Republican Party of Wisconsin | |
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Chairperson | Brian Schimming |
Senate Leader | Chris Kapenga (President) Devin LeMahieu (Majority Leader) |
Assembly Leader | Robin Vos (Speaker) Tyler August (Majority Leader) |
Founded | March 20, 1854, in Ripon |
Headquarters | Madison, Wisconsin |
Student wing | Wisconsin Federation of College Republicans |
Ideology | Conservatism |
National affiliation | Republican Party |
Colors | Red |
U.S. Senate (Wisconsin seats) | 1 / 2 |
U.S. House (Wisconsin seats) | 5 / 8 |
Statewide offices | 1 / 5 |
Seats in the Wisconsin Senate | 18 / 33 |
Seats in the Wisconsin Assembly | 54 / 99 |
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The Republican Party of Wisconsin is a conservative political party in Wisconsin and is the Wisconsin affiliate of the United States Republican Party (GOP). The state party chair is Brian Schimming.[1] The state party is divided into 72 county parties for each of the state's counties,[2] as well as organizations for the state's eight congressional districts.[3] It currently controls the majority of Wisconsin's U.S. House seats, one of its U.S. Senate seats, and has supermajorites in both houses of the state legislature.