbent |
| Emanuel Celler | Democratic | New York 10th | 1922 | Elizabeth Holtzman | Redistricted to the 16th district; lost general election under new party |
| William Sheldrick Conover | Republican | Pennsylvania 27th | 1972 | James R. Montgomery | Redistricted to the 22nd district; challenger lost general election |
| Cornelius Gallagher | Democratic | New Jersey 13th | 1958 | Dominick V. Daniels | Redistricted to the 14th district; lost to fellow incumbent |
| George Elliott Hagan | Democratic | Georgia 1st | 1960 | Bo Ginn | |
| James Kee | Democratic | West Virginia 5th | 1964 | Ken Hechler | Redistricted to the 4th district; lost to fellow incumbent |
| Jack H. McDonald | Republican | Michigan 19th | 1966 | William Broomfield | Lost to fellow incumbent |
| John L. McMillan | Democratic | South Carolina 6th | 1938 | John Jenrette | Challenger lost general election |
| George P. Miller | Democratic | California 8th | 1944 | Pete Stark | |
| James H. Scheuer | Democratic | New York 22nd | 1964 | Jonathan B. Bingham | Lost to fellow incumbent |
| John G. Schmitz | Republican | California 35th | 1970 | Andrew J. Hinshaw | Redistricted to the 39th district |

## 1974

| Member | Party | District | First elected | Challenger | Notes |
| Glenn Robert Davis | Republican | Wisconsin 9th | 1964 | Bob Kasten | |
| John William Davis | Democratic | Georgia 7th | 1960 | Larry McDonald | |
| Orval H. Hansen | Republican | Idaho 2nd | 1968 | George V. Hansen | |
| John Rarick | Democratic | Louisiana 6th | 1966 | Jeff La Caze | Challenger lost general election |
| Bertram L. Podell | Democratic | New York 13th | 1968 | Stephen Solarz | |
| Frank Stubblefield | Democratic | Kentucky 1st | 1958 | Carroll Hubbard | |
| Robert Tiernan | Democratic | Rhode Island 2nd | 1967 | Edward Beard | |
| Lawrence G. Williams | Republican | Pennsylvania 7th | 1966 | Stephen J. McEwen Jr. | Challenger lost general election |

## 1976

| Member | Party | District | First elected | Challenger |
| Andrew J. Hinshaw | Republican | California 40th | 1972 | Robert Badham |
| Ray Madden | Democratic | Indiana 1st | 1942 | Adam Benjamin Jr. |
| Otto Passman | Democratic | Louisiana 5th | 1946 | Jerry Huckaby |

## 1978

| Member | Party | District | First elected | Challenger | Notes |
| John B. Breckinridge | Democratic | Kentucky 6th | 1972 | Charles T. Easterly | Challenger lost general election |
| Dale Milford | Democratic | Texas 24th | 1972 | Martin Frost | |
| Robert N. C. Nix Sr. | Democratic | Pennsylvania 2nd | 1958 | William H. Gray III | |
| Ted Risenhoover | Democratic | Oklahoma 2nd | 1974 | Mike Synar | |
| John Andrew Young | Democratic | Texas 14th | 1956 | Joseph P. Wyatt Jr. | |

## 1980

| Member | Party | District | First elected | Challenger | Notes |
| John Hall Buchanan Jr. | Republican | Alabama 6th | 1964 | Albert L. Smith Jr. | |
| Robert B. Duncan | Democratic | Oregon 3rd | 1974 | Ron Wyden | |
| Richard Kelly | Republican | Florida 5th | 1974 | Bill McCollum | |
| Edward J. Stack | Democratic | Florida 12th | 1978 | Alan S. Becker | Challenger lost general election |
| Bennett Stewart | Democratic | Illinois 1st | 1978 | Harold Washington | |
| Charles H. Wilson | Democratic | California 31st | 1962 | Mervyn Dymally | |

## 1982

| Member | Party | District | First elected | Challenger | Notes |
| Ed Derwinski | Republican | Illinois 4th | 1958 | George M. O'Brien | Lost to fellow incumbent |
| Billy Lee Evans | Democratic | Georgia 8th | 1976 | J. Roy Rowland | |
| David W. Evans | Democratic | Indiana 6th | 1974 | Andrew Jacobs Jr. | Redistricted to the 11th district; lost to fellow incumbent |
| John G. Fary | Democratic | Illinois 5th | 1975 | Bill Lipinski | |
| Wayne R. Grisham | Republican | California 33rd | 1978 | David Dreier | Lost to fellow incumbent |
| Gary A. Lee | Republican | New York 33rd | 1978 | George C. Wortley | Redistricted to the 27th district; lost to fellow incumbent |
| Ronald M. Mottl | Democratic | Ohio 23rd | 1974 | Ed Feighan | Redistricted to the 19th district |
| Tom Railsback | Republican | Illinois 19th | 1966 | Kenneth G. McMillan | Redistricted to the 17th district; challenger lost general election |
| Joseph F. Smith | Democratic | Pennsylvania 3rd | 1981 | Thomas M. Foglietta | Redistricted to the 1st district; lost to fellow incumbent |

