Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI · how this place’s counties split between candidates 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 there is no roll-up above it. Each cell counts how many of this place’s counties a candidate led — a count of records, not a vote total. Who led the place as a whole is not knowable from these returns, because county rows carry a leader and a lead but no per-candidate votes.
Presidential nominating contests in Milwaukee-Waukesha, 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
−2,255 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −94,339 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI in Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−4,239
2012
−3,616
2013
−5,431
2014
−6,788
2015
−8,739
2016
−10,112
2017
−10,587
2018
−8,135
2019
−5,140
2021
−13,224
2022
−7,357
2023
−4,908
2024
−3,808
2025
−2,255
Milwaukee County's high-density wards regularly post some of the Midwest's largest Democratic vote shares, while Waukesha County anchors a suburban conservative belt that has consistently outpaced it in raw turnout—leaving statewide races to hinge on which side closes the gap.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 52.6 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 36.7 points in 1920. The 2024 margin was 9.4 points.
A population of 1,568,938, a 64% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $80,098 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN and Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI.
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How did Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI, Wisconsin vote in 2024?
In 2024, Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI, Wisconsin voted Democratic by 9.4 points (D+9.4), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 894,773 votes cast, 481,148 went Democratic and 396,898 went Republican.
When did Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI, Wisconsin last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI, Wisconsin voted Republican was 2004.
How many people live in Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI, Wisconsin?
Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI, Wisconsin has a population of 1,568,938 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI, Wisconsin?
Median household income in Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI, Wisconsin is $80,098 — below the national median of $80,734. The Wisconsin state median is $77,485.
What is the political history of Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI, Wisconsin?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI, Wisconsin from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 22 went Democratic and 11 went Republican.
