State reference

How does government work in Wisconsin?

Wisconsin’s legislature, governor, courts, local governments and election offices, with a source for every fact.

Facts checked November 5, 2026. Anything we could not verify from a source is left out rather than guessed. Rules change, so confirm deadlines with the official election office.

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State legislators

Legislature

4 years

Governor’s term

Governor

Counties

Local

Seats in the US House

Clerk of the House

Foundation: Wisconsin Constitution source

What may surprise you here

Wisconsin voters cast a single vote for governor and lieutenant governor together as a joint slate. source
The constitution sets the Senate at no more than one-third and no less than one-fourth of the Assembly’s size. source

Legislature

Name: Wisconsin State Legislature source
Senate: seats: 33 source
Senate: term in years: 4 source
Assembly: seats: 99 source
Assembly: term in years: 2 source

Structure set by: Wisconsin Constitution, Article IV, sections 1 and 2.

Governor and statewide offices

Term in years: 4 source
Term limit: None source
Next regular election: 2030 source
Lieutenant governor: joint ticket source
Attorney general: elected source
Attorney general’s term in years: 4 source
Secretary of state: elected source
Secretary of state’s term in years: 4 source

Courts

Highest court: Supreme Court source
Intermediate appeals court: Court of Appeals source
Main trial court: Circuit Court source
How high-court judges reach the bench: nonpartisan election source

Local government

Called: county source
How many: 72 source
Cities and towns: The Census Bureau counted 605 municipal governments and 1,245 township governments in Wisconsin in 2022. source
Schools: The Census Bureau counted 437 independent school district governments in Wisconsin in 2022. source

Elections

Chief election official: Wisconsin Elections Commission source
Who runs elections locally: Municipal clerks (city, village and town clerks) source
Primary type: open source
Regular governor elections fall in: even source
Citizen initiatives: referendum only source

Who holds these offices

As of November 5, 2026. Terms of the current Congress run to January 3, 2027. Winners of the November 3, 2026 elections are not shown until results are certified and they take office.

Governor: Tony Evers Democratic, in office since January 7, 2019. source

US senators for Wisconsin
Senator	Party	Seat	Senator since	Current term ends
Tammy Baldwin	Democratic	Class 1	January 3, 2013	January 3, 2031
Ron Johnson	Republican	Class 3	January 5, 2011	January 3, 2029

Members of the House for Wisconsin
Seat	Member	Party	In the House since
District 1	Bryan Steil	Republican	January 3, 2019
District 2	Mark Pocan	Democratic	January 3, 2013
District 3	Derrick Van Orden	Republican	January 3, 2023
District 4	Gwen Moore	Democratic	January 4, 2005
District 5	Scott Fitzgerald	Republican	January 3, 2021
District 6	Glenn Grothman	Republican	January 6, 2015
District 7	Thomas P. Tiffany	Republican	May 19, 2020
District 8	Tony Wied	Republican	November 5, 2024

Boundaries for the 119th Congress, simplified from the Census Bureau cartographic boundary file. For an exact address, use the House lookup.

Who has held each Senate seat since 2001

Each band is one person in the seat. The line marks November 2026; anything to its right is the rest of a current term. Dates through 2026 come from the congress-legislators public dataset, whose current members are matched against the Senate’s own roster on every build.

Senate seat, Class 1