## 1984

| Member | Party | District | First elected | Challenger |
| Katie Hall | Democratic | Indiana 1st | 1982 | Pete Visclosky |
| Frank Harrison | Democratic | Pennsylvania 11th | 1982 | Paul Kanjorski |
| Abraham Kazen | Democratic | Texas 23rd | 1966 | Albert Bustamante |

## 1986

| Member | Party | District | First elected | Challenger | Notes |
| Neil Abercrombie | Democratic | Hawaii 1st | 1986 | Mufi Hannemann | Challenger lost general election |
| Mark D. Siljander | Republican | Michigan 4th | 1981 | Fred Upton | |
| Alton Waldon | Democratic | New York 6th | 1986 | Floyd Flake | |

## 1988

| Member | Party | District | First elected | Challenger |
| Ernie Konnyu | Republican | California 12th | 1986 | Tom Campbell |

## 1990

| Member | Party | District | First elected | Challenger | Notes |
| Buz Lukens | Republican | Ohio 8th | 1986 | John Boehner | Resigned |

## 1992

| Member | Party | District | First elected | Challenger | Notes |
| Bill Alexander | Democratic | Arkansas 1st | 1968 | Blanche Lincoln | |
| Beryl Anthony Jr. | Democratic | Arkansas 4th | 1978 | Bill McCuen | Challenger lost general election |
| Chester G. Atkins | Democratic | Massachusetts 5th | 1984 | Marty Meehan | |
| Terry L. Bruce | Democratic | Illinois 19th | 1984 | Glenn Poshard | |
| Beverly Byron | Democratic | Maryland 6th | 1978 | Thomas Hattery | Challenger lost general election |
| Mickey Edwards | Republican | Oklahoma 5th | 1976 | Ernest Istook | |
| Charles Floyd Hatcher | Democratic | Georgia 2nd | 1980 | Sanford Bishop | |
| Charles Hayes | Democratic | Illinois 1st | 1983 | Bobby Rush | |
| Carroll Hubbard | Democratic | Kentucky 1st | 1974 | Thomas Barlow | |
| Ben Jones | Democratic | Georgia 4th | 1988 | Don Johnson Jr. | Redistricted to the 10th district |
| Joseph P. Kolter | Democratic | Pennsylvania 4th | 1982 | Ron Klink | |
| Robert Lagomarsino | Republican | California 19th | 1974 | Michael Huffington | Redistricted to the 22nd district |
| Clarence E. Miller | Republican | Ohio 10th | 1966 | Bob McEwen | Redistricted to the 6th district; lost to fellow incumbent; challenger lost general election |
| Dick Nichols | Republican | Kansas 5th | 1990 | Eric Yost | Redistricted to the 4th district; challenger lost general election |
| Marty Russo | Democratic | Illinois 3rd | 1974 | Bill Lipinski | Lost to fellow incumbent |
| Gus Savage | Democratic | Illinois 2nd | 1980 | Mel Reynolds | |
| Stephen Solarz | Democratic | New York 13th | 1974 | Nydia Velázquez | Redistricted to the 12th district |
| Harley O. Staggers Jr. | Democratic | West Virginia 2nd | 1982 | Alan Mollohan | Redistricted to the 1st district; lost to fellow incumbent |
| Guy Vander Jagt | Republican | Michigan 9th | 1966 | Pete Hoekstra | Redistricted to the 2nd district |

## 1994

| Member | Party | District | First elected | Challenger | Notes |
| Lucien Blackwell | Democratic | Pennsylvania 2nd | 1991 | Chaka Fattah | |
| David A. Levy | Republican | New York 4th | 1992 | Dan Frisa | |
| Mike Synar | Democratic | Oklahoma 2nd | 1978 | Virgil Cooper | Challenger lost general election |
| Craig Washington | Democratic | Texas 18th | 1989 | Sheila Jackson Lee | |

## 1996

| Member | Party | District | First elected | Challenger |
| Barbara-Rose Collins | Democratic | Michigan 15th | 1990 | Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick |
| Greg Laughlin | Republican | Texas 14th | 1988 | Ron Paul |

## 1998

| Member | Party | District | First elected | Challenger |
| Jay Kim | Republican | California 41st | 1992 | Gary Miller |

