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The 2022 Oregon gubernatorial election will take place on November 8, 2022, to elect the governor of Oregon. Incumbent Democratic Governor Kate Brown took office on February 18, 2015, upon the resignation of John Kitzhaber. She was subsequently elected in the gubernatorial special election in 2016 and was re-elected to a full term in 2018. Due to term limits, she cannot seek re-election in 2022.The Oregonian anticipated the election to have "the first competitive Democratic primary in more than a decade and potentially the closest such race since 2002." Willamette Week anticipated a "wide open field of Democrats", citing the lack of an incumbent. Almost 20 Republicans ran for the office, including two previous nominees for governor in 1998 and 2016, as well as 15 Democrats and some non-affiliates/third-party members.Oregon is a solid Democratic state at the presidential level, and has not elected a Republican governor since 1982; however, recent margins of victory in the state's gubernatorial elections have been within single digits, and Republicans are predicted to do well nationally in the 2022 elections.In the May 17 primary elections, former House Speaker Tina Kotek was declared the winner of the Democratic primary half an hour after the ballot deadline. The next day, former House Minority Leader Christine Drazan was determined to have won the Republican primary. Notably, the general election will feature three prominent female candidates, including former state Senator Betsy Johnson running as an independent. Incumbent Governor Brown is also the most unpopular governor in the country, which may spell trouble for Kotek, who has often been tied—accurately or not—to the disfavored governor.