Nominations for three U.S. House of Representatives seats, seven Pennsylvania House of Representatives positions and one Pennsylvania Senator spot are all on the regional Primary Election ballot Tuesday.

Times News area residents in Carbon, Schuylkill, Monroe, Lehigh and Northampton counties will see various candidates for the nominations, depending on which district they reside.

Here’s a look at nominations to be decided Tuesday.

7th Congressional District

In addition to all of Carbon County, the district includes all of Lehigh and Northampton counties and parts of Monroe County, including the townships of Eldred, Polk and some of Ross.

Three-term congresswoman Susan Wild, a Democrat who became the first woman to be appointed Allentown’s City solicitor and the first woman to be elected in the 7th District, where she succeeded Rep. Charlie Dent, is unopposed Tuesday.

She will face the winner of a three-person GOP race between state Rep. Ryan Mackenzie of Lower Macungie Township, who represents the 187th Legislative District in the state’s House of Representatives; Kevin W. Dellicker of Heidelberg Township, who lost in the 2022 GOP primary to Scheller; and Maria Montero of Easton.

Before being elected to his state office, Mackenzie served as the director of policy at the PA Department of Labor & Industry, where he worked on issues relating to unemployment compensation reform, workers’ compensation insurance, the Uniform Construction Code and workforce development

Dellicker is a former intelligence officer in the Air National Guard. He and his wife, Susan, founded Dellicker Strategies, a company that helps organizations upgrade their telecommunications infrastructure while improving their cybersecurity posture and managing complex technology projects.

Montero, a practicing attorney in the Lehigh Valley, is a native of Summit Hill and is the former executive director of the Pennsylvania Commission for Women and the Pennsylvania Latino Commission, having worked in the administration of former Gov. Tom Corbett.

8th Congressional District

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.

Veteran Democratic congressman Matt A. Cartwright of Moosic will face Republican challenger Robert P. Bresnahan Jr. of Dallas Township in November. Both are unopposed Tuesday.

Cartwright 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.

9th Congressional District

The district includes all of Bradford, Columbia, Lebanon, Montour, Northumberland, Schuylkill, Sullivan and Wyoming counties and parts of Berks, Luzerne and Lycoming counties.

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.

PA 29th Senatorial District

The district includes all of Carbon and Schuylkill counties, and parts of Luzerne County, including Bear Creek, Buck, Dennison, Foster and Hazle townships, the City of Hazleton and the boroughs of Bear Creek Village, Freeland, Jeddo, Penn Lake Park, West Hazleton and White Haven.

Republican Sen. David Argall of Lake Hauto is up for re-election this time around. He is unopposed and will face opposition in November from Democrat John Zugarek of White Haven, who is also unopposed for his party’s nomination.

The situation is a bit unusual in that Argall has represented Carbon County for the past two years, even though he never received a vote for the position from Carbon County voters. That’s because the county was moved to the district from the 14th Senatorial District under the redistricting process that took effect in 2023.

Argall was in midterm of a four-year stint at the time and was not up for re-election, and simply began representing Carbon because the state moved the district boundaries.

Argall is seeking his fifth four-year term in the senate, having been first elected in a 2009 special election following the passing of Sen. James J. Rhoades.

Zugarek is a professor at Marywood University, Scranton, and a councilman in White Haven Borough. He previously ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the state House of Representatives.

State House races

122nd District

State Rep. Doyle Heffley is one of six regional Republicans running for re-election in 2024 to the state House of Representatives and appears to have no competition this time around.

Heffley, of Lower Towamensing Township, is the only candidate filing to seek either a Republican or Democratic nomination in the district.

He is seeking his seventh two-year term of office, having initially been elected in the General Election of 2010, then succeeding Democratic Speaker of the House Keith R. McCall of Summit Hill, in serving the district, which includes all of Carbon County.

124th District

Rep. Jamie Barton of East Brunswick Township, a Republican, will face a familiar opponent in November as Democrat Tina M. Burns of Tamaqua is challenging him again. In 2022, Barton defeated her by a margin of 18,228 to 8,366 to win his first two-year term and the seat previously held by Rep. Jerry Knowles before his retirement.

Before being elected to office, Barton was an energy executive. Burns is a U.S. Coast Guard veteran whose career experience includes working as a health care consultant.

The district includes parts of Berks County, including the townships of Albany, Greenwich, Maxatawny, Tilden, Upper Bern, Upper Tulpehocken and Windsor and the boroughs of Hamburg, Kutztown and Lenhartsville, and parts of Schuylkill County, including the townships of Delano, East Brunswick, Rush, Ryan, Schuylkill, South Manheim, Walker, West Brunswick and West Penn, and the boroughs of Auburn, Coaldale, Deer Lake, Landingville, New Ringgold, Orwigsburg, Port Clinton and Tamaqua.

