Madison District 8 Alder and Council Vice President MGR Govindarajan announced Monday that he will not seek re-election in April 2026.
Govindarajan, a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate, won the campus-seat on the Madison common council during his junior year in 2023. He was reelected to a one-year term last April. He said his choice to not run for reelection is based on the belief that “public office should be a place for service, not permanence” in a statement.