- Lead
- 105
- Total
- 34,907
- vs nation
- D+1.8
Wisconsin 88th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 207
- Total
- 33,842
- vs nation
- R+5.1
- Lead
- 1,973
- Total
- 31,183
- vs nation
- R+8.4
- Lead
- 933
- Total
- 31,199
- vs nation
- R+0.9
- Lead
- 4,182
- Total
- 30,392
- vs nation
- D+6.5
- Lead
- 1,546
- Total
- 29,804
- vs nation
- R+2.7
- Lead
- 107
- Total
- 26,125
- vs nation
- R+0.9
- Lead
- 1,965
- Total
- 22,145
- vs nation
- D+0.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+0.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 59,8552024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,453 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 41.2 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $84,1702024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 81.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+49.7 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+36.7 in 1956MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 89, WI · twin score 86.3
presidential history
Party record book
Wisconsin 88th 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
73.8%
5,067 votes · D+49.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 70.5%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
68.0%
7,585 votes · R+36.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 65.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
17,264votes
49.5% of the vote · D+0.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 17,087 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
17,159votes
49.2% of the vote · D+0.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 16,704 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
Al Smith1928
+49.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+31.6 · U.S. R+17.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · +31.9 pts
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
+21.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+36.7 · U.S. R+15.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · +20.8 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 88 sits within Wisconsin's legislative map as a modestly Republican-leaning constituency, reflecting the rural and small-town demographic patterns common to districts outside the state's major metropolitan corridors.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 49.7 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 36.7 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.9 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 0.3 points.
A population of 59,855, a 82% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $84,170 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 89 and Assembly District 52.
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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