Appleton: who represents it, and who is running
U.S. general election (federal, state and county offices) votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Representative WI-8 (no U.S. Senate seat in Wisconsin in 2026); Governor/Lieutenant Governor (joint tickets, open seat), Attorney General, Secretary of State, State Treasurer; Assembly seats (AD-52 at city hall; AD-3, 56 and others in parts of the city); odd-numbered State Senate seats only (SD-18 at city hall is not up; SD-1 and SD-19 touch the city); county offices; three statewide constitutional questions. No City of Appleton offices (Appleton elects in April)..
Holding office23
the sitting council
On the ballot6
1 sitting members running again
The official candidate list ↗ · What Appleton is like — the /local page
Congressional district (city hall): Wisconsin's 8th congressional district (city hall; Census-geocoder samples in the Outagamie and Calumet County parts of the city also fall in WI-8) — Tony Wied (Republican)
1
Mayor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jake Woodford Elected | Mayor | Independent | City of Appleton |
2
Alderperson
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adrian Stancil-Martin Elected | Alderperson | Independent | District 11 | City of Appleton |
| Alex Schultz Elected | Alderperson | Independent | District 9 | City of Appleton |
| Brad Firkus Elected | Alderperson | Independent | District 3 | City of Appleton |
| Christopher Croatt Elected | Alderperson | Independent | District 14 | City of Appleton |
| Denis Dougherty Elected | Alderperson | Independent | District 15 | City of Appleton |
| Denise Fenton Elected | Alderperson | Independent | District 6 | City of Appleton |
| Josh Lambrecht Elected | Alderperson | Independent | District 1 | City of Appleton |
| Katie Van Zeeland Elected | Alderperson | Independent | District 5 | City of Appleton |
| Martyn Smith Elected | Alderperson | Independent | District 4 | City of Appleton |
| Nate Wolff Elected | Alderperson | Independent | District 12 | City of Appleton |
| Patrick Hayden Elected | Alderperson | Independent | District 7 | City of Appleton |
| Patti Heffernan Elected | Alderperson | Independent | District 8 | City of Appleton |
| Sheri S Hartzheim Elected | Alderperson | Independent | District 13 | City of Appleton |
| Vaya Jones Elected | Alderperson | Independent | District 10 | City of Appleton |
| Vered Meltzer Elected | Alderperson | Independent | District 2 | City of Appleton |
3
Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tony Evers Elected | Governor | Democratic | Office of the Governor (evers.wi.gov) | |
| David Crowley | Governor Running | Democratic | Portage County Clerk | |
| Tom Tiffany | Governor Running | Republican | Portage County Clerk |
4
Lieutenant Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sara Rodriguez Elected | Lieutenant Governor | Democratic | Office of the Lieutenant Governor (evers.wi.gov/ltgov) | |
| David Varnam | Lieutenant Governor Running | Republican | Portage County Clerk | |
| Sarah Godlewski | Lieutenant Governor Running | Democratic | Portage County Clerk |
5
State Representative — AD-52
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lee Snodgrass ✉️ Elected | State Representative | Democratic | Wisconsin State Legislature |
6
State Senator — SD-18
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kristin Dassler-Alfheim ✉️ Elected | State Senator | Democratic | Wisconsin State Legislature |
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U.S. Senator
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ron Johnson Elected | U.S. Senator | Republican | @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json) | |
| Tammy Baldwin Elected | U.S. Senator | Democratic | @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json) |
8
U.S. Representative — WI-8
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tony Wied Elected | U.S. Representative → Running | Republican | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Rick Crosson | U.S. Representative Running | Democratic | Brown County Clerk |
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Notes on this record
How the lists were read, and what could not be.
- Municipal: Mayor from appletonwi.gov/government/mayor/index.php; fifteen Alderpersons from the Common Council page (/government/common_council.php), retrieved 2026-11-01. The page states: alderpersons "represent the 15 districts of the City and are elected to serve two-year terms"; "Non-partisan elections are held each April, with odd-numbered districts holding elections in odd-numbered years ... and even-numbered districts in even-numbered years"; the Mayor chairs the Council and votes only on a tie. No official emails printed; per-alder phone numbers printed on the page NOT copied. Campaign/blog sites and Facebook pages shown only where the city page links them (Facebook links not recorded). The City Attorney (Chris Behrens) is listed under 'Officials & Offices' but is not recorded as elected.
- Municipal election: the City Clerk's Elections page lists 2026 dates Spring Election April 7, Partisan Primary August 11, General Election November 3 — the November ballot carries no city offices. Next city election: the spring election of April 6, 2027 (odd-numbered aldermanic districts per the council page); the Mayor's term end was not read on an official page.
