Retiring Guy's Digest: Wisconsin 2026 elections: Vincent Marisse announces re-election bid in Assembly District 71

Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Wisconsin 2026 elections: Vincent Marisse announces re-election bid in Assembly District 71

The 71st includes most of Portage County and the Town of Leona in northeast Adams County.

Maps and election results: Ballotpedia

Photo and headline: Point/Plover Metro Wire, 4/23/2026

Patrick Lynn reports:

Miresse, who was first elected to the Assembly in 2024, said he plans to continue focusing on affordability and economic stability for working families if reelected.
“I’m excited to announce that I will be running for re-election to the Wisconsin State Assembly,” Miresse said in a statement.
“In the Assembly, my top priority has been to ensure working families in Wisconsin can thrive. That means fighting for affordability in housing and healthcare, quality public education, and a strong economy that grows the middle class and ensures hard-working folks can get ahead.”

Related reading:

Wisconsin Applied Population Lab, 6/18/2018

Malia Jones explains:

Two core concepts of gerrymandering were central to the arguments presented to the high court: cracking and packing. A third process, known as stacking, also crops up in gerrymandered political maps, but was not the focus of Gill v. Whitford.

Cracking and packing both refer to specific ways of drawing legislative boundaries with the outcomes of elections in mind. These two processes operate in tension with one another, but both can be implemented by a party in power seeking to maximize its electoral chances through gerrymandering.

Packing refers to the practice of drawing particular districts in such a way as to ensure that another party's candidate wins that seat by a tremendous margin. Although the opposing party is all but guaranteed the seat, packing makes surrounding districts less competitive, and thus tips the balance of power in the legislative body overall toward the ruling party.

Cracking involves drawing districts in such a way as to divide a concentration of specific types of voters across several districts such that they are a minority in each one, with practically no hope of achieving representation in any of the districts. This practice also helps make districts less competitive. [emphasis added]

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