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With Tuesday's primary elections now complete, the slate of candidates is set for Wisconsin's U.S. House elections in November.
In the 7th Congressional District, Michael Alfonso of Hayward, the 26-year-old son-in-law of U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, won a crowded, often-contentious Republican primary.
Fred Clark, 67, of Bayfield, a state Assembly member from 2009 to 2015, won the Democratic primary over two others.
In the 7th District congressional primary in Florence County, Alfonso led Republicans with 465 votes, followed by Kevin Hermening with 138 and Jessi Ebben with 134. In the Democratic primary, Ginger Murray led with 126 votes, while Chris Armstrong and Clark collected 84 apiece.
The winner of the general election will replace U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Minocqua, who is running for governor.
In the region, the 7th Congressional District includes all of Florence, Forest, Oneida and Iron counties.
In the 8th Congressional District in northeast Wisconsin, which includes Green Bay and Marinette County, Rick Crosson of Green Bay defeated two other Democrats running in the primary. A former Green Bay School Board member, he was in the U.S. Army for 20 years before retiring as a lieutenant colonel and a master U.S. Army aviator, then worked running large transportation and logistics.
Crosson will face U.S. Rep. Tony Wied, R-De Pere. This is the first time Wied will stand for reelection. He was elected to replace Republican Mike Gallagher in 2024.
The 8th District Democratic primary in Marinette County had Christopher Scheffler receiving 982 votes; Katrina Neville, 918; and Crosson, 876. Republican Wied drew 4,179 votes.
Other results in Wisconsin Congressional Districts include:
-- 1st District: In southeast Wisconsin, Mitchell Berman, an emergency room nurse from Racine County, won the Democratic primary. He'll face Republican U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil of Janesville in November. While Steil has a record of lopsided wins dating back to 2018, the district is considered competitive on paper.
-- 2nd District: In the heavily Democratic 2nd Congressional District, U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, a Democrat from the town of Vermont, easily defeated primary challenger Douglas Alexander. With no Republicans running for the district, the primary win means Pocan is headed back to Congress, where he has served since 2013.
-- 3rd District: Rebecca Cooke won the Democratic primary against Emily Berge in western Wisconsin's 3rd District Tuesday, setting up a rematch with U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Prairie du Chien. The 3rd District is the most competitive seat in Wisconsin and among the most competitive in the country. Van Orden defeated Cooke by a 2.7 point margin in 2024.
-- 4th District: In the heavily Democratic 4th Congressional District -- held since 2005 by U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Milwaukee -- Moore easily held off a primary challenge from Democrat Amy Donahue. In the Republican primary, which featured a rematch of 2024 candidates, Tim Rogers defeated Purnima Nath.
-- 5th District: There was no primary in the heavily Republican 5th Congressional District, which includes Milwaukee's suburbs and surrounding rural areas. Incumbent U.S. Rep. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Clyman, has held the seat since 2021. He'll face Democrat Andrew Beck in November.
-- 6th District: In the 6th Congressional District, Democrat Brad Smith bested Amanda Bell to face U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman, R-Glenbeulah, in the general election. The district stretches from Manitowoc in the northeast to Portage in the southwest. Grothman has held it since 2015.
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Daily News staff contributed to this report.