STATE SENATOR DISTRICT 23
State Senate District 23; Wisconsin
My vote power
High
Election date
November 3, 2026 · General election
How do we calculate my vote power?
What goes into the rating: Representation: how much weight one vote carries here compared with a statewide vote — the smaller the district, the more each vote counts. Decisiveness: how likely this race is to be close, based on past results or current analyst ratings, plus the number of candidates.
Representation: High · 66 out of 100
This district is a small slice of its state, so each vote here carries much more weight than a vote in a statewide race. About 180,709 people live here.
Show the representation math
score = 50 + 50 × ln(state population ÷ this district's) ÷ ln(50,000) = 50 + 50 × ln(5,914,872 ÷ 180,709) ÷ ln(50,000) = 66.12, measured against a statewide vote in WI (grades: 66+ high, 55+ above average, 33+ average, otherwise low; a statewide race is the 50 baseline)
Decisiveness: Unknown
No analyst ratings or past results for this contest yet.
High representation → My vote power: High.
Some data is missing, so this rating is based on partial information and capped at "High".
About this office
- Voting on how much you pay in state taxes
- Voting on how much money your local public schools get
- Voting on which roads and highways get built or repaired
Affects: AI Regulation, Healthcare Affordability, Environment and Public Health,
Candidates
Democratic · declared
Foster is a retired social worker who has run a sheep farm in Dunn County since the early 1990s and helped start a farm cooperative. He backs more state money for public schools, lower property taxes and stronger rural health care.
Republican · declared
Quinn is a full-time state legislator from northwest Wisconsin. He served on the Rice Lake City Council, was mayor of Rice Lake, and spent eight years in the state Assembly before moving to the state Senate.
Records: Public Safety and Crime Control 13 for, 1 against, Civil Rights 6 against, Public Education Quality 5 for, 1 against,
Sources: elections.wi.gov23