176th District

Republican Rep. Rader of Jackson Township has represented the district since 2015 and his November opponent is the same one of two who he faced in 2022. In that election, Rader defeated Democrat Hope Christman and Libertarian Autumn Pangia, tallying 14,036 votes, compared to 9,024 for Christman and 1,237 for Pangia.

Christman, a hospice social worker, is running again and is unopposed on the Democratic ballot.

The district includes parts of Monroe County, including the townships of Chestnuthill, Eldred, Hamilton, Jackson, Polk, Ross, Tobyhanna and Tunkhannock.

183rd District

Rep. Zach Mako of Lehigh Township, also a Republican, was unopposed in 2022 and received 21,730 complimentary votes from district voters. But he isn’t in the same position this time around, as Republican Zachari R. Halkais of Slatington is challenging him in the primary. The winner pf the nomination will face unopposed Democrat Joseph W. Lenzi of Northampton in the Fall.

Mako is aspiring to his fourth two-year term, having served the district since winning the General Election of 2016. Halkais was sworn into office on the Slatington Borough Council in January 2022, at the age of 19 and is believed to be the youngest officeholder in the borough ever. At the time, he was studying business administration at Lehigh Carbon Community College. Lenzi is a salesman.

The district includes parts of Lehigh County, including the townships of Lowhill and North Whitehall and the Borough of Slatington, and parts of Northampton County, including the townships of Allen, East Allen, Lehigh and Moore (part, Beersville and Klecknersville districts), and the boroughs of Bath, North Catasauqua, Northampton and Walnutport.

187th District

In 2022, because redistricting put them in the same district, Republicans Ryan Mackenzie and Gary W. Day of Heidelberg Township ended up running against each other after the redistricting put Mackenzie in the district, as opposed to the 134th District he was representing. Mackenzie won the nomination, defeating Day by a margin of 5,625 to 3,548 and was unopposed in the General Election, garnering 22,990 token votes to win the seat.

He’s now seeking the congressional seat held by Rep. Wild, and so Day is once again a candidate. He is unopposed on the GOP side and will face Democrat Stefanie Rafes of Lower Macungie Township in the Fall.

Before his life in public office, Day was the director of marketing and human resources for Service Electric Cablevision and the executive assistant to the Allentown mayor. Rafes is a physician assistant.

The district includes parts of Lehigh County, including the townships of Heidelberg, Lower Macungie, Lynn, Upper Macungie (part, Districts 3, 7 and 8), Washington and Weisenberg, and the boroughs of Alburtis and Macungie.

116th District

A November race will take place in the 116th District, where the incumbent, Republican Dane Watro of Kline Township will face Democratic challenger Deborah L. Adoff of East Union Township.

Watro, a U.S. Army veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the former mayor of McAdoo Borough, defeated Democrat Yesenia Rodriguez in 2022 by a margin of 9,811 to 4,571 to win his first two year term of office. Adoff is a retired court stenographer.

The district includes parts of Luzerne County, including the City of Hazleton, the Township of Hazle and the Borough of West Hazleton, and parts of Schuylkill County, including the townships of East Union, Kline, Mahanoy, North Union and Union, and the boroughs of Mahanoy City, McAdoo, Ringtown and Shenandoah.

123rd District

Rep. Tim Twardzik of Butler Township, who first won a seat in the House in the 2020 election, is unopposed within his party and will face Democrat Michael Zvalaren III of Wayne Township, in November.

In 2022, Twardzik defeated Democrat Kathleen Laughlin Benyak by a margin of 17,133 to 7,909.

Before his first election victory, Twardzik retired as the executive vice president and co-owner of Ateeco Inc - Mrs. T’s Pierogies, Shenandoah, where he helped grow the business founded by his father, Ted, into the community’s leading employer. Zvalaren is an adjunct professor at the College of New Jersey, and is a kitchen designer.

The district includes parts of Schuylkill County, including the City of Pottsville, the townships of Blythe, Branch, Butler, Cass, East Norwegian, New Castle, North Manheim, Norwegian, Wayne and West Mahanoy, and the boroughs of Ashland (Schuylkill County portion), Cressona, Frackville, Gilberton, Girardville, Gordon, Mechanicsville, Middleport, Minersville, Mount Carbon, New Philadelphia, Palo Alto, Port Carbon, Schuylkill Haven and Saint Clair.