## 2000

| Member | Party | District | First elected | Challenger | Notes |
| Merrill Cook | Republican | Utah 2nd | 1996 | Derek Smith | Challenger lost general election |
| Matthew G. Martínez | Democratic | California 31st | 1982 | Hilda Solis | Later defected to the Republican Party |

## 2002

| Member | Party | District | First elected | Challenger | Notes |
| Bob Barr | Republican | Georgia 7th | 1994 | John Linder | Lost to fellow incumbent |
| Gary Condit | Democratic | California 18th | 1989 | Dennis Cardoza | |
| Earl Hilliard | Democratic | Alabama 7th | 1992 | Artur Davis | |
| Brian Kerns | Republican | Indiana 7th | 2000 | Steve Buyer | Redistricted to the 4th district; lost to fellow incumbent |
| Frank Mascara | Democratic | Pennsylvania 20th | 1994 | John Murtha | Redistricted to the 12th district; lost to fellow incumbent |
| Cynthia McKinney | Democratic | Georgia 4th | 1992 | Denise Majette | |
| Lynn Rivers | Democratic | Michigan 13th | 1994 | John Dingell | Redistricted to the 15th district; lost to fellow incumbent |
| Tom Sawyer | Democratic | Ohio 14th | 1986 | Tim Ryan | |

## 2004

| Member | Party | District | First elected | Challenger | Notes |
| Chris Bell | Democratic | Texas 25th | 2002 | Al Green | Redistricted to the 9th district |
| Ciro Rodriguez | Democratic | Texas 28th | 1997 | Henry Cuellar | |

## 2006

| Member | Party | District | First elected | Challenger | Notes |
| Cynthia McKinney | Democratic | Georgia 4th | 2004 | Hank Johnson | |
| Joe Schwarz | Republican | Michigan 7th | 2004 | Tim Walberg | Lost general election as a write-in |

## 2008

| Member | Party | District | First elected | Challenger | Notes |
| Chris Cannon | Republican | Utah 3rd | 1996 | Jason Chaffetz | |
| David Davis | Republican | Tennessee 1st | 2006 | Phil Roe | |
| Wayne Gilchrest | Republican | Maryland 1st | 1990 | Andy Harris | Challenger lost general election |
| Albert Wynn | Democratic | Maryland 4th | 1992 | Donna Edwards | Resigned; challenger elected to finish term |

## 2010

| Member | Party | District | First elected | Challenger | Notes |
| Parker Griffith | Republican | Alabama 5th | 2008 | Mo Brooks | Elected as a Democrat and switched parties in 2009 |
| Bob Inglis | Republican | South Carolina 4th | 2004 | Trey Gowdy | |
| Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick | Democratic | Michigan 13th | 1996 | Hansen Clarke | |
| Alan Mollohan | Democratic | West Virginia 1st | 1982 | Mike Oliverio | Challenger lost general election |

## 2012

| Member | Party | District | First elected | Challenger | Notes |
| Sandy Adams | Republican | Florida 24th | 2010 | John Mica | Redistricted to the 7th district; lost to fellow incumbent |
| Jason Altmire | Democratic | Pennsylvania 4th | 2006 | Mark Critz | Redistricted to the 12th district; lost to fellow incumbent; challenger lost general election |
| Russ Carnahan | Democratic | Missouri 3rd | 2004 | Lacy Clay | Redistricted to the 1st district; lost to fellow incumbent |
| Hansen Clarke | Democratic | Michigan 13th | 2010 | Gary Peters | Redistricted to the 14th district; lost to fellow incumbent |
| Tim Holden | Democratic | Pennsylvania 17th | 1992 | Matt Cartwright | |
| Dennis Kucinich | Democratic | Ohio 10th | 1996 | Marcy Kaptur | Redistricted to the 9th district; lost to fellow incumbent |
| Don Manzullo | Republican | Illinois 16th | 1992 | Adam Kinzinger | Lost to fellow incumbent |
| Ben Quayle | Republican | Arizona 3rd | 2010 | David Schweikert | Redistricted to the 6th district; lost to fellow incumbent |
| Silvestre Reyes | Democratic | Texas 16th | 1996 | Beto O'Rourke | |
| Steve Rothman | Democratic | New Jersey 9th | 1996 | Bill Pascrell | Lost to fellow incumbent |
| Jean Schmidt | Republican | Ohio 2nd | 2005 | Brad Wenstrup | |
| Cliff Stearns | Republican | Florida 6th | 1988 | Ted Yoho | Redistricted to the 3rd district |
| John Sullivan | Republican | Oklahoma 1st | 2002 | Jim Bridenstine | |

