Wisconsin's 6th Assembly district

The 6th Assembly district of Wisconsin is one of 99 districts in the Wisconsin State Assembly.^[1] Located in northeast Wisconsin, the district comprises all of Menominee County, most of Shawano County, and parts of western Oconto County, northeast Waupaca County, and northwest Brown County, including the cities of Shawano, Clintonville, and Gillett, and the villages of Bonduel, Bowler, Cecil, Embarrass, and Pulaski. It also contains the Menominee Indian Reservation and the Stockbridge–Munsee Community.^[2] The district is represented by Republican Elijah Behnke, since January 2025; Behnke previously represented the 89th district from May 2021 to January 2025.^[3]

Wisconsin's 6th State Assembly district
From 2024 to 2031 From 2022 to 2023 From 2012 to 2021 2024 map defined in 2023 Wisc. Act 94 2022 map defined in Johnson v. Wisconsin Elections Commission 2011 map was defined in 2011 Wisc. Act 43
Assemblymember	Elijah Behnke R–Chase since January 6, 2025 (0 years)
Demographics	87.07% White 1.04% Black 2.65% Hispanic 1.92% Asian 7.2% Native American 0.09% Hawaiian/Pacific Islander
Population (2020)  • Voting age	59,076 44,923
Website	Official website
Notes	Northeast Wisconsin

The 6th Assembly district is located within Wisconsin's 2nd Senate district, along with the 4th and 5th Assembly districts.^[4]

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  Keshena, in the Menominee Indian Reservation
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  Downtown Clintonville
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  Shawano Lake

List of past representatives

List of representatives to the Wisconsin State Assembly from the 6th district

Member	Party	Residence	Counties represented	Term start	Term end	Ref.
District created
Gervase Hephner	Dem.	Chilton	Calumet, Fond du Lac, Sheboygan, Washington	January 1, 1973	January 3, 1983	[5]
Gus Menos	Dem.	Brown Deer	Milwaukee	January 3, 1983	January 7, 1985	[6]
Robert Cowles	Rep.	Green Bay	Brown	January 7, 1985	April 21, 1987	[7]
--Vacant--				April 21, 1987	June 16, 1987
James R. Charneski	Rep.	Allouez		June 16, 1987	January 3, 1989	[8]
Rosemary Hinkfuss	Dem.	Green Bay		January 3, 1989	January 4, 1993	[9]
John Ainsworth	Rep.	Waukechon	Oconto, Outagamie, Shawano	January 4, 1993	January 1, 2007	[10]
			Oconto, Outagamie, Shawano, Waupaca
Gary Tauchen	Rep.	Bonduel		January 1, 2007	January 2, 2023	[11]
			Brown, Outagamie, Shawano, Waupaca
Peter Schmidt	Rep.			January 3, 2023	January 6, 2025	[12]
Elijah Behnke	Rep.	Chase	Brown, Menominee, Oconto, Shawano, Waupaca	January 6, 2025	Current	[3]