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State

Wisconsin

Office (updates table and map)

President margin by year

Place winner margin

1892–2024 · D minus R

Full record · 1892 → 2024

2024StatewideR+0.9

72 counties by 2024 margin · County presidential returns

County results72 areas · 2024 President vote · select an area for its full record

MenomineeD+61.7Dem 1,266Rep 296Other 10Total 1,572DaneD+51.5Dem 273,995Rep 85,454Other 6,480Total 365,929MilwaukeeD+38.4Dem 316,292Rep 138,022Other 9,793Total 464,107BayfieldD+11.1Dem 6,107Rep 4,860Other 273Total 11,240Eau ClaireD+10.6Dem 34,400Rep 27,728Other 1,049Total 63,177La CrosseD+9.4Dem 39,008Rep 32,247Other 1,006Total 72,261IowaD+7.6Dem 7,750Rep 6,631Other 296Total 14,677RockD+7.3Dem 46,642Rep 40,218Other 1,450Total 88,310DouglasD+5.3Dem 13,073Rep 11,732Other 429Total 25,234AshlandD+4.7Dem 4,612Rep 4,191Other 152Total 8,955DoorD+2.2Dem 10,565Rep 10,099Other 280Total 20,944PortageD+1.2Dem 21,503Rep 20,987Other 768Total 43,258GreenD+0.3Dem 10,903Rep 10,843Other 330Total 22,076SaukR+1.7Dem 18,172Rep 18,798Other 614Total 37,584ColumbiaR+4.6Dem 16,388Rep 17,988Other 538Total 34,914WinnebagoR+4.7Dem 44,660Rep 49,179Other 1,532Total 95,371RacineR+6.2Dem 49,721Rep 56,347Other 1,618Total 107,686KenoshaR+6.2Dem 41,826Rep 47,478Other 1,376Total 90,680BrownR+7.5Dem 67,937Rep 79,132Other 2,264Total 149,333VernonR+7.8Dem 7,514Rep 8,807Other 288Total 16,609OutagamieR+10.2Dem 49,438Rep 60,827Other 1,667Total 111,932OzaukeeR+10.4Dem 27,874Rep 34,504Other 1,094Total 63,472RichlandR+13.1Dem 3,985Rep 5,207Other 131Total 9,323CrawfordR+13.8Dem 3,860Rep 5,113Other 132Total 9,105DunnR+15.9Dem 10,643Rep 14,726Other 309Total 25,678SheboyganR+16.3Dem 27,735Rep 38,763Other 1,064Total 67,562JeffersonR+16.3Dem 20,574Rep 28,771Other 801Total 50,146SawyerR+16.4Dem 4,599Rep 6,422Other 119Total 11,140PierceR+16.7Dem 10,171Rep 14,417Other 804Total 25,392OneidaR+17.6Dem 10,080Rep 14,455Other 360Total 24,895GrantR+18.1Dem 10,966Rep 15,922Other 418Total 27,306MarathonR+18.6Dem 31,529Rep 46,213Other 1,084Total 78,826St. CroixR+19.2Dem 23,870Rep 35,537Other 1,235Total 60,642JacksonR+19.5Dem 4,157Rep 6,204Other 141Total 10,502WaukeshaR+19.7Dem 108,478Rep 162,768Other 4,541Total 275,787WoodR+19.9Dem 16,599Rep 24,997Other 620Total 42,216CalumetR+19.9Dem 12,927Rep 19,488Other 501Total 32,916LafayetteR+20.2Dem 3,469Rep 5,256Other 107Total 8,832TrempealeauR+21.4Dem 6,219Rep 9,661Other 199Total 16,079WalworthR+22.2Dem 23,161Rep 36,603Other 833Total 60,597ChippewaR+22.9Dem 14,573Rep 23,399Other 499Total 38,471VilasR+23.0Dem 6,119Rep 9,837Other 179Total 16,135ManitowocR+23.3Dem 17,399Rep 28,200Other 717Total 46,316LincolnR+25.1Dem 6,306Rep 10,633Other 270Total 17,209AdamsR+25.8Dem 4,443Rep 7,763Other 676Total 12,882MonroeR+26.0Dem 8,476Rep 14,563Other 330Total 23,369IronR+26.2Dem 1,487Rep 2,557Other 40Total 4,084WashburnR+28.2Dem 3,867Rep 6,962Other 149Total 10,978Fond du LacR+28.7Dem 20,495Rep 37,272Other 760Total 58,527BarronR+29.0Dem 8,941Rep 16,726Other 1,142Total 26,809PepinR+29.3Dem 1,523Rep 2,798Other 33Total 4,354MarquetteR+29.6Dem 3,252Rep 6,041Other 134Total 9,427BuffaloR+30.2Dem 2,765Rep 5,213Other 122Total 8,100BurnettR+30.9Dem 3,665Rep 7,008Other 137Total 10,810PolkR+30.9Dem 9,567Rep 18,296Other 359Total 28,222PriceR+31.1Dem 3,005Rep 5,763Other 88Total 8,856JuneauR+32.1Dem 4,854Rep 9,525Other 174Total 14,553DodgeR+32.9Dem 16,518Rep 33,067Other 715Total 50,300WaupacaR+33.4Dem 9,947Rep 20,093Other 363Total 30,403ForestR+33.4Dem 1,681Rep 3,382Other 34Total 5,097KewauneeR+33.7Dem 4,059Rep 8,267Other 158Total 12,484LangladeR+34.6Dem 3,746Rep 7,782Other 136Total 11,664WausharaR+35.2Dem 4,571Rep 9,625Other 167Total 14,363WashingtonR+36.2Dem 28,504Rep 61,604Other 1,299Total 91,407ShawanoR+36.2Dem 7,336Rep 15,850Other 314Total 23,500Green LakeR+36.3Dem 3,449Rep 7,458Other 145Total 11,052MarinetteR+37.9Dem 7,415Rep 16,670Other 330Total 24,415RuskR+38.0Dem 2,516Rep 5,660Other 94Total 8,270ClarkR+38.9Dem 4,509Rep 10,481Other 350Total 15,340OcontoR+43.0Dem 6,967Rep 17,675Other 270Total 24,912TaylorR+48.1Dem 2,823Rep 8,209Other 154Total 11,186FlorenceR+49.8Dem 783Rep 2,356Other 19Total 3,158

