The Seventy-First Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 14, 1953, to November 6, 1953, in regular session.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court ultimately struck down this second plan, finding that the state constitution did not allow for the Legislature to pass more than one redistricting plan per decennial census.

[2] This was the first time in 60 years that the court got involved in a Wisconsin redistricting dispute, but it would be the start of a pattern of state and federal courts handling Wisconsin redistricting for subsequent decades.

Senators representing even-numbered districts were newly elected for this session and were serving the first two years of a four-year term.

[1] The governor of Wisconsin during this entire term was Republican Walter J. Kohler Jr., of Sheboygan County, serving his second two-year term, having won re-election in the 1952 Wisconsin gubernatorial election.