Uihlein, Abele biggest election losers.

It’s not even close.

No one had a worse Tuesday evening politically than Richard Uihlein.

The multimillionaire from Illinois — who has built a name nationally with his heavy campaign spending — dropped about $10.7 million through third-party groups trying to get Delafield businessman Kevin Nicholson the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate.

It wasn’t enough.

State Sen. Leah Vukmir outpaced Nicholson by more than 25,000 votes with a combination of shoe-leather campaigning and traditional party politics.

Just how much money did Uihlein throw at the race? Consider this: Some of the Uihlein-funded TV spots were still running in Milwaukee three hours after the polls closed and minutes after Vukmir was declared winner in that race.

But Uihlein wasn’t the only loser on Tuesday. Here are a few of the other winners and losers:

Winner: state Democrats

For the first time in some time, election night belonged to the Democrats. They turned out in bigger numbers than Republicans, despite the competitive U.S. Senate primary. This has got to worry some Republicans, including Gov. Scott Walker, heading into the general election.

Just as important, the Democrats left little doubt who they wanted on the November ballot. Tony Evers, Mandela Barnes and Randy Bryce each won by more than 20 percentage points in their respective runs for governor, lieutenant governor and Congress. For most, it was an early evening.

Officially, his third-party group Leadership MKE won two of the three races in which it spent money. But Abele swung and missed on his biggest endorsement, Acting Sheriff Richard Schmidt.

While the rest of Milwaukee’s Democratic establishment lined up behind challenger Earnell Lucas, Abele spent $300,000 on the Bible-quoting incumbent, who ended up losing by 25,000 votes. It’s yet another race — recall former Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. and Milwaukee County Board Chairman Theodore Lipscomb Sr. — where Abele invested hundreds of thousands of dollars and lost.

Winner: Bill Hyers

The campaign strategist used a very successful launch video to turn Bryce from a flawed, three-time political loser into a legitimate congressional candidate with a cool-sounding nickname, IronStache. Now, Hyers will have the

more difficult task of taking on GOP candidate Bryan Steil and the deep pockets of House Speaker Paul Ryan’s campaign machine.

Loser: Kelda Roys

It looked like the table was set for a young female candidate to make a serious run for statewide office, but Roys’ campaign never got off the ground. She finished with 13 percent of the vote in the Dem gubernatorial primary.

What’s even worse, she and her husband took out a $235,000 home equity loan in June to help improve her poor name ID with several TV ads. For those interested in the math, that works out to $3.40 per vote.

Winner: Black Leaders Organizing for Communities (BLOC)

The new organizing group is focused on turning out the African-American vote in Milwaukee, especially during nonpresidential contests. The early returns suggest BLOC is already having an impact.

Three of its candidates — Lucas, Barnes and state Rep. Evan Goyke — won on Tuesday. And BLOC probably played a big hand in helping Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mahlon Mitchell take Milwaukee County. Said one Democratic consultant of BLOC: “They are the machine that drove African-American turnout in Milwaukee (on Tuesday).”

Loser: Milwaukee’s old guard

The #MeToo movement arrived in Milwaukee just in time to push out state Rep. Josh Zepnick, the Democratic lawmaker accused by two female colleagues of kissing them against their will. Also ousted on Tuesday was state Rep. Fred Kessler, an under-performing Dem targeted by Abele.

Neither, it is fair to say, will be missed in Madison.

Winner: Doug La Follette

Nothing is certain in Wisconsin, except death, taxes and La Follette, 78, winning another election for the do-nothing job of secretary of state. The legacy of Fighting Bob, it turns out, has given way to Dug-in Doug.