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Although Wisconsin continues to use the original constitution ratified as Wisconsin achieved statehood, the current constitution is the second document to be proposed as the state constitution. In 1846, the residents of Wisconsin Territory first voted to apply for statehood, and they elected 124 representatives to meet in Madison to author a ...
This year, five amendment questions will be brought to a referendum in total — the most in a single year since 1982, when 10 amendments were ratified. In Wisconsin’s April 2 presidential ...
The referendum question was the fifth and final constitutional amendment posed to Wisconsin voters in 2024. Researchers have found referendum attempts are more common under divided state ...
“Wisconsin Democrats are proud to have organized to defeat these risky and misleading constitutional amendments—marking only the second time since 1996 that a constitutional amendment has been ...
The proposed amendments seek to change how Wisconsin spends federal funds. The child care industry relies heavily on those funds. Constitutional amendment questions on Wisconsin's August ballot ...
The 2024 Wisconsin spring primary was held on February 20, 2024. The filing deadline for the Spring election was January 2, 2024. There were also five constitutional amendments on the ballot in 2024—the largest number of amendments in a single year in Wisconsin since 1986. Two of the amendments were voted on at the Spring general election ...
Wisconsin Referendum 1 of 2006 was a referendum on an amendment to the Wisconsin Constitution that would invalidate same-sex marriages or any substantially similar legal status. The referendum was approved by 59% of voters during the general elections in November 2006. [ 3 ]
Wisconsin voters have approved 148 out of 200 proposed constitutional amendments since the state constitution was adopted in 1848, according to the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau. Since ...