Green Bay-Appleton · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
65.8%
140,461 votes · D+33.7
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 60.6%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
73.1%
100,809 votes · R+55.6
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 70.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
302,399votes
52.8% of the vote · D+7.1
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 277,301 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
388,778votes
57.9% of the vote · R+17.3
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 371,093 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
+15.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+33.7 · U.S. D+17.8
Runner-up · Al Smith, 1928 · +14.0 pts
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
+30.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+41.6 · U.S. R+10.8
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · +29.4 pts
U.S. House elections · 3 House
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U.S. House
On a multi-state Place, each row sums votes cast in the separate U.S. House races held inside the Place that year. It is a geographic vote total, not one contest or a seat tally.
Some U.S. House rows cover a contest held in only part of this Place — the votes are real, but the total is not place-wide because the rest of the Place had no such race that year.
Green Bay-Appleton · 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 Green Bay-Appleton, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Obama13Clinton3192,179 votes · 16 of 16 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Sanders15Clinton1167,165 votes · 16 of 16 countiesprimary
Biden16147,177 votes · 16 of 16 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Republicannot ingested
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○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
+3,319 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +10,473 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Green Bay-Appleton in Green Bay-Appleton: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−344
2012
−1,367
2013
−781
2014
−1,420
2015
−1,986
2016
−1,108
2017
+1,653
2018
+1,536
2019
+1,245
2021
+658
2022
+2,705
2023
+3,168
2024
+3,195
2025
+3,319
Anchored by Brown and Outagamie counties, this northeast Wisconsin market blends a Catholic, union-influenced Green Bay base with Appleton's white-collar Fox Cities suburbs, producing some of the state's most closely watched county-level margins in federal races.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 33.7 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 55.6 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 0.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 17.3 points.
A population of 1,170,954, a 85% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $76,517 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Wausau-Rhinelander and La Crosse-Eau Claire.
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How did Green Bay-Appleton, Wisconsin vote in 2024?
In 2024, Green Bay-Appleton, Wisconsin voted Republican by 17.3 points (R+17.3), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 671,100 votes cast, 272,687 went Democratic and 388,778 went Republican.
When did Green Bay-Appleton, Wisconsin last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Green Bay-Appleton, Wisconsin voted Democratic was 2008.
How many people live in Green Bay-Appleton, Wisconsin?
Green Bay-Appleton, Wisconsin has a population of 1,170,954 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Green Bay-Appleton, Wisconsin?
Median household income in Green Bay-Appleton, Wisconsin is $76,517 — below the national median of $80,734. The Wisconsin state median is $77,485.
What is the political history of Green Bay-Appleton, Wisconsin?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Green Bay-Appleton, Wisconsin from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 7 went Democratic and 26 went Republican.
