Democratic and Republican candidates seeking to represent the 8th and 9th congressional districts will be unopposed in the primary election but will go head-to-head in the November General Election.

Here is a look at the races:

8th District

In the 8th District, veteran Democratic congressman Matt A. Cartwright of Moosic will face Republican challenger Robert P. Bresnahan Jr. of Dallas Township in November.

Cartwright defeated Jim Bognet of Hazle Township in the 2022 election - 146,956 to 139,930. He has served in the U.S. House since January 2013.

Bresnahan is a venture capitalist who founded RPB Ventures, a company that develops, rehabilitates, builds and markets properties. He also heads up Kuharchik Construction, a company founded by his grandparents.

The district includes all of Lackawanna, Pike and Wayne counties and parts of Luzerne and Monroe counties, in the townships of Barrett, Chestnuthill, Coolbaugh, Hamilton, Jackson, Middle Smithfield, Paradise, Pocono, Price and parts of Ross.

9th District

In the 9th District, Republican Congressman Dan Meuser of Jackson Township will face Democratic challenger Amanda R. Waldman of Mill Creek Township in November. This will be a rematch of the 2022 campaign in which Meuser won 209,185 to 92,622.

Meuser was first elected to congress in 2018 and previously served as the Secretary of Revenue in the cabinet of former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett.

Waldman is a financial representative in the Medicare industry.

Under previous boundaries of congressional districts in prior years, both Cartwright and Meuser represented Carbon, Schuylkill and Monroe counties.