People and households

Who lives here

Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.

Race · ethnicity · ancestry

Communities and origins

German35.8%12.5%

Irish10.4%9.4%

Polish7.6%2.2%

English6.7%9.5%

Norwegian6.1%—

American3.4%5.3%

Italian2.7%4.8%

French2.2%1.6%

Mexican5.4%11.3%

Puerto Rican1.1%1.8%

African American†5.3%9.9%

African0.2%0.5%

Hmong1.0%—

Asian Indian0.6%1.4%

Chinese0.4%1.3%

Filipino0.2%0.9%

Hispanic or Latino counts residents of any race; the race groups count only their non-Hispanic residents, so the groups are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%. Expand a row to see ancestries reported within that group.

Age and life stage

Measure	Wisconsin	United States
Median age	40.5	39.1
Age 18–24	9.3%	9.2%
Age 65 and older	18.5%	17.2%

Household economy

Measure	Wisconsin	United States
Median household income	$77,485	$84,427
Poverty rate	10.6%	12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)	33.5%	35.6%

Housing and tenure

Measure	Wisconsin	United States
Owner-occupied homes	67.8%	65.2%
Renter-occupied homes	32.2%	34.8%
Median home value	$266,500	$332,700
Median gross rent (monthly)	$1,087	$1,413
Renters paying 30%+ of income	43.7%	51.1%
Vacant housing units	10.8%	10.1%

Getting to work

Measure	Wisconsin	United States
Mean commute	22.2 min	26.4 min
Commutes 60 minutes or more	4.8%	8.6%
Drives alone to work	74.4%	68.8%
Takes public transit	1.1%	3.2%
Works from home	13.1%	15.1%

Languages at home

Measure	Wisconsin	United States
Speaks a non-English language at home	9.1%	22.3%
Spanish	5.0%	13.6%
Other Asian & Pacific Island	1.2%	1.1%

Religious landscape

Measure	Wisconsin	United States
Catholic	21.0%	18.6%
Evangelical Protestant	14.5%	16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted	52.0%	51.5%
Mainline Protestant	8.4%	5.2%

Origins and service

Measure	Wisconsin	United States
Foreign-born residents	5.2%	14.1%
Naturalized citizens	2.5%	7.4%
Not U.S. citizens	2.7%	6.8%
Veterans (18+)	6.2%	6.2%
Income inequality (Gini)	0.444	0.483

American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations · American Community Survey 2024 — housing and tenure (B25003, B25002, B25077, B25064, B25070), commuting (B08013, B08303, B08301), origins and service (B05002, B21001, B19083).

