The 3rd Assembly district of

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is one of 99 districts in the

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. Located in northeast

, the district comprises nearly all of Calumet County, and parts of western

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. It includes the cities of Brillion, Chilton, and New Holstein, and the parts of

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and

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which fall within Calumet County. It also contains the villages of

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, Stockbridge, St. Nazianz,

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, and Whitelaw. The district is represented by Republican

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, since January 2017. The 3rd Assembly district is located within

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, along with the

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Assembly districts.

History

The district was created in the 1972 redistricting act
1971 Wisc. Act 304
which first established the numbered district system, replacing the previous system which allocated districts to specific counties. The 3rd district was drawn mostly in line with the previous

2nd district, but exchanged towns in southern Manitowoc for towns in southeastern Brown County, which previously made up the southern half of the Brown County 2nd district. The last representative of the Manitowoc 2nd district, Everett E. Bolle, went on to win the first election to represent the 3rd Assembly district. The boundaries of the 3rd district have changed significantly over the various redistricting laws passed since 1972. The 1982 court-ordered redistricting, which completely scrambled State Assembly districts, moved the 3rd district to southeast Milwaukee County for the 1983–1984 session. The 1983 redistricting act restored the district closer to its previous location, but located it almost entirely in Calumet County. The 1992 court-ordered redistricting added more of southern Brown County and northern

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to the district and removed areas of southeastern

Outagamie County Outagamie County ( ) is a county in the Fox Cities region of the U.S. state of Wisconsin, in the northeast of the state. As of the 2020 census, the population was 190,705. Its county seat is Appleton. Outagamie County is part of the Appleton ...

. The 2002 court-ordered redistricting plan removed towns of Fond du Lac and southern Calumet, and added back areas of southeastern Outagamie County. The district only changed slightly in the 2011 redistricting act
2011 Wisc. Act 43
, removing the remaining towns of Brown County from the district. The 2022 court-ordered redistricting shifted the district further west, adding part of Manitowoc County and shedding towns along the east shore of Lake Winnebago. The 2024 redistricting act restored nearly all of Calumet County to the district (excluding only the part of the city of Kiel that crosses into Calumet County), removed all territory in Outagamie County, and added more of rural western Manitowoc County.

List of past representatives

References

{{Wisconsin state legislature districts Wisconsin State Assembly districts Calumet County, Wisconsin Manitowoc County, Wisconsin