The 64th Assembly district of Wisconsin is one of 99 districts in the Wisconsin State Assembly. Located in southeast Wisconsin, the district comprises the northeast corner of Kenosha County, including all of the village of Somers and the northern half of the city of Kenosha. The district also contains the University of Wisconsin–Parkside campus, Carthage College, the Kenosha campus of Gateway Technical College, and Kenosha Regional Airport. The district is represented by Democrat Tip McGuire, since May 2019.
The 64th Assembly district is located within Wisconsin's 22nd Senate district, along with the 65th and 66th 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 64th district was drawn from part of the former Kenosha County 1st district, which had encompassed nearly all of the city of Kenosha. The 1972 64th Assembly district was drawn from the north side of the city, the south side wards were used to create a third Kenosha County-based district (the 65th). The last representative of the Kenosha 1st district, George Molinaro, went on to win election as the first representative of the 64th Assembly district.
Other than the 1982 redistricting, which temporarily scrambled State Assembly districts, the boundaries of the 64th district remained relatively consistent for the next 40 years, confined to the wards of the north side of the city of Kenosha. That changed in the controversial 2011 redistricting plan (2011 Wisc. Act 43) which moved the district further north to straddle the boundary between Kenosha and Racine counties. This was done as part of a broader gerrymander of the southeast Wisconsin districts to pack the majority of Racine and Kenosha Democratic votes into one state senate district. This map was only slightly adjusted in the 2022 court-ordered redistricting plan. The 2024 map removed all of the Racine County precincts from the district and added all of the rest of the village of Somers and more of the city of Kenosha.
Notable former representatives of this district include George Molinaro, who was the 62nd speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly, and Peter W. Barca, a one-time U.S. representative (WI-01) and former secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Revenue.
List of past representatives +List of representatives to the Wisconsin State Assembly from the 64th districtMemberPartyResidenceCounties representedTerm startTerm endRef.District created Dem. Kenosha Kenosha January 1, 1973 January 3, 1977 Dem. January 3, 1977 January 3, 1983 Rep. Waukesha Jefferson, Walworth, Waukesha January 3, 1983 January 7, 1985 Dem. Kenosha Kenosha January 7, 1985 June 8, 1993 --Vacant-- June 8, 1993 Dem. Kenosha January 5, 2009 Dem. January 5, 2009 January 8, 2019 Kenosha, Racine --Vacant-- January 8, 2019 May 13, 2019 Dem. Somers May 13, 2019 Current
Electoral history
Year Date Elected Defeated Total Plurality Other primary candidates 1972 Democratic 11,113 74.25% Rep. 3,855 25.75% 14,968 7,258 1974 Democratic 7,220 100.0% 7,220 7,220 1976 Democratic 13,854 100.0% 13,854 13,854 1978 Democratic 8,210 100.0% 8,210 8,210 1980 Democratic 12,988 100.0% 12,988 12,988 1982 Joseph Wimmer Republican 8,470 62.25% Dem. 5,136 37.75% 13,606 3,334 1984 Democratic 14,745 78.43% Rep. 3,741 19.90% 18,801 11,004 Con. 315 1.68% 1986 Democratic 9,439 82.20% Rep. 2,044 17.80% 11,483 7,395 1988 Democratic 14,126 100.0% 14,126 14,126 1990 Democratic 7,389 74.20% Rep. 2,569 25.80% 9,958 4,820 1992 Democratic 15,730 100.0% 15,730 15,730 1993 Democratic 2,940 68.01% Rep. 1,383 31.99% 4,323 1,557 1994 Democratic 9,622 100.0% 9,622 9,622 1996 Democratic 12,867 74.68% Rep. 4,363 25.32% 17,230 8,504 1998 Democratic 11,488 72.64% Rep. 4,328 27.36% 15,816 7,160 2000 Democratic 15,296 99.78% 15,330 15,262 2002 Democratic 8,693 99.95% 8,697 8,689 2004 Democratic 16,340 99.96% 16,347 16,333 2006 Democratic 12,058 98.67% 12,220 11,896 2008 Democratic 19,739 98.71% 19,996 19,482 2010 Democratic 9,667 84.17% Lib. 1,774 15.45% 11,485 7,893 2012 Democratic 20,264 96.84% 20,926 19,602 2014 Democratic 13,887 95.54% 14,536 13,238 2016 Democratic 18,799 97.67% 19,248 18,350 2018 Democratic 16,773 78.32% Con. 4,441 20.74% 21,416 12,332 2019 Democratic 4,424 62.15% Rep. 2,677 37.61% 7,118 1,747 2020 Democratic 16,364 56.00% Rep. 12,813 43.85% 29,219 3,551 2022 Democratic 12,873 56.73% Rep. 9,799 43.19% 22,690 3,074
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