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2024 Wyoming Senate Elections
Primary	August 20, 2024
General	November 5, 2024

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Elections for the Wyoming State Senate took place in 2024. The general election was on November 5, 2024. The primary was August 20, 2024. The filing deadline was May 31, 2024.

Following the election, Republicans maintained a 29-2 veto-proof majority.

The Wyoming State Senate was one of 85 state legislative chambers with elections in 2024. There are 99 chambers throughout the country.

For more on the August 20 Republican primaries, click here.

Party control

See also: Partisan composition of state senates and State government trifectas

Wyoming State Senate
Party		As of November 5, 2024	After November 6, 2024
	Democratic Party	2	2
	Republican Party	29	29
Total		31	31

General election

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Voting information

See also: Voting in Wyoming

Election information in Wyoming: Nov. 5, 2024, election.

What was the voter registration deadline?

• In-person: Nov. 5, 2024
• By mail: Received by Oct. 21, 2024
• Online: N/A

Was absentee/mail-in voting available to all voters?

Yes

What was the absentee/mail-in ballot request deadline?

• In-person: Nov. 4, 2024
• By mail: Received by Nov. 4, 2024
• Online: N/A

What was the absentee/mail-in ballot return deadline?

• In-person: Nov. 5, 2024
• By mail: Received by Nov. 5, 2024

Was early voting available to all voters?

Yes

What were the early voting start and end dates?

Oct. 8, 2024 to Nov. 4, 2024

Were all voters required to present ID at the polls? If so, was a photo or non-photo ID required?

N/A

When were polls open on Election Day?

7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. (MST)

General election race ratings

The table below displays race ratings for each race in this chamber from CNalysis.

Incumbents who were not re-elected

See also: Annual State Legislative Competitiveness Report: Vol. 14, 2024

Incumbents defeated in general elections

See also: Incumbents defeated in state legislative elections, 2024

No incumbents lost in general elections. An average of 0.9 incumbents per year lost in even-year general elections from 2010-2022.

Incumbents defeated in primaries

No incumbents lost in primaries. This was less than the average of 1.1 incumbent defeats per cycle from 2010 to 2022.

Retiring incumbents

Five incumbents did not file for re-election in 2024. Between 2010 and 2022, the average number of retirements was 3. Those incumbents were:

Name	Party	Office
Anthony Bouchard	Republican	District 6
Affie Ellis	Republican	District 8
Dan Furphy	Republican	District 10
Fred Baldwin	Republican	District 14
Dave Kinskey	Republican	District 22

Primary election competitiveness

See also: Primary election competitiveness in state and federal government, 2024

This section contains data on state legislative primary election competitiveness in Wyoming. These totals include data from all regularly-scheduled House and Senate elections. For more information about Ballotpedia's competitiveness analysis of state legislative elections, please click here.

Post-filing deadline analysis

The following analysis covers all state legislative districts up for election in Wyoming in 2024. Information below was calculated on July 23, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.

Wyoming had 54 contested state legislative primaries on August 20, 2024, the most the state has had since Ballotpedia began tracking in 2010. 

All contested primaries were Republican primaries, marking a record high for Republicans and a record low for Democrats.

About 35.1% of all possible state legislative primaries were contested, the highest percentage since Ballotpedia started tracking them in 2010. The average percentage of contested state legislative primaries from 2010 to 2022 was 24.6%.

There were 157 candidates running for 77 seats. Among those running were 16 Democrats and 141 Republicans. That was the highest number of Republicans and the lowest number of Democrats since Ballotpedia started tracking.

Sixty-one incumbents ran for re-election in the primaries. The average number of incumbents running between 2010 and 2022 was 60.1. Of them, a record high of 41, or 67.2%, faced primary challengers. Between 2010 and 2022, the average number of contested incumbents was 22.6.

Sixteen incumbents, including five in the Senate and 11 in the House, did not file for re-election in 2024. All retiring incumbents were Republicans. The average number of retirements from 2010 to 2022 was 11.7.

Wyoming has had a Republican trifecta since 2011. Since 1992, the state has had 22 years of Republican trifectas and no Democratic trifectas.

