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The 2024 Wyoming House of Representatives election saw victories in primaries for hard-right Republican members of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus, increasing their seat share from twenty-eight to thirty-four, a simple majority in the sixty-two seat chamber, in what was the first takeover of any legislature by a state Freedom Caucus.
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Laura Taliaferro Pearson is an American politician who is member-elect of the Wyoming Senate from the 14th district. [1] In 2024, she defeated the Speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives, Albert Sommers, in the Republican primary in an upset. Before entering politics, she was a rancher and bus driver. [2]
During its territorial era, the Wyoming Legislature played a crucial role in the Suffragette Movement in the United States.In 1869, only four years following the American Civil War, and another 35 years before women's suffrage became a highly visible political issue in both the U.S., Britain, and elsewhere, the Wyoming Legislature granted all women above the age of 21 the right to vote.
The Wyoming House of Representatives is the lower house of the Wyoming State Legislature. There are 62 Representatives in the House, representing an equal number of single-member constituent districts across the state , each with a population of at least 9,000.
Wyoming's 8th State Senate district is one of 31 districts in the Wyoming Senate. The district encompasses part of Laramie County. [2] It is represented by Republican Senator Jared Olsen of Cheyenne. [2] [3] In 1992, the state of Wyoming switched from electing state legislators by county to a district-based system. [4]
Larry Hicks (born 1958) is an American politician who is a Republican member of the Wyoming Senate, representing the 11th district [1] since 2011. The 11th district includes Albany and Carbon Counties. In 2025, he sponsored a bill to implement a five-year moratorium on wind and solar energy projects in the state of Wyoming. [2]
Steve Johnson is an American politician who is member-elect of the Wyoming House of Representatives from the 8th district. He defeated incumbent Republican David Zwonitzer in a tight primary in 2024. [1] A Republican from Cheyenne, he aligns himself with the Wyoming Freedom Caucus, a further-right faction of the Wyoming GOP. [2]