Highest Number of Military Veterans Running for Congress Since 2012: Report

Early voting for the midterms started in Virginia on Sept. 23. inside the early voting room in the Fairfax County Government Center, an early voting site, in Fairfax, Va., on Oct. 7, 2022. Terri Wu/The Epoch Times

An increasing number of individuals with military experience are running in the 2022 elections this year, new research has found.

According to research by Veterans Campaign and Military Times, 184 House candidates with some degree of military experience won major party primaries earlier this year and are set to appear on state ballots in the upcoming midterms in November.