- Lead
- 6,626
- Total
- 107,686
- vs nation
- R+4.7
Racine-Mount Pleasant, WI
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Vote totals, margins, and source status
- Lead
- 4,320
- Total
- 106,451
- vs nation
- R+8.5
- Lead
- 4,040
- Total
- 94,302
- vs nation
- R+6.4
- Lead
- 3,661
- Total
- 103,364
- vs nation
- R+0.3
- Lead
- 7,454
- Total
- 100,642
- vs nation
- D+0.1
- Lead
- 4,227
- Total
- 101,569
- vs nation
- R+1.7
- Lead
- 2,451
- Total
- 88,865
- vs nation
- R+3.3
- Lead
- 8,460
- Total
- 77,568
- vs nation
- D+2.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+6.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 197,5322024 5-year
- Population density
- 594 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 333 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $78,0962024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 68.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 10.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 15.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+36.1 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+53.7 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Kenosha, WI · twin score 90.3
presidential history
Party record book
Racine-Mount Pleasant, WI · 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. Roosevelt1936
64.8%
24,474 votes · D+36.1
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 63.7%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
72.0%
14,406 votes · R+53.7
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1900 · 58.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
53,408votes
53.1% of the vote · D+7.4
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 53,008 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
56,347votes
52.3% of the vote · R+6.2
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 54,479 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
Michael Dukakis1988
+12.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+4.3 · U.S. R+7.7
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · +11.8 pts
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
+27.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+53.7 · U.S. R+26.2
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · +19.4 pts
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row shows U.S. House votes counted inside this Place. “Vote lead” is the local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+419 net domestic migration · 2025
Net −5,702 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
| Year | Net domestic migration |
|---|---|
| 2011 | −1,404 |
| 2012 | −1,130 |
| 2013 | −570 |
| 2014 | −657 |
| 2015 | −783 |
| 2016 | −495 |
| 2017 | +409 |
| 2018 | −110 |
| 2019 | −633 |
| 2021 | −1,221 |
| 2022 | −405 |
| 2023 | +264 |
| 2024 | +614 |
| 2025 | +419 |
Racine County sits at the volatile edge of Milwaukee's orbit, delivering narrow margins in statewide races and serving as a bellwether where blue-collar manufacturing heritage collides with fast-growing suburban precincts in Mount Pleasant.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 36.1 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 53.7 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 2.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 6.2 points.
A population of 197,532, a 69% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $78,096 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Kenosha, WI and Stevens Point-Plover, WI.
The metros whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
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