Former CIA officer Eric Conroy, and former radio talk show host and television meteorologist Carey Coleman, won their respective Ohio Congressional Republican primaries and will continue their bids to unseat incumbent Democrats in the Nov. 3 general election.
Ohio Congressional Districts 1 and 13 faced competitive primaries on May 5.
The 2026 election features newly drawn House district maps after a last-minute agreement between Democrats and Republicans, who have a supermajority in the state legislature.
For the third straight election cycle, Ohio will have 15 seats in Congress. That is the state’s smallest delegation since before the Civil War.
Republicans currently hold 10 of those seats.
In the First Congressional District—which covers part of southwest Ohio, including left-leaning Cincinnati—Conroy will face incumbent Democrat Greg Landsman, who won his primary against challenger Damon Lynch….