Baraboo, WI · which candidate this place backed in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain, and this place is a single county: Sauk County, Wisconsin. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Baraboo, WI, by party and cycle.
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−21 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +585 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Baraboo, WI in Baraboo, WI: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−29
2012
−101
2013
+192
2014
−2
2015
+42
2016
+168
2017
+199
2018
+132
2019
−14
2021
−91
2022
+55
2023
−4
2024
+59
2025
−21
Baraboo anchors a small metro straddling the Wisconsin Dells tourism corridor and agricultural hinterland, producing a electorate that has swung notably in statewide races over the past two decades.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 21.9 points in 2008 and a Republican high of 74.9 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 3.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 1.7 points.
A population of 66,009, a 86% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $79,541 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Janesville-Beloit, WI and La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN.
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In 2024, Baraboo, WI, Wisconsin voted Republican by 1.7 points (R+1.7), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 37,584 votes cast, 18,172 went Democratic and 18,798 went Republican.
When did Baraboo, WI, Wisconsin last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Baraboo, WI, Wisconsin voted Democratic was 2020.
How many people live in Baraboo, WI, Wisconsin?
Baraboo, WI, Wisconsin has a population of 66,009 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Baraboo, WI, Wisconsin?
Median household income in Baraboo, WI, Wisconsin is $79,541 — below the national median of $80,734. The Wisconsin state median is $77,485.
What is the political history of Baraboo, WI, Wisconsin?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Baraboo, WI, Wisconsin from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 11 went Democratic and 22 went Republican.
