Madison: 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 for WI-2 (no U.S. Senate seat in 2026); Governor and Lieutenant Governor (joint ticket, open seat), Attorney General, Secretary of State, State Treasurer; Wisconsin Senate District 27 (the only odd-numbered, on-ballot Senate seat touching Madison); Assembly Districts 42, 46, 48, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80 and 81 (each covering some Madison wards); Dane County Sheriff and Clerk of Circuit Court; three statewide constitutional referendum questions. No City of Madison offices..
Holding office29
the sitting council
On the ballot7
2 sitting members running again
The official candidate list ↗ · What Madison is like — the /local page
Congressional district (city hall): Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district (city hall, and the whole city: all of Dane County is WI-2) — Mark Pocan (Democratic)
1
Mayor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Satya Rhodes-Conway Elected | Mayor | Independent | City of Madison |
2
Alder
3
Municipal Judge
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel P. Koval ✉️ Elected | Municipal Judge | Independent | city-wide | City of Madison |
4
Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tony Evers Elected | Governor | Democratic | Office of the Governor (evers.wi.gov) | |
| David Crowley | Governor Running | Democratic | Dane County Clerk | |
| Tom Tiffany | Governor Running | Republican | Dane County Clerk |
5
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 | Dane County Clerk | |
| Sarah Godlewski | Lieutenant Governor Running | Democratic | Dane County Clerk |
6
State Representative — AD-76
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Francesca Hong ✉️ Elected | State Representative | Democratic | Wisconsin State Legislature | |
| Dina Nina Martinez-Rutherford ✉️ Elected | Alder → Running for State Representative | Independent | AD-76 | City of Madison Common Council |
| Nina Chat | State Representative Running | Republican | Dane County Clerk |
7
State Senator — SD-26
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kelda Roys ✉️ 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) |
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U.S. Representative — WI-2
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Pocan Elected acclaimed | U.S. Representative → Running | Democratic | U.S. House of Representatives |
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Notes on this record
How the lists were read, and what could not be.
- Municipal: Mayor from cityofmadison.com/mayor/about; all 20 alders from the Common Council 'Council Members' list (cityofmadison.com/council/council-members) and each alder's own page (/council/districtN), which gives the alder service dates and the official districtN@cityofmadison.com address; retrieved 2026-10-22. Alder phone numbers on those pages were not copied. Municipal Judge Daniel P. Koval from the Municipal Court page (Wisconsin municipal judges are elected; the page gives no term). Madison municipal offices are non-partisan.
- Alder terms as printed are staggered: every odd-numbered district ends April 20, 2027 and every even-numbered district April 18, 2028, while the Run for Council page still says 'Alders serve for 2 years'. District 1 (Nzegwu) began 2026-09-08 and District 19 (Guequierre) 2024-01-23 — mid-term starts. Recorded as printed.
- Next City of Madison election: the spring election of April 6, 2027 (spring primary February 16, 2027 if needed) — 'City of Madison Mayor and Alder positions for odd numbered districts will be on the ballot' (City Clerk, Running for Local Office; nomination papers due January 5, 2027). The City Clerk's schedule also shows the 2026 spring election held April 7, 2026. No City of Madison offices are on the 2026-11-03 ballot.
- City hall (City-County Building) geocodes in the Census geocoder to WI-2, State Senate District 26 and Assembly District 76 (2026 state legislative layers); the coordinate link is in ridings.source. From the Dane County ward lists, Madison wards fall in 9 Assembly districts (42, 46, 48, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81) and therefore 4 Senate districts (14, 16, 26, 27); only city hall's members are recorded as people.
- Federal: Representative Mark Pocan from house.gov/representatives (Wisconsin table). Senators Tammy Baldwin and Ron Johnson from the CC0 @unitedstates legislators-current.json (senate.gov answered HTTP 403 to the Milwaukee run the same day; not retried). No federal photos linked.
- State: Governor from evers.wi.gov; Lieutenant Governor Sara Rodriguez from evers.wi.gov/ltgov (photo linked). SD-26 (Kelda Roys) and AD-76 (Francesca Hong) from docs.legis.wisconsin.gov 2025 member lists (robots allows /2025/legislators). Official legislative emails only; Capitol office phones not copied.
- Candidates: the Wisconsin Elections Commission (elections.wi.gov) served robots.txt (crawling of /candidates allowed) but the candidates page returned a Cloudflare 'Just a moment...' challenge (HTTP 403) — one request, not retried, not bypassed. Candidates were read from the Dane County Clerk's official 'What's on the Ballot (Dane County) – November 3, 2026', which says it lists candidates 'certified to be on the November 5th General Election ballot' — '5th' is a misprint for November 3. Its Governor line prints 'Tom Tiffay' — recorded as Tom Tiffany. Party codes as printed (REP, DEM) in ballotParty.
- Recorded as candidates, per the brief: WI-2 (Mark Pocan, DEM — the only candidate printed, so unopposed), Governor/Lieutenant Governor tickets (Tiffany/Varnam REP; Crowley/Godlewski DEM), and AD-76, city hall's open Assembly seat (Nina Chat REP; Dina Nina Martinez-Rutherford DEM — the sitting District 15 alder, recorded as incumbent-running on her alder row with runningFor/runningSeat). SD-26 is not on the 2026 ballot. Not recorded as people: Attorney General, Secretary of State and State Treasurer contests; SD-27 and the eight other Madison-touching Assembly races (incumbents Diane Hesselbein SD-27, Shelia Stubbs AD-78, Lisa Subeck AD-79, Mike Bare AD-80, Alex Joers AD-81 and Maureen McCarville AD-42 appear on that list); Dane County Sheriff Kalvin D. Barrett and Clerk of Circuit Court Jeff Okazaki (both unopposed).
- Robots/terms: elections.countyofdane.com (Disallow /Account only), cityofmadison.com (allows these pages; Conditions & Use: data generally free to copy, but logos and site images may not be copied without permission — photos are linked only), docs.legis.wisconsin.gov (allows), house.gov (allows), geocoding.geo.census.gov (no robots.txt, 404), evers.wi.gov (no robots.txt, 404), unitedstates.github.io (no robots.txt; CC0). Blocked: elections.wi.gov/candidates (Cloudflare 403).
- No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded; city hall's street address is not in any person row (coordinates used for the geocoder link). standsFor left null for everyone.
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Sources
Prepared 2026-10-22. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.
- City of Madison Common Council — alder page (and Council Members list) 20
- Dane County Clerk — What's on the Ballot (Dane County), November 3, 2026 (WEC-certified candidates) 5
- @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json) — senate.gov returned HTTP 403 to the Milwaukee run; not retried 2
- City of Madison — Municipal Court 1
- Wisconsin State Legislature — 2025 Assembly members 1
- Wisconsin State Legislature — 2025 Senate members 1
- Office of the Lieutenant Governor (evers.wi.gov/ltgov) 1
- City of Madison — Mayor's Office 1
- Office of the Governor (evers.wi.gov) 1
- U.S. House of Representatives — Directory of Representatives (Wisconsin); candidacy: Dane County Clerk — What's on the Ballot (Dane County), November 3, 2026 (WEC-certified candidates) 1