- Lead
- 4,209
- Total
- 28,988
- vs nation
- D+16.0
Wisconsin 7th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,825
- Total
- 28,316
- vs nation
- D+12.6
- Lead
- 3,143
- Total
- 26,934
- vs nation
- D+9.6
- Lead
- 2,767
- Total
- 30,168
- vs nation
- D+5.3
- Lead
- 2,585
- Total
- 29,130
- vs nation
- D+1.6
- Lead
- 1,216
- Total
- 30,543
- vs nation
- R+1.5
- Lead
- 1,887
- Total
- 27,784
- vs nation
- R+7.3
- Lead
- 234
- Total
- 23,401
- vs nation
- R+7.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+14.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 59,1002024 5-year
- Population density
- 5,373 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 11 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $69,8932024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 59.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 6.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 24.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+35.1 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+48.4 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 20, WI · twin score 87.8
presidential history
Party record book
Wisconsin 7th State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 38 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
63.3%
10,817 votes · D+35.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 57.7%
Republican
James A. Garfield1880
69.5%
1,267 votes · R+39.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · 69.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
16,338votes
57.7% of the vote · D+17.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 16,265 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
19,766votes
69.1% of the vote · R+38.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 19,093 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
Kamala Harris2024
+16.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+14.5 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +12.6 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+34.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+40.9 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1900 · +29.8 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | D | 69.4%19,367 | 30.6%8,553 | 27,920 |
Assembly District 7 sits within the Madison metro, where dense university-adjacent neighborhoods and a highly educated electorate have produced consistent double-digit Democratic margins in recent presidential cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 35.1 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 48.4 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 14.5 points.
A population of 59,100, a 59% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $69,893 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 20 and Assembly District 14.
The state-house districts 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.
District research tools
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