- Districts: city hall (100 N Appleton St; 44.2619,-88.4072) geocodes to CD-8, Senate District 18, Assembly District 52 (Census geocoder, 2026 state legislative layers). Spot checks: Calumet County part of the city (-88.37,44.235) CD-8/SD-1/AD-3; north side (-88.39,44.30) CD-8/SD-19/AD-56. So at least three Senate and three Assembly districts cover the city; only city hall's members are recorded. The Winnebago County slice of Appleton was not sampled.
- Federal: Tony Wied from house.gov/representatives (read 2026-11-01). Senators, Governor and Lt Governor rows carried over from the us-green-bay record (itself from us-madison). State legislators from the docs.legis.wisconsin.gov 2025 member lists (robots allows /2025/legislators); official @legis.wisconsin.gov emails only; Capitol phones not copied.
- Candidates: the Outagamie County Clerk publishes the Type B notice / sample ballots, but www.outagamie.gov answered Akamai 'Access Denied' (403) to robots.txt, so that host was not used further (its outagamie.prod.govaccess.org / outagamie.org mirrors were deliberately NOT used). WEC's elections.wi.gov served a Cloudflare 'Just a moment...' challenge; myvote.wi.gov's ballot lookup is an address form and was not used. Recorded instead: WI-8 Tony Wied (Republican) v Rick Crosson (Democratic) from the Brown County official sample ballot (district-wide contest; via us-green-bay), and the Governor/Lt Governor tickets Tiffany/Varnam (Republican) and Crowley/Godlewski (Democratic) from the Portage County official ballot read 2026-11-01. NOT captured: the AD-52 contest (and other Assembly contests in the city) — needs the Outagamie County sample ballot.
- Robots/terms: www.appletonwi.gov (robots.txt redirects to cms2.revize.com/revize/appletonwi/robots.txt, which is 404 — no rules); www.house.gov, docs.legis.wisconsin.gov (paths allowed); geocoding.geo.census.gov (robots 404); www.co.portage.wi.gov (CivicPlus robots; ClaudeBot group has path rules only, '*' Crawl-delay 10 kept). No photos linked; standsFor null for everyone.
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Sources
Prepared 2026-11-01. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.
- Portage County Clerk — Official Ballot, Partisan Office and Referendum, November 3, 2026 (statewide Governor/Lieutenant Governor contest, identical on every Wisconsin ballot) 4
- City of Appleton — Common Council ("Adrian Stancil-Martin, District 11"; district page /government/district_11.php) 1
- City of Appleton — Common Council ("Alex Schultz, District 9"; district page /government/district_9.php) 1
- City of Appleton — Common Council ("Brad Firkus, District 3"; district page /government/district_3.php) 1
- City of Appleton — Common Council ("Christopher Croatt, District 14"; district page /government/district_14.php) 1
- City of Appleton — Common Council ("Denis Dougherty, District 15"; district page /government/district_15.php) 1
- City of Appleton — Common Council ("Denise Fenton, District 6"; district page /government/district_6.php) 1
- City of Appleton — Office of the Mayor ("Mayor Jake Woodford") 1
- City of Appleton — Common Council ("Josh Lambrecht, District 1"; district page /government/district_1.php) 1
- City of Appleton — Common Council ("Katie Van Zeeland, District 5"; district page /government/district_5.php) 1
- Wisconsin State Legislature — 2025 Senate members ("Dassler-Alfheim, Kristin (D - Appleton) District 18") 1
- Wisconsin State Legislature — 2025 Assembly members ("Snodgrass, Lee (D - Appleton) District 52") 1
- City of Appleton — Common Council ("Martyn Smith, District 4"; district page /government/district_4.php) 1
- City of Appleton — Common Council ("Nate Wolff, District 12"; district page /government/district_12.php) 1
- City of Appleton — Common Council ("Patrick Hayden, District 7"; district page /government/district_7.php) 1
- City of Appleton — Common Council ("Patti Heffernan, District 8"; district page /government/district_8.php) 1
- @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json) — carried over from the us-madison record (via us-green-bay) 1
- Office of the Lieutenant Governor (evers.wi.gov/ltgov) — carried over from the us-madison record (via us-green-bay) 1
- City of Appleton — Common Council ("Sheri S Hartzheim, District 13"; district page /government/district_13.php) 1
- @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json) — carried over from the us-madison record (senate.gov returned HTTP 403 to the Milwaukee run) (via us-green-bay) 1
- Office of the Governor (evers.wi.gov) — carried over from the us-madison record (via us-green-bay) 1
- City of Appleton — Common Council ("Vaya Jones, District 10"; district page /government/district_10.php) 1
- City of Appleton — Common Council ("Vered Meltzer, District 2"; district page /government/district_2.php) 1
- U.S. House of Representatives — Directory of Representatives (Wisconsin 8th) 1
- Brown County Clerk — Official sample ballots, Partisan Office and Referendum, November 3, 2026 (WI-8 contest; carried over from the us-green-bay record — the WI-8 contest is district-wide and identical on Appleton ballots) 1