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North Dakota 2022 primary election results

This is the only state that does not require voter registration.

ByABC NEWS
June 14, 2022, 9:09 PM

North Dakota voters headed to the polls Tuesday in a handful of GOP and Democratic contested elections, including the primary for a Senate seat. Republicans also fought for their secretary of state candidate. Polls closed at 9 p.m. ET.

North Dakota is the only state that does not require voter registration.

A voter places a ballot for the 2020 Presidential elections in a drop box outside the Cass County Courthouse in Fargo, North Dakota, Oct. 15, 2020.
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State Significance

The winners of deeply red North Dakota's GOP primary elections on Tuesday have a sure path to victory in November.

Sen. John Hoeven ran in the GOP primary against Riley Kuntz, a political outsider and oil field worker. Hoeven, a moderate Republican, had already dodged a challenge in April from Rick Becker, an ultraconservative state lawmaker, for the party delegates' endorsement at the GOP state convention.

Hoeven raised more than $3.2 million while Kuntz had less than $5,000 in his coffers.

Democrats endorsed Katrina Christenson, a University of Jamestown engineering professor, for the seat. She was up against largely unknown Fargo antiques dealer Michael Steele.

North Dakota Republicans were vying to replace long-running GOP Secretary of State Al Jaeger. State lawmaker and seed business owner Michael Howe, the party's unopposed endorsee, had competition from Marvin Lepp, a Bismarck auto service adviser. Both candidates said they would like to focus on election integrity if they win the seat -- echoing many other conservatives running at the local level who, like Donald Trump, claim without evidence that there is a widespread election fraud problem in America.