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Sam Levine in New York

Wisconsin judicial race: contenders chosen in pivotal election for 2023

People protesting gerrymandering in Wisconsin
Wisconsin’s supreme court is expected to rule on important gerrymandering, voting rights and abortion cases. Photograph: Mark Hertzberg/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

Wisconsin voters on Tuesday chose one liberal and one conservative candidate to face off in a race to determine control of the state supreme court in what is likely the most important election of 2023.

Janet Protasiewicz, a liberal Milwaukee circuit court judge, will be on the ballot against Daniel Kelly, a conservative former supreme court justice, in the state’s 4 April general election. Protasiewicz, who received 46% of the statewide vote, and Kelly, who received 24% of the statewide vote, advanced from a four-member field that included Everett Mitchell, a liberal judge in Dane county, and Jennifer Dorow, a conservative judge in Waukesha county.

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