Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district
Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district covers most of the Driftless Area in southwestern and western Wisconsin. The district includes the cities of Eau Claire, La Crosse, and Stevens Point, as well as many Wisconsin exurbs of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. It borders the states of Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois. Republican Derrick Van Orden has represented the district since 2023.
The political nature of the district is moderate, given its combination of an overall rural and suburban character counterbalanced by two significant urban centers and the Twin Cities suburbs. It historically elected moderate Republicans; before Ron Kind's 1996 victory, only two Democrats represented it in the 20th century. Al Gore, John Kerry, and Barack Obama all carried the district at the presidential level; it then narrowly voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and again in 2020 with slightly increased margins, leading the Cook Partisan Voting Index to adjust the district's partisan lean in 2021 from "even" to R+4.
Composition
By community
For the 118th and successive Congresses, the district contains all or portions of the following counties, towns, and municipalities:Adams County
Buffalo County
Chippewa County
Crawford County
Dunn County
Eau Claire County
Grant County
Jackson County
Juneau County
La Crosse County
Monroe County
Pepin County
Pierce County
Portage County
Richland County
Sauk County
Trempealeau County
Vernon County
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