86th Wisconsin Legislature

86th Wisconsin Legislature
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Wisconsin State Capitol
Overview
Legislative body	Wisconsin Legislature
Meeting place	Wisconsin State Capitol
Term	January 3, 1983 – January 7, 1985
Election	November 2, 1982
Senate
Members	33
Senate President	Fred Risser (D)
President pro tempore	William A. Bablitch (D) until July 31, 1983
Party control	Democratic
Assembly
Members	99
Assembly Speaker	Thomas A. Loftus (D)
Speaker pro tempore	David Clarenbach (D)
Party control	Democratic
Sessions
Regular January 3, 1983 – January 7, 1985
Special sessions
Jan. 1983 Spec. January 4, 1983 – January 6, 1983 Apr. 1983 Spec. April 12, 1983 – April 14, 1983 Jul. 1983 Spec. July 11, 1983 – July 14, 1983 Oct. 1983 Spec. October 18, 1983 – October 28, 1983 Feb. 1984 Spec. February 2, 1984 – February 4, 1984 May 1984 Spec. May 22, 1984 – May 24, 1984

The Eighty-Sixth Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 3, 1983, to January 7, 1985, in regular session, and also convened in six special sessions.^[1]

This was the only legislative session under the legislative redistricting plan imposed by a panel of federal judges in 1982 in the case Wisconsin State AFL-CIO v. Elections Board.^[2] The district plan was intended to be punitive, scrambling the district numbers and putting incumbents in head-to-head contests. During this session, the legislature and governor agreed on a new redistricting plan to supersede the court plan, the only time this has been done in Wisconsin history.

Senators representing odd-numbered districts were newly elected for this session and were serving the first two years of a four-year term. Assembly members were elected to a two-year term. Assembly members and odd-numbered senators were elected in the general election of November 2, 1982. Senators representing even-numbered districts were serving the third and fourth year of a four-year term, having been elected in the general election of November 4, 1980.^[1]