Wisconsin's 49th Assembly district

{{Short description|American legislative district in southwest Wisconsin}}

{{Infobox United States legislative district

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| From 2024 to 2031

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| From 2022 to 2023

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| From 2012 to 2021

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|image caption = 2024 map defined in {{nowrap|[https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/related/acts/94 2023 Wisc. Act 94]}}
2022 map defined in [https://www.wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&seqNo=512188 Johnson v. Wisconsin Elections Commission]
2011 map was defined in {{nowrap|[https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2011/related/acts/43 2011 Wisc. Act 43]}}

|chamber = Assembly

|state = Wisconsin

|district = 49

|representative = Travis Tranel

|residence = Cuba City

|party = Republican

|incumbentsince = January 3, 2011 ({{age|2011|1|3}} years)

|Democratic =

|Republican =

|population = 59,584

|population_year = 2020

|voting_age = 47,347

|percent_white = 93.49

|percent_black = 1.87

|percent_hispanic = 2.0

|percent_asian = 0.97

|percent_native_american = 1.09

|percent_pacific_islander = 0.06

|percent_multiracial =

|percent_other_race =

|website = [https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/districts/assembly/49 Official website]

|notes = Southwest Wisconsin

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Wisconsin's 49th Assembly district is one of 99 districts in the Wisconsin State Assembly.{{Cite web |url= https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/districts/assembly/49 |title=Assembly District 49 |website= Wisconsin Legislature |access-date= February 2, 2021 }} Located in southwest Wisconsin, the district comprises all of Crawford County and most of Grant County. It includes the cities of Boscobel, Fennimore, Lancaster, Platteville, and Prairie du Chien, and the villages of Bagley, Bell Center, Bloomington, Cassville, De Soto, Dickeyville, Eastman, Ferryville, Gays Mills, Lynxville, Mount Hope, Mount Sterling, Patch Grove, Potosi, Soldiers Grove, Steuben, Tennyson, Wauzeka, and Woodman. The district also contains the University of Wisconsin–Platteville campus, Wyalusing State Park, and Nelson Dewey Memorial State Park, and historic landmarks such as the Potosi Brewery and the Grant County Courthouse.{{Cite web |url= https://maps.legis.wisconsin.gov/?asm=49&single=y |title= Wisconsin Legislative Districts - Assembly District 49 Boundaries |website= Wisconsin Legislature |access-date= February 2, 2021 }} The district has been represented by Travis Tranel, a Republican, since January 2011.{{Cite web |url= https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2021/legislators/assembly/2206 |title= Representative Travis Tranel |website= Wisconsin Legislature |access-date= February 2, 2021}}

The 49th Assembly district is located within Wisconsin's 17th Senate district, along with the 50th and 51st Assembly districts.{{cite act |url = https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/related/acts/94 |type= Act |index= 94 |year= 2023 |legislature= Wisconsin Legislature |title = An Act ... relating to: legislative redistricting |accessdate= February 23, 2024 }}

File:Wyalusing Academy overhead river 01.jpg|Wyalusing Academy, in Prairie du Chien, with the Mississippi River in the background

File:Grant-county-courthouse3.jpg|right|Historic Grant County Courthouse in Lancaster.

File:Platteville's Main Street.JPG|right|Downtown Platteville.

File:WyalusingStateParkWisconsinRiverIntoMississippiRiver.jpg|right|Wyalusing State Park.

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.{{cite report|url= http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WIBlueBk1973 |title= The state of Wisconsin 1973 Blue Book |year= 1973 |publisher= State of Wisconsin |editor-last1= Theobald |editor-first1= H. Rupert |editor-last2= Robbins |editor-first2= Patricia V. |location= Madison, Wisconsin |author= Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau |chapter-url= https://images.library.wisc.edu/WI/EFacs/WIBlueBks/BlueBks/WIBlueBk1973/reference/wi.wibluebk1973.i0011.pdf |chapter= Legislature |pages= 227–230 |access-date= February 24, 2021 }} Under the pre-1972 districting scheme, Grant County was a single-district county. The 49th district was drawn mostly in line with the former Grant County district, but with several municipalities in the northwest portion of the state removed. The last representative of the Grant County district, James N. Azim Jr., was elected in 1972 as the first representative of the 49th Assembly district.{{cite report|url= http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WIBlueBk1975 |title= The state of Wisconsin 1975 Blue Book |publisher= State of Wisconsin |year= 1975 |editor-last1= Theobald |editor-first1= H. Rupert |editor-last2= Robbins |editor-first2= Patricia V. |author= Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau |chapter-url= https://images.library.wisc.edu/WI/EFacs/WIBlueBks/BlueBks/WIBlueBk1975/reference/wi.wibluebk1975.i0007.pdf |chapter= Biographies |pages= 54–55 |accessdate= February 25, 2021 }}

With the exception of the 1982 court-ordered redistricting plan, which scrambled all State Assembly districts,{{cite court |url= https://cite.case.law/f-supp/543/630/ |litigants= Wisconsin State AFL-CIO v. Elections Board |court= E.D. Wis. |date= June 9, 1982 |vol= 543 |reporter= F. Supp. |opinion= 630 |accessdate= February 7, 2021 |via= Case Law Project }} the 49th district has remained based in Grant County since 1972. The boundaries have varied somewhat, utilizing different combinations of neighboring municipalities in Richland, Iowa, and Lafayette counties.