Republicans used their majorities to pass a radical redistricting plan after the 2010 census which substantially shifted the partisan bias of the state legislative maps.
This disproportionality would only grow with future elections, with Republicans consistently winning a large majority of seats while the statewide vote would remain relatively close.
[11] The majority decision also declared that the "least changes" methodology used by the court in 2022 for the Johnson v. Wisconsin Elections Commission case was never properly defined and was without legal or constitutional foundation.
[15] In response to this inaction, Wisconsin Democrats launched a six-figures campaign called "No More Games" which served the purpose to pressure and target members of the Committee from competitive districts.
He argued that Vos was a supporter of the Chinese Communist Party, had refused to help lower prescription drug costs, and derided members of the petition as "whack-jobs, morons and idiots".
[41] Due to the newly competitive legislative maps, Democratic campaign rhetoric has shifted from protecting the governor's veto to winning a majority in the assembly.
In the Democratic primary two candidates announced campaigns to take on Steffen, Jane Benson, the nominee for the 89th district in 2022 and fellow Suamico resident Alexia Unertl.
In the primary both candidates held similar views to each other, differing primarily in their backgrounds and political history, with Benson running for state assembly in the past and organizing for the League of Women Voters and Unertl serving as the vice chair for the Brown County Conservation Congress.
Previously Schmidt had been subject to controversy due to being censured by the Shawano County GOP and being criminally convicted for abuse of a migrant worker on his farm, and was seen as vulnerable to a primary challenge.
Two democrats filed to succeed Cabrera, Priscilla Prado, a business owner and treasurer for the Wisconsin Latino Chamber of Commerce, and Deisy España, a student at Milwaukee Area Technical College and organizer for Voces de la Frontera.
In the primary, former Milwaukee County supervisor Russell Goodwin Sr. defeated UW-Madison law school student Katrina Morrison, and community organizer Brandon Williford.
In the general election Michalski was defeated by Democrat and fellow legislator Robyn Vining after she was moved from the neighboring 14th district into the 13th due to redistricting.
In the primary, Wauwatosa Common Council member Margaret Arney, who was endorsed by Goyke, defeated perennial candidate Angela Kennedy by 30 points.
Brandtjen has been subject to controversy due to her combative relationship with the Republican Caucus and repeated attempts to decertify Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 United States presidential election.
[74] Knodl, having originally represented this district from 2009 to 2023, claimed a desire to run again to give the assembly "a conservative who is respected by his colleagues," as Brandtjen had been barred from closed caucus meetings due to a lack of trust.
In the primary Robin Kreibich, a former representative for the Wisconsin's 93rd Assembly district, faced off against Brady Penfield, a student at the University of Wisconsin–River Falls and defeated him by a margin of 45 votes.
This race was expected to be one of the closest in the cycle, and Zimmerman was targeted by Democrats as part of the "No More Games" campaign for his inaction on the Joint Finance Committee and his positions on abortion.
Fellow Republican and Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly Robin Vos ran for re-election after being moved into this district due to redistricting.
Donovan defeated Martin Gomez by a wide margin in the Republican primary and Democrat LuAnn Bird in the general election, a rematch from 2022.
Educator Angela Stroud defeated John Adams in the Democratic primary and Republican Frank Kostka in the general election.
[91] Under current Wisconsin law, there is no procedure to handle votes cast for a different district's candidates, and it is up to the discretion of local officials to decide a course of action.
Burnett County supervisor Duke Tucker defeated Jay Calhoun and Neil Kline in the Republican primary and Democrat Jane Kleiss in the general election.
Nonprofit executive Renuka Mayadev defeated Thad Schumacher and Chuck Erickson in the Democratic primary and was unopposed in the general election.
He defeated Madison Common Council member Nasra Wehelie in the Democratic primary and Republican Robert Relph in the general election.
In the general election, Snyder defeated Democrat Yee Leng Xiong, a Marathon County supervisor and executive director of the Hmong American Center in Wausau.
Democrat Amaad Rivera-Wagner, chief of staff to Green Bay mayor Eric Genrich, defeated Republican Jessica Henderson in the general election.
Educator Christian Phelps defeated author Nickolas Butler in the Democratic primary and Republican James Rolbiecki in the general election, thus flipping the seat.
In the general election Doyle narrowly defeated Republican Ryan Huebsch, an executive director of the Wisconsin Conservative Energy Forum, in a rematch of 2022.
Retired non-profit executive Tara Johnson won the Democratic primary and defeated Oldenburg in the general election, flipping the seat.
Jim Piwowarczyk defeated former state assembly member Don Pridemore in the Republican primary and Democrat Del Schmechel in the general election.