Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district

Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district covers most of the Driftless Area in southwestern and western Wisconsin. The district includes the cities of Eau Claire, La Crosse, and Stevens Point, as well as many Wisconsin-based exurbs of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. It borders the states of Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois. Republican Derrick Van Orden has represented the district since 2023.

The political nature of the district is moderate, given its combination of an overall rural and suburban character counterbalanced by two significant urban centers (Eau Claire and La Crosse) and the Twin Cities suburbs. It historically elected moderate Republicans; before Ron Kind's 1996 victory, only two Democrats represented it in the 20th century. Al Gore, John Kerry, and Barack Obama all carried the district at the presidential level; it then narrowly voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and again in 2020 with slightly increased margins, as a result, the Cook Partisan Voting Index adjusted the district's partisan lean in 2021 from "even" to R+4.

Counties and municipalities within the district
Adams County
 * Adams, Arkdale, Dellwood, Friendship, Grand Marsh, Lake Arrowhead, Lake Camelot, Lake Sherwood, and Wisconsin Dells (Adams County section).

Buffalo County
 * Alma, Buffalo City, Cochrane, Fountain City, Mondovi, and Nelson.

Chippewa County
 * Chippewa Falls and Lake Hallie.

Crawford County
 * Bell Center, Eastman, Ferryville, Gays Mills, Lynxville, Mount Sterling, Prairie du Chien, Soldiers Grove, Steuben, and Wauzeka.

Dunn County
 * Boyceville, Colfax, Downing, Elk Mound, Knapp, Menomonie, Ridgeland, and Wheeler.

Eau Claire County
 * Altoona, Augusta, Eau Claire, Fairchild, and Fall Creek.

Grant County
 * Bagley, Boscobel, Bloomington, Blue River, Cassville, Cuba City, Dickeyville, Fennimore, Hazel Green, Lancaster, Livingston, Montfort, Muscoda, Platteville, Potosi, and Tennyson.

Jackson County
 * Alma Center, Black River Falls, Hixton, Melrose, and Taylor.

Juneau County
 * Camp Douglas, Elroy, Hustler, Lyndon Station, Mauston, Union Center, and Wonewoc.

La Crosse County
 * Bangor, Campbell, La Crosse, Holmen, Rockland, Onalaska, and West Salem.

Monroe County
 * Cashton, Kendall, Melvina, Norwalk, Oakdale, Sparta, Tomah, and Wilton.

Pepin County
 * Durand, Pepin, and Stockholm.

Pierce County
 * Bay City, Ellsworth, Maiden Rock, Plum City, Prescott, River Falls (Pierce County side), Spring Valley (Pierce County side).

Portage County
 * Almond, Amherst, Amherst Junction, Junction City, Nelsonville, Park Ridge, Plover, and Whiting.

Richland County
 * Boaz, Cazenovia, Lone Rock, Richland Center, Viola, and Yuba.

Trempealeau County
 * Arcadia, Blair, Eleva, Ettrick, Galesville, Independence, Pigeon Falls, Osseo, Strum, Trempealeau, and Whitehall.

Vernon County
 * Chaseburg, Coon Valley, De Soto, Genoa, Hillsboro, La Farge, Ontario, Readstown, Stoddard, Viroqua, and Westby.

Wood County
 * Biron, Milladore, Nekoosa, Port Edwards, Rudolph, and Vesper.