Wisconsin Congressional Map Challenge Rejected by State Court

A group of Wisconsin executives unsuccessfully challenged the state’s eight-district congressional map for allegedly perpetrating unconstitutional gerrymandering, a state court ruled Tuesday.

The group’s suit raises a political question that requires dismissal until the Wisconsin Supreme Court says otherwise, a three-judge panel for the Wisconsin circuit court said in an order.

The current congressional map sends six Republicans and two Democrats to Washington.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court found in 2022 that the electoral districts’ political composition is nonjusticiable, and state constitutional provisions at issue in this case don’t say anything about redistricting, the circuit court said.

Wisconsin Business Leaders for Democracy alleged that the map the Supreme Court implemented in 2022 is an anticompetitive gerrymander that violates the Wisconsin Constitution.

The map protects Wisconsin’s congressional lawmakers from electoral competition, according to the group.

The court said Wisconsin has seen highly noncompetitive elections. In 2022 and 2024, it said, the median margin of victory in each of the 16 races “approached thirty percentage points,” the opinion said.

But the “novel” anticompetitive gerrymandering claims raise political questions delegated to the legislative branch, and are beyond the state court’s reach, the opinion said.

The state constitution “contains no grant of authority” to determine if maps are competitive” between the two major political parties, the court said. The only court with the authority to change this outcome is the state’s supreme court, it said.

Judges David Conway, Michael Moran, and Patricia Baker joined in the decision.

The case is Wis. Bus. Leaders for Democracy v. Wis. Elections Comm’n, Wis. Cir. Ct., No. 2025-cv-2252, 4/28/26.