Open seats

The table below shows the number and percentage of open seats in the Wyoming State Senate from 2010 to 2024. It will be updated as information becomes available following the state’s candidate filing deadline.

Open Seats in Wyoming State Senate elections: 2010 - 2024
Year	Total seats	Open seats	Seats with incumbents running for re-election
2024	15	5 (33 percent)	10 (67 percent)
2022	16	2 (13 percent)	14 (87 percent)
2020	15	4 (27 percent)	11 (73 percent)
2018	15	2 (13 percent)	13 (87 percent)
2016	15	6 (40 percent)	9 (60 percent)
2014	15	2 (13 percent)	13 (87 percent)
2012	15	1 (7 percent)	14 (93 percent)
2010	15	4 (27 percent)	11 (73 percent)

Legislative referrals

See also: Legislative referral

A legislative referral, or legislatively referred ballot measure, is a ballot measure that appears on the ballot due to a vote of the state legislature. A legislative referral can be a constitutional amendment, state statute, or bond issue.

As of the 2024 election, a two-thirds vote was required during one legislative session for the Wyoming State Legislature to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot. That amounted to a minimum of 42 votes in the Wyoming House of Representatives and 21 votes in the Wyoming State Senate, assuming no vacancies. Amendments did not require the governor's signature to be referred to the ballot.

At the time of the 2024 election, Republicans held a 29-2 majority in the Senate and a 57-5 majority in the House. Democrats needed to win 19 Senate seats and 37 House seats to be able to pass legislative referrals without Republican votes. Republicans needed to lose 9 Senate seats and 16 House seats to lose the same ability.

Process to become a candidate

See also: Ballot access requirements for political candidates in Wyoming

See statutes: Title 22-5 of the Wyoming Election Code

Major party candidates

A candidate seeking the nomination of a major party for state or federal office must be registered with the party whose nomination he or she seeks. The candidate must submit an application for nomination form to the Wyoming Secretary of State. If running for state legislative office, the candidate must be a resident of the district in which he or she seeks election for at least 12 months preceding the election. If running for governor, the candidate must be a resident of the state for at least five years prior to the election. If running for another statewide office, the candidate must be a registered elector in the state.

The application must be accompanied by a filing fee. No application will be considered valid without a filing fee. The candidate must file the application and filing fee no later than 81 days before the primary election.

Filing fees by office
Office	Filing fee
Governor United States Senator Secretary of state State auditor State treasurer	$300
Wyoming House of Representatives Wyoming State Senate	$100

Minor and provisional party candidates

A candidate seeking the nomination of a minor or provisional party is nominated by party convention. To be certified as the nominee of a minor or provisional party at a party's state convention, the candidate must submit an application for nomination to the Wyoming Secretary of State, along with the required filing fee (the filing fees are the same as those required of major party candidates). The candidate must file the requisite paperwork no later than 81 days prior the primary election.

Independent candidates

An independent candidate for partisan office must be nominated by filing a signed petition. The petition must be approved by the Wyoming Secretary of State prior to circulation. The petition must be accompanied by the same fee required of party candidates. Petitions must be filed with the Wyoming Secretary of State no later than 70 days before a general election.

For a statewide office, the petition must be signed by registered electors, which are defined as residents of the state eligible to vote for the petitioner, numbering at least 2 percent of the total number of votes cast for United States Representative in the last general election for the entire state.

For a state legislative office, the petition must be signed by registered electors equaling at least 2 percent of the total number of votes cast for the office in that particular district in the last general election.

Write-in candidates

Each person who requests to have all votes cast for him or her as a write-in candidate counted must file an application for candidacy together with the appropriate filing fee with Wyoming Secretary of State no later than two days after the election in which the person desires to have the write-in votes counted.

Qualifications

See also: State legislature candidate requirements by state

Section 2 of Article 3 of the Wyoming Constitution states, "Senators shall be elected for the term of four (4) years and representatives for the term of two (2) years. The senators elected at the first election shall be divided by lot into two classes as nearly equal as may be. The seats of senators of the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of the first two years, and of the second class at the expiration of four years. No person shall be a senator who has not attained the age of twenty-five years, or a representative who has not attained the age of twenty-one years, and who is not a citizen of the United States and of this state and who has not, for at least twelve months next preceding his election resided within the county or district in which he was elected."

