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The 29th Assembly district is located within Wisconsin's 10th Senate district, along with the 28th and 30th Assembly districts. [ 4 ] Northern portions of the 29th assembly district are within the Minneapolis-Saint Paul Metropolitan Area.
The legislature is a bicameral body composed of the upper house, Wisconsin State Senate, and the lower Wisconsin State Assembly, both of which have had Republican majorities since January 2011. With both houses combined, the legislature has 132 members representing an equal number of constituent districts. The legislature convenes at the state ...
There is a battle for control of the Wisconsin Assembly on Election Day, Nov. 5. It is the first time the whole state will use new legislative maps.
Wisconsin became a U.S. state on May 29, 1848, and special elections were held to fill the first session of the State Assembly; at the time, the body consisted of 66 members. [2] The Assembly was expanded to 82 seats in 1852, and then to 97 seats in 1856, then to 100 seats in 1861, which is the maximum allowed in the Constitution of Wisconsin ...
The Republican-controlled Wisconsin State Assembly has voted to change how the state’s legislative maps are drawn – a major shift in strategy as Republicans face the possibility that the new ...
The existing map heavily favored Republicans — who controlled 64 of 99 seats in the state Assembly and 22 of 33 in the state Senate — in a battleground state that has seen razor-thin margins ...
The Assembly must have between 54 and 100 districts, and the Senate must have no more than one-third and no less than one-quarter of the members of the Assembly. [3] The Wisconsin Constitution further specifies that the boundary of a Senate district cannot cross the boundary of an Assembly district, [4] that the boundary of an Assembly district ...
Republicans who control the Wisconsin Assembly introduced a bill Friday that would call for a binding statewide referendum on whether abortion should be banned after 14 weeks of pregnancy. The GOP ...