- Lead
- 2,718
- Total
- 33,714
- vs nation
- R+6.6
Wisconsin 82nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,590
- Total
- 32,836
- vs nation
- R+12.3
- Lead
- 3,679
- Total
- 29,941
- vs nation
- R+14.4
- Lead
- 5,991
- Total
- 30,055
- vs nation
- R+23.8
- Lead
- 3,013
- Total
- 29,094
- vs nation
- R+17.6
- Lead
- 5,888
- Total
- 28,252
- vs nation
- R+18.4
- Lead
- 4,925
- Total
- 25,156
- vs nation
- R+20.1
- Lead
- 1,399
- Total
- 21,216
- vs nation
- R+15.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+8.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 58,9812024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,006 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 29.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $87,2872024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 76.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 13.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+37.8 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+33.5 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 22, WI · twin score 91.6
presidential history
Party record book
Wisconsin 82nd 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. Roosevelt1932
67.0%
2,050 votes · D+37.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 65.7%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
63.3%
928 votes · R+33.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 61.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
15,213votes
45.1% of the vote · R+8.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 14,773 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
17,931votes
53.2% of the vote · R+8.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · 17,830 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
+19.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+37.4 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · +18.2 pts
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
+23.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+19.9 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2000 · +20.1 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.
The 2024 presidential margin was R+8.1, one of the narrower results among Wisconsin's state house districts, compared with R+10.4 in 2008. About 21,100 residents lived here, with White alone at 86.7% in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 37.8 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 33.5 points in 1920. The 2024 margin was 8.1 points.
A population of 58,981, a 77% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $87,287 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 22 and Assembly District 24.
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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