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2024StatewideR+0.9

Boundary by 2024 margin · Precinct returns · VEST · MIT Election Lab

County72 areas · 2024 presidential vote

Menominee1,266296D+61.71,572 Dane273,99585,454D+51.5365,929 Milwaukee316,292138,022D+38.4464,107 Bayfield6,1074,860D+11.111,240 Eau Claire34,40027,728D+10.663,177 La Crosse39,00832,247D+9.472,261 Iowa7,7506,631D+7.614,677 Rock46,64240,218D+7.388,310 Douglas13,07311,732D+5.325,234 Ashland4,6124,191D+4.78,955 Door10,56510,099D+2.220,944 Portage21,50320,987D+1.243,258 Green10,90310,843D+0.322,076 Sauk18,17218,798R+1.737,584 Columbia16,38817,988R+4.634,914 Winnebago44,66049,179R+4.795,371 Racine49,72156,347R+6.2107,686 Kenosha41,82647,478R+6.290,680 Brown67,93779,132R+7.5149,333 Vernon7,5148,807R+7.816,609 Outagamie49,43860,827R+10.2111,932 Ozaukee27,87434,504R+10.463,472 Richland3,9855,207R+13.19,323 Crawford3,8605,113R+13.89,105 Dunn10,64314,726R+15.925,678 Sheboygan27,73538,763R+16.367,562 Jefferson20,57428,771R+16.350,146 Sawyer4,5996,422R+16.411,140 Pierce10,17114,417R+16.725,392 Oneida10,08014,455R+17.624,895 Grant10,96615,922R+18.127,306 Marathon31,52946,213R+18.678,826 St. Croix23,87035,537R+19.260,642 Jackson4,1576,204R+19.510,502 Waukesha108,478162,768R+19.7275,787 Wood16,59924,997R+19.942,216 Calumet12,92719,488R+19.932,916 Lafayette3,4695,256R+20.28,832 Trempealeau6,2199,661R+21.416,079 Walworth23,16136,603R+22.260,597 Chippewa14,57323,399R+22.938,471 Vilas6,1199,837R+23.016,135 Manitowoc17,39928,200R+23.346,316 Lincoln6,30610,633R+25.117,209 Adams4,4437,763R+25.812,882 Monroe8,47614,563R+26.023,369 Iron1,4872,557R+26.24,084 Washburn3,8676,962R+28.210,978 Fond du Lac20,49537,272R+28.758,527 Barron8,94116,726R+29.026,809 Pepin1,5232,798R+29.34,354 Marquette3,2526,041R+29.69,427 Buffalo2,7655,213R+30.28,100 Burnett3,6657,008R+30.910,810 Polk9,56718,296R+30.928,222 Price3,0055,763R+31.18,856 Juneau4,8549,525R+32.114,553 Dodge16,51833,067R+32.950,300 Waupaca9,94720,093R+33.430,403 Forest1,6813,382R+33.45,097 Kewaunee4,0598,267R+33.712,484 Langlade3,7467,782R+34.611,664 Waushara4,5719,625R+35.214,363 Washington28,50461,604R+36.291,407 Shawano7,33615,850R+36.223,500 Green Lake3,4497,458R+36.311,052 Marinette7,41516,670R+37.924,415 Rusk2,5165,660R+38.08,270 Clark4,50910,481R+38.915,340 Oconto6,96717,675R+43.024,912 Taylor2,8238,209R+48.111,186 Florence7832,356R+49.83,158

Wisconsin keeps producing the closest result in the country. Donald Trump carried it in 2024 by nine-tenths of a point (R+0.9) — 1,697,626 votes to 1,668,229, a margin of 29,397 out of 3.4 million cast. It was the third straight presidential race decided inside a single point: Trump by 0.8 in 2016 (R+0.8), Joe Biden by 0.6 in 2020 (D+0.6), then back to Trump in 2024, a swing of one and a half points across the two cycles. No other state has run three consecutive presidential margins this tight, and the same ground decides each one.

The arithmetic is two engines against the rest of the map. Dane County, which holds Madison and the flagship University of Wisconsin, voted Democratic by 51.5 points in 2024; Milwaukee County, the largest in the state, by 38.4 — together more than 590,000 Democratic votes. Against them stand the WOW suburbs arcing west and north of Milwaukee — Waukesha (R+19.7), Ozaukee (R+10.4), and Washington (R+36.2) — and the rural north, where Florence County ran R+49.8, the state's most Republican. The bluest is Menominee County, on its tribal land, at D+61.7. Every statewide race is the sum of these.

