2022 Arabin presidential election
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The 2022 Arabin presidential election was the 47th quadrennial presidential election, held on Saturday, December 3, 2022. The Republican ballot of the senior Senator from Windsor Lucien Orton and former CEO of Boyle's Oil Matthew Boyle defeated the incumbent Democratic vice president Robert Stephens and incumbent Speaker of the House Chelsea Pickering. The election saw a significant drop in voter turnout compared to 2018. It is also the first presidential election in which the winning candidate lost the popular vote.
Orton and Boyle were inaugurated on January 10, 2023.
Results
TBA
Nominations
Democratic Party nomination
Nominee
Stephens was officially nominated on August 6. He announced Chelsea Pickering as his vice presidential nominee on July 17, 2022.
Dropped out
- Winnie Kimes - Former Senator from New Cambridge (Dropped out April 29, 2021)
- David Todd - Representative from Owens 14th district (Dropped out on December 20, 2021)
- Jay Jenkins[1] - Representative from New Bristol's 6th district (Dropped out on April 2, 2022)
- Grace Potter[2] - 45th Attorney General (Dropped out April 18, 2022)
- Kari Henry - 42nd Secretary of State (Dropped out May 7, 2022)
- Anna Woods - Representative from Dellcourt's 2nd district (Dropped out May 14, 2022)
- Chelsea Pickering - Representative from New Cambridge's 11th district and current Speaker of the House of Representatives (Dropped out May 28, 2022)
Declined to run
- Lona Freeman - 29th President of Arabi
- Melissa Hewitt – 32nd Vice President of Arabi
- Samuel Ingram - 27th President of Arabi
- Walter Freeman - 28th President of Arabi
Primaries
The 2022 Presidential Primaries took place from March 12, 2022 through June 25, 2022.
Republican Party nomination
Nominee
Orton was officially nominated on July 23. On July 7, 2022, Orton announced Matthew Boyle as his running mate.
- Lucien Orton - Senator from Windsor
Dropped out
- Todd Simpson - Radio host (Dropped out March 26, 2022)
- Sean Blackburn - Senator from New Bristol (Dropped out April 9, 2022)
- Matthew Boyle - CEO of Boyle's Oil (Dropped out April 7, 2022)
- Abby Whitehouse - Representative from New Plymouth's 12th district (Dropped out May 14, 2022)
Declined to run
- Jonathan Clark - 26th President of Arabi
Primaries
The 2022 Presidential Primaries took place from March 12, 2022 through June 25, 2022.
Primary elections
| State | Filing deadline for candidates |
Primary election |
General election |
Poll closing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burberry | February 26, 2022 | April 16, 2022 | December 3, 2022 | 7:00pm
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| Dartmoor | June 11, 2022 | |||
| Dellcourt | March 5, 2022 | March 26, 2022 | ||
| Drakeland | February 26, 2022 | May 14, 2022 | ||
| Lochcoast | April 30, 2022 | |||
| New Bristol | March 12, 2022 | |||
| New Cambridge | March 12, 2022 | June 18, 2022 | ||
| New London | May 28, 2022 | |||
| New Plymouth | February 26, 2022 | April 9, 2022 | ||
| Owens | March 19, 2022 | |||
| Saint George | March 5, 2022 | May 21, 2022 | ||
| Severn | April 23, 2022 | |||
| Terranova | April 2, 2022 | |||
| Walpole | May 7, 2022 | |||
| Welwald | June 25, 2022 | |||
| Windsor | February 19, 2022 | June 4, 2022 |
Primary polling
Democratic
December 2021
| Polling | Candidate | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chelsea Pickering |
Kari Henry |
Grace Potter |
Jay Jenkins |
Anna Woods |
Undecided | |
| Arabin News Journal December 2, 2021 |
28% | 22% | 9% | 4% | 4% | 33% |
| Political Forecasting December 1, 2021 |
24% | 14% | 11% | 10% | 7% | 34% |
| PolitiTrade December 13, 2021 |
19% | 28% | 8% | 16% | 10% | 19% |
Republican
December 2021
| Polling | Candidate | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lucien Orton |
Matthew Boyle |
Todd Simpson |
Sean Blackburn |
Abby Whitehouse |
Undecided | |
| Arabin News Journal December 2, 2021 |
26% | 31% | 17% | 11% | 12% | 2% |
| Political Forecasting December 1, 2021 |
27% | 23% | 11% | 5% | 19% | 15% |
| PolitiTrade December 13, 2021 |
30% | 33% | 21% | 6% | 7% | 3% |