Retiring Guy's Digest: Wisconsin 2026 elections: Democrat Zach Holden challenges freshman GOP incumbent Lindee Brill in 27th Assembly District

Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Wisconsin 2026 elections: Democrat Zach Holden challenges freshman GOP incumbent Lindee Brill in 27th Assembly District

Prior to redistricting, the 27th Assembly District cracked the north side neighborhoods of the City of Sheboygan, diluting the vote in the least conservative municipality in Sheboygan County. The city is now located wholly within the 26th Assembly District, which is represented by a Democrat.

Maps and election results: Ballotpedia

Reactionary conservative Lindee Brill won her first election to the Assembly by 35 points in one of the state's Trumpiest districts. Zach Holden needs to do a better job in getting his name out there.

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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3rd Assembly District. (6/15/2026)

4th Assembly District. (6/17/2026)

5th Assembly District. (6/18/2026)

6th Assembly District. (6/20/2026)

7th Assembly District. (6/21/2026)

8th Assembly District. (6/21/2026)

9th Assembly District. (6/22/2026)

10th Assembly District. (6/23/2026)

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