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109th Lineup: 4 D, 4 R
108th Lineup: 4 D, 4 R
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Wisconsin lost a congressional district in the 2000 Census. Ordinarily that would trigger a fierce battle between a Republican governor and Assembly and Democratic state Senate. But in May 2001 5th District Democrat Tom Barrett announced he was running for governor. His north Milwaukee district had lost population and was easy to eliminate. The result was a consensus plan, approved by the House delegation, passed by both houses of the legislature and signed by the governor in March 2002. A lawsuit brought a year earlier was dismissed a day later. This is one state that produced a plan with regularly shaped districts with obvious communities of interest; it was also a plan that enabled all eight incumbents running to win reelection easily.