Wisconsin Senate districts

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Wisconsin Senate districts are the geographic electoral divisions within the state of Wisconsin from which members of the Wisconsin State Senate are elected.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf legislative electoral district
state legislative district
appliesToElections partisan state legislative elections
appliesToJurisdiction Wisconsin
surface form: State of Wisconsin
basisOfApportionment population
boundaryChangesTriggeredBy population changes identified in census
cartographicallyRepresentedAs district maps
country United States of America
surface form: United States
dataAvailableFrom Wisconsin Elections Commission
Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau
definesConstituencyFor Wisconsin State Senate seats
electoralSystem single-member districts
electorate residents of Wisconsin meeting voter eligibility requirements
elects Wisconsin state senator
governedBy Wisconsin Constitution
hasBoundaryType geographic
hasChamberSize 33 members in Wisconsin State Senate
hasElectoralCycle even-numbered years
hasHistoricalPrecedent earlier configurations of Wisconsin legislative districts
hasLegalStatus statutory
hasOddEvenStaggering not all districts up for election in the same year
hasOfficialOnlineResource Wisconsin State Legislature
surface form: Wisconsin Legislature website
hasRelationshipTo Wisconsin State Assembly districts
hasSubdivisionPattern each Senate district contains three Assembly districts
hasTypeOfRepresentation territorial representation
languageOfOfficialDescriptions English
legislativeChamber Wisconsin State Senate
levelOfGovernment state
locatedIn Wisconsin
mapsPublishedBy Wisconsin Legislative Technology Services Bureau
Wisconsin State Legislature
surface form: Wisconsin Legislature
numberOfDistricts 33
overlapsWith Wisconsin State Assembly districts
partOf Wisconsin State Senate
redistrictedAfter decennial United States census
regulatedBy Wisconsin state law
relatedTo Wisconsin congressional districts
local government wards in Wisconsin
staggeredElections true
subjectOf Wisconsin redistricting plans
public policy and political analysis in Wisconsin
redistricting litigation in Wisconsin
termLengthOfElectedOffice 4 years
upperOrLowerHouse upper house
usedFor election of Wisconsin state senators
usedIn state legislative elections in Wisconsin
votingSystem first-past-the-post

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Wisconsin State Senate represents Wisconsin Senate districts
Iron County, Wisconsin stateLegislativeDistrict Wisconsin Senate districts
this entity surface form: Wisconsin State Senate District 25
Langlade County, Wisconsin stateSenateDistrict Wisconsin Senate districts
this entity surface form: Wisconsin State Senate District 12