Editing Madison, Wisconsin (section)

==Government==
[[File:Old United States Post Office and Federal Courthouse, Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, Madison, WI (52745548548).jpg|thumb|[[Madison Municipal Building]]]]

City voters have supported the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] in national elections in the last half-century, and a liberal and progressive majority is generally elected to the city council. Detractors often refer to Madison as "77 square miles surrounded by reality", a phrase coined by former Wisconsin Republican governor [[Lee S. Dreyfus]], while campaigning in 1978.<ref name="moe">{{Cite book |last=Moe |first=Doug |title=Surrounded by Reality |publisher=Jones Books |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-9763539-3-5 |location=Madison, Wisconsin |page=xiii}}</ref> In 2013, there was a motion in the city council to turn Dreyfus' humor into the official city "punchline", but it was voted down by the city council.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Madison to stay real: City Council rejects Soglin's proposed slogan |url=http://www.ibmadison.com/In-Business-Madison/July-2013/Madison-to-stay-real-City-Council-rejects-Soglins-proposed-slogan/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140314191611/http://www.ibmadison.com/In-Business-Madison/July-2013/Madison-to-stay-real-City-Council-rejects-Soglins-proposed-slogan/ |archive-date=March 14, 2014 |access-date=July 24, 2013 |website=ibmadison.com}}</ref>

The city's voters are generally much more liberal than voters in the rest of Wisconsin. For example, 76% of Madison voters voted against a 2006 state [[Wisconsin Referendum 1|constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fair Wisconsin News Release |url=http://www.fairwisconsin.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191102212558/https://fairwisconsin.com/ |archive-date=November 2, 2019 |access-date=April 14, 2007}}</ref> even though the ban passed statewide with 59% of the vote.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Key Ballot Measures |work=Cnn.com |url=http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/ballot.measures/ |url-status=live |access-date=April 16, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130911003521/http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/ballot.measures/ |archive-date=September 11, 2013}}</ref>

In 1992, a local third party, [[Progressive Dane]], was founded. City policies supported in the Progressive Dane platform have included an [[inclusionary zoning]] ordinance, later abandoned by the mayor and a majority of the city council, and a city minimum wage. The party holds several seats on the Madison City Council and Dane County Board of Supervisors, and is aligned variously with the Democratic and Green parties.

Madison has a mayor-council system of government. Madison's [[Madison Common Council|city council]], known as the [[Madison Common Council|Common Council]], consists of 20 members, one from each district. The mayor [[Mayoral elections in Madison, Wisconsin|is elected in a citywide vote]].

Madison is the heart of {{ushr|WI|2}} in the [[United States House of Representatives]], represented by [[Mark Pocan]] (D). [[Melissa Agard]] (D) and [[Kelda Roys]] (D) represent Madison in the [[Wisconsin State Senate]], and [[Jimmy P. Anderson]] (D), [[Samba Baldeh]] (D), [[Francesca Hong]] (D), [[Shelia Stubbs|Sheila Stubbs]] (D), and [[Lisa Subeck]] (D) represent Madison in the [[Wisconsin State Assembly]].

[[Ron Johnson]] (R) and [[Tammy Baldwin]] (D) represent Madison, and all of Wisconsin, in the [[United States Senate]]. Baldwin is a Madison resident; she represented the 2nd from 1999 to 2013 before handing it to Pocan.

===Election results===
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Madison city vote<br /> by party in presidential elections
|-
! Year
! [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
! [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
! [[Third party (United States)|Third parties]]
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|[[2020 United States presidential election|2020]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dane County Elections |title=2020 General Election Results |url=https://elections.countyofdane.com/Election-Result/124#race0004 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210621034216/https://elections.countyofdane.com/Election-Result/124#race0004 |archive-date=June 21, 2021 |access-date=June 20, 2021}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''84.10%''' ''136,007''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|14.30% ''23,122''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|1.60% ''2,582''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|[[2016 United States presidential election|2016]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dane County Elections |title=2016 General Election Results |url=https://elections.countyofdane.com/Election-Result/89 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210621031227/https://elections.countyofdane.com/Election-Result/89 |archive-date=June 21, 2021 |access-date=June 20, 2021}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''78.41%''' ''120,178''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|15.04% ''23,052''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|6.55% ''10,037''
|}