Salaries and per diem

See also: Comparison of state legislative salaries

State legislative salaries, 2024
Salary	Per diem
$150/day	$109/day

When sworn in

See also: When state legislators assume office after a general election

Wyoming legislators assume office the first Monday in January in odd-numbered years.

Wyoming political history

Trifectas

A state government trifecta is a term that describes single-party government, when one political party holds the governor's office and has majorities in both chambers of the legislature in a state government.

Wyoming Party Control: 1992-2024
No Democratic trifectas  •  Twenty-two years of Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.

Year	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
Governor	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R
Senate	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R
House	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R

Presidential politics in Wyoming

2020

See also: Presidential election, 2020

Presidential election in Wyoming, 2020

		Candidate/Running mate	%	Popular votes	Electoral votes
✔		Donald Trump/Mike Pence (R)	69.5	193,559	3
		Joe Biden/Kamala D. Harris (D)	26.4	73,491	0
		Jo Jorgensen/Spike Cohen (L)	2.1	5,768	0
		Brock Pierce/Karla Ballard (Independent)	0.8	2,208	0
		Other write-in votes	1.2	3,477	0

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Incumbents are bolded and underlined The results have been certified.

Total votes: 278,503

2016

See also: Presidential election, 2016

U.S. presidential election, Wyoming, 2016
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes	Electoral votes
	Democratic	Hillary Clinton/Tim Kaine	21.9%	55,973	0
	Republican	Donald Trump/Mike Pence	68.2%	174,419	3
	Libertarian	Gary Johnson/Bill Weld	5.2%	13,287	0
	Green	Jill Stein/Ajamu Baraka	1%	2,515	0
	Constitution	Darrell Lane Castle/Scott Bradley	0.8%	2,042	0
	Independent	Roque De La Fuente/Michael Steinberg	0.3%	709	0
	-	Write-in votes	2.7%	6,904	0
Total Votes				255,849	3
Election results via: Wyoming Secretary of State

Wyoming presidential election results (1900-2024)

• 7 Democratic wins
• 25 Republican wins

Year	1900	1904	1908	1912	1916	1920	1924	1928	1932	1936	1940	1944	1948	1952	1956	1960	1964	1968	1972	1976	1980	1984	1988	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008	2012	2016	2020	2024
Winning Party	R	R	R	D	D	R	R	R	D	D	D	R	D	R	R	R	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R

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Footnotes

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Current members of the Wyoming State Senate

Leadership

Senate President:Bo Biteman

Majority Leader:Tara Nethercott

Minority Leader:Mike Gierau

Senators

District 1

Ogden Driskill (R)

District 2

Brian Boner (R)

District 3

Cheri Steinmetz (R)

District 4

Tara Nethercott (R)

District 5

Lynn Hutchings (R)

District 6

Darin Smith (R)

District 7

Stephan Pappas (R)

District 8

Jared Olsen (R)

District 9

Chris Rothfuss (D)

District 10

Gary Crum (R)

District 11

Larry Hicks (R)

District 12

John Kolb (R)

District 13

Stacy Jones (R)

District 14

Laura Taliaferro Pearson (R)

District 15

Wendy Davis Schuler (R)

District 16

Dan Dockstader (R)

District 17

Mike Gierau (D)

District 18

Tim French (R)

District 19

Dan Laursen (R)

District 20

Ed Cooper (R)

District 21

Bo Biteman (R)

District 22

Barry Crago (R)

District 23

Eric Barlow (R)

District 24

Troy McKeown (R)

District 25

Cale Case (R)

District 26

Tim Salazar (R)

District 27

Bill Landen (R)

District 28

James Anderson (R)

District 29

Robert Ide (R)

District 30

Charles Scott (R)

District 31

Evie Brennan (R)

Republican Party (29)

Democratic Party (2)