- Lead
- 15,945
- Total
- 41,059
- vs nation
- D+40.3
Wisconsin 81st State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 15,173
- Total
- 39,226
- vs nation
- D+34.2
- Lead
- 11,216
- Total
- 33,773
- vs nation
- D+31.1
- Lead
- 9,345
- Total
- 33,624
- vs nation
- D+23.9
- Lead
- 9,815
- Total
- 31,114
- vs nation
- D+24.3
- Lead
- 4,909
- Total
- 30,979
- vs nation
- D+18.3
- Lead
- 3,137
- Total
- 26,438
- vs nation
- D+11.3
- Lead
- 2,195
- Total
- 21,683
- vs nation
- D+1.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+38.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 60,0402024 5-year
- Population density
- 260 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 231 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $103,8202024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 84.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+38.8 in 2024MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+72.3 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 80, WI · twin score 96.3
presidential history
Party record book
Wisconsin 81st 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
Kamala Harris2024
68.7%
28,196 votes · D+38.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 68.5%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
83.9%
3,274 votes · R+72.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 72.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
28,196votes
68.7% of the vote · D+38.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 26,859 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
12,906votes
41.7% of the vote · D+15.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 12,251 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
+40.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+38.8 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +34.2 pts
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
+46.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+72.3 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1900 · +30.4 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.
Anchored in rural west-central Wisconsin, Assembly District 81 backed the 2024 Republican presidential candidate by 26 points, a margin that has held consistently enough to make it among the least competitive districts in the state.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 38.8 points in 2024 and a Republican high of 72.3 points in 1920. The 2024 margin was 38.8 points.
A population of 60,040, a 85% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $103,820 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 80 and Assembly District 48.
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 81st State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/55081/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.