Senate Minority Caucus Chair Jeff Smith (D-Town of Brunswick) announced that he will be running for re-election in the 31st Senate District.
“I feel a responsibility to continue to serve the 31st Senate district in the capacity that I have because I didn’t just get elected for one term and walk away from it,” he said. “We have a lot of work to do.”
Smith was elected to his first term as State Senator in 2018, in which he defeated his Republican opponent by a margin of 4,389 votes. He previously served in the Wisconsin State Assembly between 2007 and 2011. He was narrowly defeated by Warren Petryk (R-Town of Washington) in 2010 and again in 2012 and 2014. He was also a candidate for chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin (DPW) in 2015.
