- Lead
- 20,043
- Total
- 29,603
- vs nation
- D+69.2
Wisconsin 17th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 20,737
- Total
- 30,311
- vs nation
- D+64.0
- Lead
- 19,909
- Total
- 29,931
- vs nation
- D+64.4
- Lead
- 22,606
- Total
- 33,706
- vs nation
- D+63.2
- Lead
- 21,710
- Total
- 32,484
- vs nation
- D+59.6
- Lead
- 18,834
- Total
- 31,599
- vs nation
- D+62.1
- Lead
- 15,470
- Total
- 27,924
- vs nation
- D+54.9
- Lead
- 14,018
- Total
- 24,065
- vs nation
- D+49.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+67.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 59,4352024 5-year
- Population density
- 7,338 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 8.1 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $57,8942024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 25.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 60.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+77.7 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+7.8 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 18, WI · twin score 99.2
presidential history
Party record book
Wisconsin 17th 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
86.4%
18,667 votes · D+77.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 83.5%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
38.0%
2,587 votes · R+6.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · 35.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2012
28,006votes
83.1% of the vote · D+67.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 26,947 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
7,992votes
34.7% of the vote · D+30.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 7,686 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
Walter Mondale1984
+69.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+51.5 · U.S. R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +69.2 pts
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
−17.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+7.8 · U.S. R+25.2 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · −19.5 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%19,477 | 30.6%8,601 | 28,078 |
Wisconsin 17th State House District sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 77.7 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 7.8 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 67.7 points.
A population of 59,435, a 25% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $57,894 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 18 and Assembly District 11.
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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