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The 2022 District of Columbia Attorney General election was held on November 8, 2022, to elect the next attorney general for the District of Columbia. This was the third attorney general election in D.C. history.
Incumbent attorney general Karl Racine had declined to run for reelection. [1]
A Democratic primary was held on June 21, 2022. Incumbent attorney general Karl Racine was considered likely to run for mayor or reelection as attorney general and even filed paperwork in 2020, but announced he would not run for any office in October 2021. [1]
According to District election law, an candidate for Attorney General must have been actively engaged as an attorney in the District for at least five of the previous ten years. In late March 2022, candidate Bruce Spiva filed a challenge with the Board of Elections in which he claimed frontrunner Kenyan McDuffie was ineligible to run for the position. The challenge said that McDuffie did not spend at least five of the previous ten years actively engaged as an attorney. McDuffie responded, saying he is an attorney and that his work as a Councilmember since 2012 should count toward the requirement. [2] On April 18, the Board of Elections upheld Spiva's challenge, and it ruled that McDuffie was ineligible to run for the office. [3] McDuffie requested a rehearing, but the D.C. Court of Appeals denied his request. [4]
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| No. | Date | Host | Moderator | Link | Participants | ||||||||
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| P Participant A Absent N Non-invitee I Invitee W Withdrawn | |||||||||||||
| Jones | McDuffie | Schwalb | Spiva | ||||||||||
| 1 | Mar 5, 2022 | Ward 7 Democrats | Dionna Lewis | P | P | P | P | ||||||
| 2 | Apr 26, 2022 | League of Women Voters/GWU | Dayna Bowen Matthew | P | N | P | P | ||||||
| 3 | May 11, 2022 | District of Columbia Bar | Keith Alexander Sam Ford | YouTube | P | N | P | P | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Brian Schwalb | 54,399 | 45.35 | |
| Democratic | Bruce V. Spiva | 44,198 | 36.85 | |
| Democratic | Ryan L. Jones | 20,518 | 17.11 | |
| Democratic | Write-in | 827 | 0.69 | |
| Total votes | 119,942 | 100 | ||
| n/a | Overvotes | 123 | ||
| n/a | Undervotes | 8,266 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Brian Schwalb | 177,126 | 97.51% | |
| Independent | Write-in | 4,516 | 2.49% | |
| Total votes | 181,642 | 100% | ||
| n/a | Overvotes | 123 | ||
| n/a | Undervotes | 23,647 | ||
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