Rice Lake, 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: Barron 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 Rice Lake, 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
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Net domestic migration over time
−103 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −585 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Rice Lake, WI in Rice Lake, WI: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+47
2012
−202
2013
−243
2014
−259
2015
−30
2016
−132
2017
−73
2018
−14
2019
+69
2021
+115
2022
+168
2023
+172
2024
−100
2025
−103
Rice Lake anchors Barron County, a historically competitive slice of northwest Wisconsin where manufacturing employment and agricultural roots produce volatile presidential-year swings that regularly exceed statewide margins.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 30.4 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 75.2 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 3.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 29.0 points.
A population of 46,797, a 91% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $65,933 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Sparta, WI and Grand Rapids, MN.
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In 2024, Rice Lake, WI, Wisconsin voted Republican by 29.0 points (R+29.0), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 26,809 votes cast, 8,941 went Democratic and 16,726 went Republican.
When did Rice Lake, WI, Wisconsin last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Rice Lake, WI, Wisconsin voted Democratic was 2008.
How many people live in Rice Lake, WI, Wisconsin?
Rice Lake, WI, Wisconsin has a population of 46,797 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Rice Lake, WI, Wisconsin?
Median household income in Rice Lake, WI, Wisconsin is $65,933 — below the national median of $80,734. The Wisconsin state median is $77,485.
What is the political history of Rice Lake, WI, Wisconsin?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Rice Lake, WI, Wisconsin from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 9 went Democratic and 23 went Republican.
