- Lead
- 29,716
- Total
- 105,023
- vs nation
- D+29.8
Wisconsin 7th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 28,847
- Total
- 101,512
- vs nation
- D+24.0
- Lead
- 21,490
- Total
- 94,002
- vs nation
- D+20.8
- Lead
- 22,101
- Total
- 104,088
- vs nation
- D+17.4
- Lead
- 21,180
- Total
- 100,485
- vs nation
- D+13.8
- Lead
- 8,925
- Total
- 104,032
- vs nation
- D+11.0
- Lead
- 4,890
- Total
- 94,486
- vs nation
- D+4.7
- Lead
- 9,751
- Total
- 81,143
- vs nation
- D+3.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+28.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 177,8602024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,099 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 57.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $75,5052024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 75.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 4.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 11.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+44.6 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+40.6 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 6, IL · twin score 83.9
presidential history
Party record book
Wisconsin 7th State Senate 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
68.0%
41,619 votes · D+44.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 63.3%
Republican
James A. Garfield1880
64.4%
3,740 votes · R+29.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 63.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
66,143votes
63.0% of the vote · D+28.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 64,242 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
59,000votes
63.4% of the vote · R+27.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 57,025 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
+29.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+28.3 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +24.0 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+23.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+29.4 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1900 · +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.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | D | 69.4%58,286 | 30.6%25,740 | 84,026 |
Wisconsin Senate District 7 anchors part of the Milwaukee metropolitan corridor, where a D+28.3 presidential margin in 2024 reflects the denser urban and inner-suburban electorate that defines its voting patterns.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 44.6 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 40.6 points in 1920. The 2024 margin was 28.3 points.
A population of 177,860, a 75% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $75,505 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 6 and State Senate District 21.
The state-senate 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 7th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/55007/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.