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SOMEONE, PLEASE UPDATE THIS WITH THE CURRENT PEOPLE! District Attorney 00:36, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Geez, calm down. Most of the people listed already were the current people before you changed the article. This list does not need to change until some time in January, when the newly elected people are sworn in. Until then, the article is accurate. --Rob Kennedy 07:34, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OOPSIES-SORRY! Someone else changed the State Senate article so I did this by mistake!

It's January 1 and I changed it to the 2007 people, since it is official now. District Attorney 21:39, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Also, now somebody can change the member list because it is official. I added the new officers! Happy editing, District Attorney 23:36, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, the democrats gained several seats, it is a 52-47 GOP majority now.

The link for John Murtha goes to the US congressman's page.

Feb. 2012 - Anyone with relevant info please update to include redistricting changes as an addendum; there will be numerous changes to the assembly makeup and district lines... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.92.187.214 (talk) 22:55, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

February 2009 updates

I created stub articles for the new Democrats. I updated the 'preceded' and 'succeeded' fields in the relevant articles. I fixed the wikifying of names pointing to the wrong people with the right names. I had created stub articles for the Republican leadership people earlier as examples, but apparently there was no interest in replicating that to the rest of the Republicans. I'm moving on to other states, but perhaps someone interested in Wisconsin will create the rest of those stubs. Flatterworld (talk) 21:02, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Popular Vote Numbers Stated at the Beginning of the Article Are Wrong

Near the top of the article states: "54% - 46% Democratic majority in the popular vote translating into a 61 - 38 Republican majority in the Assembly"

This is contradicted by Wikipedia's own data/article on the 2022 assembly elections: 54% GOP majority vs. 45 % Democratic in the popular vote. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Wisconsin_State_Assembly_election). The Wisconsin senate elections were even worse: 61% to 38% GOP advantage in the popular vote (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Wisconsin_State_Senate_election).

Please get this information right before placing it conspicuously at the front of the article. 24.127.33.121 (talk) 21:28, 25 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Clarified. The bit is about the 2018 election. Prolog (talk) 22:24, 25 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please Use Popular Vote Data from More than Just One Election

The article at the beginning cites data to apparently make the point that the maps for Assembly are unfair to Democrats. While that may be true, the article describes data for only one election: 2018. That was by far the largest discrepancy between popular vote and assembly seats in recent elections, and the only one in which Republicans did not win the popular vote:

2016: GOP popular vote of 52% and GOP assembly seats of 64% (12% difference) 2018: 45% to 63% (18% difference) 2020: 52% to 62% (10% difference) 2022: 54% to 65% (11% difference)

Please provide a more representative and complete description of recent popular votes if such information is placed prominently at the beginning of the article. Right now, to identify solely the election that most favored democrats, the only election democrats won the popular vote, appears to be cherrypicking data to support a position (the maps are too unfair to democrats).

An alternative would be to: 1) place all the relevant data provided above in that section and let readers make up their own mind on the fairness of the election results (possibly considering the respect for local governments and communities of interest that are included in the Wisconsin maps, but not for instance in Illinois); 2) place the 2022 election data next to the 2018 election data to show the full scope of recent elections; or 3) remove discussion of political fairness from the beginning of the article (it is not, for instance, included at the beginning of the Illinois House of Representatives which also disproportionately favors one party, the Democrats, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_House_of_Representatives). 108.75.173.125 (talk) 22:31, 7 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]