Most current lawmakers defeat challengers in state Legislature primaries • Wisconsin Examiner

Election 2024 Voters across Wisconsin weighed in Tuesday on the first primary elections under the state’s new legislative maps. The maps were adopted earlier this year after the state Supreme Court ruled the previous maps unconstitutional.Current legislators who faced challengers from outside the Legislature mostly prevailed. Two of the state’s most well-known election deniers lost their bids.Jeff Mandel of Law Forward, the progressive nonprofit law firm that focuses on voting rights and democracy, during a call on Tuesday afternoon that the slate of contested races “is what democracy looks like in action.”“This is a primary day in Wisconsin where we have more contested primaries than we have had in many, many years, because we finally are free of the nation’s most extreme partisan gerrymander that was strangling democracy in Wisconsin for a decade and a half,” Mandel said.According to an analysis by Marquette Law School Research Fellow John Johnson, Wisconsin had the most contested As...