Other officials include sheriffs, district attorneys, clerks, treasurers, coroners, surveyors, registers of deeds, and clerks of circuit court these officers are elected for four-year terms. The type of executive official in each county varies: 11 counties have a County Executive elected in a nonpartisan election for a four-year term 20 counties have appointed County Administrators and 41 have appointed Administrative Coordinators. In May 2013, the Wisconsin Legislature passed a bill that will reduce the terms of office from four years to two years for the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors. Supervisors are elected in nonpartisan elections for two-year terms (except in Milwaukee County where the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors served four years). Ī Board of Supervisors is the main legislative entity of the county. Within each county are cities, villages and towns. Every county has a county seat, often a populous or centrally located city or village, where the government offices for the county are located. The county is the primary political subdivision of Wisconsin. Cities and villages can overlap county boundaries for example, the city of Whitewater is located in Walworth and Jefferson counties.Ĭounty Wisconsin counties (clickable map) Whether a municipality is a city, village or town is not strictly dependent on the community's population or area, but on the form of government selected by the residents and approved by the Wisconsin State Legislature. There are also a number of special-purpose districts formed to handle regional concerns, such as school districts. In Wisconsin, all of these are units of general-purpose local government.
The administrative divisions of Wisconsin include counties, cities, villages and towns.
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