- Lead
- 2,076
- Total
- 29,553
- vs nation
- D+8.5
Wisconsin 65th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,770
- Total
- 29,965
- vs nation
- D+4.8
- Lead
- 3,005
- Total
- 26,393
- vs nation
- D+9.3
- Lead
- 6,901
- Total
- 28,506
- vs nation
- D+20.4
- Lead
- 8,237
- Total
- 27,876
- vs nation
- D+22.3
- Lead
- 4,806
- Total
- 26,692
- vs nation
- D+20.5
- Lead
- 3,845
- Total
- 22,234
- vs nation
- D+16.8
- Lead
- 5,307
- Total
- 19,093
- vs nation
- D+19.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+7.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 59,9752024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,897 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 20.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $76,6242024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 66.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 9.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 17.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+49.6 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+54.4 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 64, WI · twin score 94.7
presidential history
Party record book
Wisconsin 65th 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
72.5%
11,840 votes · D+45.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 71.7%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
72.0%
2,978 votes · R+54.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 53.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
17,807votes
63.9% of the vote · D+29.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 17,488 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
13,536votes
45.8% of the vote · D+7.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 13,336 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
+36.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+17.8 · U.S. R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Michael Dukakis, 1988 · +35.7 pts
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
+28.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+54.4 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · +14.8 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.
Assembly District 65 covers a largely rural stretch of western Wisconsin where Republican presidential margins have widened steadily, reflecting broader shifts among non-college white voters in small-town and agricultural communities.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 49.6 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 54.4 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 7.0 points.
A population of 59,975, a 67% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $76,624 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 64 and Assembly District 66.
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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Wisconsin 65th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/55065/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.