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Wisconsin's 80th Assembly district

assembly District of Wisconsin

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ105580784 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 80th Assembly district of Wisconsin is one of 99 districts in the Wisconsin State Assembly. Located in south-central Wisconsin, the district comprises areas of central Dane County, including neighborhoods of the far west side of the city of Madison—west of the Beltline—along with the city of Verona and the village of Cross Plains. The district is represented by Democrat Mike Bare, since January 2023.

The 80th Assembly district is located within Wisconsin's 27th Senate district, along with the 79th and 81st Assembly districts.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Wisconsin's 80th Assembly district” as assembly District of Wisconsin. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Wisconsin's, 80th and Assembly can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as assembly District of Wisconsin. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q105580784. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2023.

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This entry incorporates text from “Wisconsin's 80th Assembly district” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.