President results by year

2024 turnout 76.2% of 4,505,016 citizens 18+

HarrisDemocratic48.7%1,668,229TrumpRepublican49.6%1,697,626KennedyNo Party0.5%17,740

R+0.9

Lead: 29,397
Total: 3,422,918
vs nation: D+0.6
Turnout: 76.2%

BidenDemocratic49.4%1,630,866TrumpRepublican48.8%1,610,184JorgensenIndependent1.2%38,491

D+0.6

Lead: 20,682
Total: 3,298,041
vs nation: R+3.8
Turnout: 75.3%

ClintonDemocratic46.5%1,382,536TrumpRepublican47.2%1,405,284JohnsonLibertarian3.6%106,674

R+0.8

Lead: 22,748
Total: 2,976,150
vs nation: R+2.9
Turnout: 69.4%

ObamaDemocratic52.8%1,620,985RomneyRepublican45.9%1,407,966OtherAll other candidates1.1%34,553

D+6.9

Lead: 213,019
Total: 3,068,434
vs nation: D+3.1
Turnout: —

ObamaDemocratic56.2%1,676,761MccainRepublican42.3%1,262,393NaderIndependent0.6%17,605

D+13.9

Lead: 414,368
Total: 2,982,967
vs nation: D+6.6
Turnout: —

KerryDemocratic49.7%1,489,504BushRepublican49.3%1,478,120NaderIndependent0.6%17,272

D+0.4

Lead: 11,384
Total: 2,997,007
vs nation: D+2.8
Turnout: —

GoreDemocratic47.8%1,242,987BushRepublican47.6%1,237,279NaderGreen3.6%94,070

D+0.2

Lead: 5,708
Total: 2,598,607
vs nation: R+0.3
Turnout: —

ClintonDemocratic48.8%1,071,971DoleRepublican38.5%845,029PerotReform Party10.4%227,339

D+10.3

Lead: 226,942
Total: 2,196,169
vs nation: D+1.8
Turnout: —

Wisconsin keeps producing the closest result in the country. Donald Trump carried it in 2024 by nine-tenths of a point (R+0.9) — 1,697,626 votes to 1,668,229, a margin of 29,397 out of 3.4 million cast. It was the third straight presidential race decided inside a single point: Trump by 0.8 in 2016 (R+0.8), Joe Biden by 0.6 in 2020 (D+0.6), then back to Trump in 2024, a swing of one and a half points across the two cycles. No other state has run three consecutive presidential margins this tight, and the same ground decides each one.

The arithmetic is two engines against the rest of the map. Dane County, which holds Madison and the flagship University of Wisconsin, voted Democratic by 51.5 points in 2024; Milwaukee County, the largest in the state, by 38.4 — together more than 590,000 Democratic votes. Against them stand the WOW suburbs arcing west and north of Milwaukee — Waukesha (R+19.7), Ozaukee (R+10.4), and Washington (R+36.2) — and the rural north, where Florence County ran R+49.8, the state's most Republican. The bluest is Menominee County, on its tribal land, at D+61.7. Every statewide race is the sum of these.

The suburbs and the lakeshore are moving in opposite directions. Waukesha and Ozaukee, the affluent Republican strongholds, have softened each cycle — Waukesha from R+34.5 in 2012 to R+19.7 in 2024, Ozaukee from R+30.3 to R+10.4 — while Kenosha County, on the Illinois line, went the other way, from Barack Obama by 12.2 points in 2012 to Trump by 6.2 in 2024, a working-class lakeshore county that flipped and kept drifting. The state underneath is heavily German in ancestry (35.8 percent), Catholic-rooted (21 percent, 14th of fifty), and almost exactly the national middle: 33.5 percent hold a bachelor's degree, 29th of fifty.

current representation

Current officeholders

DTony EversGovernor

DSara RodriguezLieutenant Governor

DSarah GodlewskiSecretary of State

DJosh KaulAttorney General

RJohn LeiberState Treasurer

DTammy BaldwinU.S. Senate-0.49

RRon JohnsonU.S. Senate+0.65

U.S. House8 seats · D 2 · R 6

RWI-01Bryan Steil

DWI-02Mark Pocan

RWI-03Derrick Van Orden

DWI-04Gwen Moore

RWI-05Scott Fitzgerald

RWI-06Glenn Grothman

RWI-07Thomas Tiffany

RWI-08Tony Wied

Statewide officers curated as of 2026-06-27 (Ballotpedia / Wisconsin LRB State Officers); U.S. delegation from Voteview HSall_members.csv.

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