State reference

How does government work in Wyoming?

Wyoming’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.

State legislators

Legislature

4 years

Governor’s term

Governor

Counties

Local

Seat in the US House

Clerk of the House

What may surprise you here

Wyoming judges are chosen by merit selection: a Judicial Nominating Commission announces nominees and the governor appoints. source
Wyoming has a Chancery Court, created in 2019, for commercial, business, and trust cases. source

Legislature

Name: Legislature source
Upper chamber: seats: 31 source
Upper chamber: term in years: 4 source
Lower chamber: seats: 62 source
Lower chamber: term in years: 2 source
Term limits: None (term limits were repealed by the state supreme court in 2004) source

Governor and statewide offices

Term in years: 4 source
Term limit: Two consecutive terms source
Next regular election: 2030 source
Lieutenant governor: no such office source
Attorney general: appointed by governor source
Secretary of state: elected source

Courts

Highest court: Supreme Court source
Intermediate appeals court: None source
Main trial court: District courts source
How high-court judges reach the bench: merit selection with retention source

Local government

Called: county source
How many: 23 source
Cities and towns: The Census Bureau counted 99 municipal governments in Wyoming in 2022 and no township governments. source
Schools: The Census Bureau counted 55 independent school district governments in Wyoming in 2022. source

Elections

Chief election official: Secretary of State source
Who runs elections locally: County clerks source
Primary type: closed source
Regular governor elections fall in: even source
Citizen initiatives: yes 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: Mark Gordon Republican, in office since January 7, 2019. source

US senators for Wyoming
Senator	Party	Seat	Senator since	Current term ends
John Barrasso	Republican	Class 1	June 25, 2007	January 3, 2031
Cynthia M. Lummis	Republican	Class 2	January 3, 2021	January 3, 2027

Members of the House for Wyoming
Seat	Member	Party	In the House since
At large	Harriet M. Hageman	Republican	January 3, 2023

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