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| Chamber: | Assembly |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| District: | 16 |
| Representative: | Kalan Haywood |
| Residence: | Milwaukee |
| Party: | Democratic |
| Incumbentsince: | January 7, 2019 (years) |
| Population: | 59,714 |
| Population Year: | 2020 |
| Voting Age: | 45,615 |
| Percent White: | 32.03 |
| Percent Black: | 54.13 |
| Percent Hispanic: | 7.08 |
| Percent Asian: | 6.25 |
| Percent Native American: | 1.66 |
| Percent Pacific Islander: | 0.16 |
| Website: | Official website |
| Notes: | Downtown Milwaukee |
The 16th Assembly District of Wisconsin is one of 99 districts in the Wisconsin State Assembly.[1] Located in southeast Wisconsin, the district is entirely contained within the boundaries of the city of Milwaukee in central Milwaukee County. It comprises much of downtown Milwaukee, including the campus of Marquette University, Milwaukee Rescue Mission, Fiserv Forum, the Milwaukee Public Museum, and the Marquette Interchange.[2] The district is represented by Democrat Kalan Haywood, since January 2019.[3]
The 16th Assembly district is located within Wisconsin's 6th Senate district, along with the 17th and 18th Assembly districts.[4]
The district was created in the 1972 redistricting act (1971 Wisc. Act 304) which first established the numbered district system, replacing the previous system which allocated districts to specific counties.[5] The 16th district was drawn somewhat in line with the previous Milwaukee County 2nd district, with some of the southwest wards exchanged for more in the southeast and northeast.[6]
With the exception of the 1982 court-ordered redistricting plan, which moved the district to cover West Allis,[7] in the western part of the county, the district has otherwise remained in north-central Milwaukee County within the boundaries of the city of Milwaukee. The current 16th Assembly district is only slightly south of the original boundaries of the district, and contains several of the same neighborhoods.
The 16th district has been represented by two of the youngest members of the Assembly in Wisconsin history, Michael Elconin, who entered office in 1973 at age 19, and current representative Kalan Haywood, who was also only 19 when sworn in in 2019.
| District created | ||||||||
| Michael Elconin | Dem. | Milwaukee | Milwaukee | January 1, 1973 | [8] | |||
| --Vacant-- | January 24, 1978 | [9] | ||||||
| Dem. | Milwaukee | January 24, 1978 | November 1, 1981 | [10] | ||||
| --Vacant-- | November 1, 1981 | January 15, 1982 | ||||||
| Dem. | Milwaukee | January 15, 1982 | January 3, 1983 | |||||
| Jeannette Bell | Dem. | West Allis | January 3, 1983 | January 7, 1985 | [11] | |||
| Dem. | Milwaukee | January 7, 1985 | January 4, 1993 | [12] | ||||
| Leon Young | Dem. | Milwaukee | January 4, 1993 | January 7, 2019 | [13] | |||
| Kalan Haywood | Dem. | Milwaukee | January 7, 2019 | Current | ||||