## 2014

| Member | Party | District | First elected | Challenger | Notes |
| Kerry Bentivolio | Republican | Michigan 11th | 2012 | Dave Trott | |
| Eric Cantor | Republican | Virginia 7th | 2000 | Dave Brat | Only sitting Majority Leader to have ever lost a primary. Resigned; challenger elected to finish term |
| Ralph Hall | Republican | Texas 4th | 1980 | John Ratcliffe | |
| Vance McAllister | Republican | Louisiana 5th | 2013 | Ralph Abraham | Lost in blanket primary |
| John F. Tierney | Democratic | Massachusetts 6th | 1996 | Seth Moulton | |

## 2016

| Member | Party | District | First elected | Challenger | Notes |
| Corrine Brown | Democratic | Florida 5th | 1992 | Al Lawson | |
| Renee Ellmers | Republican | North Carolina 2nd | 2010 | George Holding | Lost to fellow incumbent |
| Chaka Fattah | Democratic | Pennsylvania 2nd | 1994 | Dwight Evans | Resigned; challenger elected to finish term |
| Randy Forbes | Republican | Virginia 4th | 2001 | Scott Taylor | Redistricted to the 2nd district |
| Tim Huelskamp | Republican | Kansas 1st | 2010 | Roger Marshall | |

## 2018

| Member | Party | District | First elected | Challenger | Notes |
| Madeleine Bordallo | Democratic | Guam at-large | 2002 | Michael San Nicolas | |
| Mike Capuano | Democratic | Massachusetts 7th | 1998 | Ayanna Pressley | |
| Joe Crowley | Democratic | New York 14th | 1998 | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez | Lost general election under new party |
| Robert Pittenger | Republican | North Carolina 9th | 2012 | Mark Harris | General election voided |
| Mark Sanford | Republican | South Carolina 1st | 2013 | Katie Arrington | Challenger lost general election |

## 2020

| Member | Party | District | First elected | Challenger | Notes |
| Lacy Clay | Democratic | Missouri 1st | 2000 | Cori Bush | |
| Eliot Engel | Democratic | New York 16th | 1988 | Jamaal Bowman | |
| Steve King | Republican | Iowa 4th | 2002 | Randy Feenstra | |
| Dan Lipinski | Democratic | Illinois 3rd | 2004 | Marie Newman | |
| Denver Riggleman | Republican | Virginia 5th | 2018 | Bob Good | Lost in party convention |
| Ross Spano | Republican | Florida 15th | 2018 | Scott Franklin | |
| Scott Tipton | Republican | Colorado 3rd | 2010 | Lauren Boebert | |
| Steve Watkins | Republican | Kansas 2nd | 2018 | Jake LaTurner | |

## 2022

| Member | Party | District | First elected | Challenger | Notes |
| Carolyn Bourdeaux | Democratic | Georgia 7th | 2020 | Lucy McBath | Lost to fellow incumbent |
| Madison Cawthorn | Republican | North Carolina 11th | 2020 | Chuck Edwards | |
| Liz Cheney | Republican | Wyoming at-large | 2016 | Harriet Hageman | |
| Rodney Davis | Republican | Illinois 13th | 2012 | Mary Miller | Redistricted to the 15th district; lost to fellow incumbent |
| Jaime Herrera Beutler | Republican | Washington 3rd | 2010 | Joe Kent | Lost in blanket primary; challenger lost general election |
| Mondaire Jones | Democratic | New York 17th | 2020 | Dan Goldman | Redistricted to the 10th district |
| Andy Levin | Democratic | Michigan 9th | 2018 | Haley Stevens | Redistricted to the 11th district; lost to fellow incumbent |
| Carolyn Maloney | Democratic | New York 12th | 1992 | Jerry Nadler | Lost to fellow incumbent |
| David McKinley | Republican | West Virginia 1st | 2010 | Alex Mooney | Redistricted to the 2nd district; lost to fellow incumbent |
| Peter Meijer | Republican | Michigan 3rd | 2020 | John Gibbs | Challenger lost general election |
| Marie Newman | Democratic | Illinois 3rd | 2020 | Sean Casten | Redistricted to the 6th district; lost to fellow incumbent |
| Steven Palazzo | Republican | Mississippi 4th | 2010 | Mike Ezell | |
| Tom Rice | Republican | South Carolina 7th | 2012 | Russell Fry | |
| Kurt Schrader | Democratic | Oregon 5th | 2008 | Jamie McLeod-Skinner | Challenger lost general election |

## 2024

| Member | Party | District | First elected | Challenger | Notes |
| Jamaal Bowman | Democratic | New York 16th | 2020 | George Latimer | |
| Cori Bush | Democratic | Missouri 1st | 2020 | Wesley Bell | |
| Jerry Carl | Republican | Alabama 1st | 2020 | Barry Moore | Lost to fellow incumbent |
| Bob Good | Republican | Virginia 5th | 2020 | John McGuire | |