Wyoming primary features unprecedented slate of open-seat contests across governor, Senate and House races

Wyoming’s June primary will decide nominees for an unusually large number of open seats after Governor Mark Gordon and Senator Cynthia Lummis announced they will not seek re-election, and Rep. Harriet Hageman entered the Senate race. This marks the first time in 32 years that the governor’s office, a U.S. Senate seat and a U.S. House seat are all vacant simultaneously. Four Republicans—Megan Degenfelder, Eric Barlow, Brent Bien and Curt Blake—are contesting the GOP nomination for governor, with Degenfelder receiving a Trump endorsement and raising roughly $1.3 million.

In the Senate contest, Hageman leads a field that includes Sam Mead and Jimmy Skovgard, having raised about $2.4 million, again backed by Trump. The House primary features nine Republicans, notably self-funded candidates Steve Friess ($3 million loan), Reid Rasner ($1.9 million loan) and Chuck Gray ($1.4 million loan), while neither Trump nor Hageman have endorsed any candidate. Democratic challengers are few, with Kenneth Casner and James Byrd as the sole fund-raising Democrats in the governor and Senate races respectively. With Republicans holding all statewide offices and supermajorities in the legislature, the primary outcomes will heavily shape Wyoming’s political landscape heading into the 2026 midterms.