The suburbs and the lakeshore are moving in opposite directions. Waukesha and Ozaukee, the affluent Republican strongholds, have softened each cycle — Waukesha from R+34.5 in 2012 to R+19.7 in 2024, Ozaukee from R+30.3 to R+10.4 — while Kenosha County, on the Illinois line, went the other way, from Barack Obama by 12.2 points in 2012 to Trump by 6.2 in 2024, a working-class lakeshore county that flipped and kept drifting. The state underneath is heavily German in ancestry (35.8 percent), Catholic-rooted (21 percent, 14th of fifty), and almost exactly the national middle: 33.5 percent hold a bachelor's degree, 29th of fifty.

presidential margin

2004–2024 · Democratic minus Republican

2004D+0.4

2008D+13.9

2012D+6.9

2016R+0.8

2020D+0.6

2024R+0.9

full record · 1892 → 2024

presidential returns

2024 turnout 76.0% of 4,505,016 citizens 18+

Year	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	CVAP	Turnout
2024	1,668,229	1,697,626	57,063	3,422,918	4,505,016	76.0%
2020	1,630,866	1,610,184	56,991	3,298,041	4,392,490	75.1%
2016	1,382,536	1,405,284	188,330	2,976,150	4,313,304	69.0%
2012	1,620,985	1,407,966	39,483	3,068,434	4,215,824	72.8%
2008	1,676,761	1,262,393	43,813	2,982,967	4,155,117	71.8%
2004	1,489,504	1,478,120	29,383	2,997,007	4,094,410^†	73.2%

^† Citizen voting-age population estimated for prior cycles; 2004 predates the ACS and is extrapolated. Source: ACS 5-year, table B05003.

People and households

Who lives here

Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.

Race · ethnicity · ancestry

Communities and origins

German35.8%12.5%

Irish10.4%9.4%

Polish7.6%2.2%

English6.7%9.5%

Norwegian6.1%—

American3.4%5.3%

Italian2.7%4.8%

French2.2%1.6%

Mexican5.4%11.3%

Puerto Rican1.1%1.8%

African American†5.3%9.9%

African0.2%0.5%

Hmong1.0%—

Asian Indian0.6%1.4%

Chinese0.4%1.3%

Filipino0.2%0.9%

Hispanic or Latino counts residents of any race; the race groups count only their non-Hispanic residents, so the groups are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%. Expand a row to see ancestries reported within that group.

Age and life stage

Measure	Wisconsin	United States
Median age	40.5	39.1
Age 18–24	9.3%	9.2%
Age 65 and older	18.5%	17.2%

Household economy

Measure	Wisconsin	United States
Median household income	$77,485	$84,427
Poverty rate	10.6%	12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)	33.5%	35.6%

Languages at home

Measure	Wisconsin	United States
Speaks a non-English language at home	9.1%	22.3%
Spanish	5.0%	13.6%
Other Asian & Pacific Island	1.2%	1.1%

Religious landscape

Measure	Wisconsin	United States
Catholic	21.0%	18.6%
Evangelical Protestant	14.5%	16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted	52.0%	51.5%
Mainline Protestant	8.4%	5.2%

American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · presidential returns from MIT Election Lab through 2024 · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations.

current representation

Current officeholders

DTony EversGovernor

DSara RodriguezLieutenant Governor

DSarah GodlewskiSecretary of State

DJosh KaulAttorney General

RJohn LeiberState Treasurer

DTammy BaldwinU.S. Senate-0.49

RRon JohnsonU.S. Senate+0.65

U.S. House8 seats · D 2 · R 6

RWI-01Bryan Steil

DWI-02Mark Pocan

RWI-03Derrick Van Orden

DWI-04Gwen Moore

RWI-05Scott Fitzgerald

RWI-06Glenn Grothman

RWI-07Thomas Tiffany

RWI-08Tony Wied

Statewide officers curated as of 2026-06-27 (Ballotpedia / Wisconsin LRB State Officers); U.S. delegation from Voteview HSall_members.csv.

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