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The 1978 Wisconsin gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1978. Republican Lee S. Dreyfus won the election with 54% of the vote, winning his first term as Governor of Wisconsin and defeating incumbent Democrat Martin J. Schreiber. [1] Bob Kasten unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination.
As of 2024, this is the most occasion that Florence County has voted Democratic in a gubernatorial election.
The primary election was held on September 12, 1978. Nominees for Governor and Lieutenant Governor were selected in separate primaries before running on a joint ticket in the general election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Martin J. Schreiber (incumbent) | 217,572 | 60.44% | |
Democratic | David Carley | 132,901 | 36.92% | |
Democratic | Edmond Hou-Seye | 9,487 | 2.64% | |
Total votes | 359,960 | 100.00% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Douglas J. La Follette | 151,366 | 44.78% | |
Democratic | Dale T. McKenna | 47,257 | 13.98% | |
Democratic | Harout Sanasarian | 40,268 | 11.91% | |
Democratic | Paul Offner | 40,008 | 11.84% | |
Democratic | Robert A. Anderson | 21,230 | 6.28% | |
Democratic | Charles E. Smith | 19,504 | 5.77% | |
Democratic | Monroe Swan | 18,392 | 5.44% | |
Total votes | 338,025 | 100.00% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Lee S. Dreyfus | 197,279 | 57.91% | |
Republican | Robert W. Kasten | 143,361 | 42.09% | |
Total votes | 340,640 | 100.00% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Russell A. Olson | 185,332 | 100.00% | |
Republican | La Verne Ausman | 104,986 | 100.00% | |
Total votes | 290,318 | 100.00% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Conservative | Eugene R. Zimmerman | 1,213 | 100.00% | |
Total votes | 1,213 | 100.00% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Conservative | George Reed | 964 | 100.00% | |
Total votes | 964 | 100.00% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Independent | Doherty & Doherty | 683 | 51.78% | |
Independent | Kaplan & Breihan | 383 | 29.04% | |
Independent | Ochser & Nordlander | 253 | 19.18% | |
Total votes | 1,319 | 100.00% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Republican | Lee S. Dreyfus | 816,056 | 54.37% | +12.30% | |
Democratic | Martin J. Schreiber (incumbent) | 673,813 | 44.89% | −8.29% | |
Conservative | Eugene R. Zimmerman | 6,355 | 0.42% | ||
Independent | John C. Doherty | 2,183 | 0.15% | ||
Independent | Adrienne Kaplan | 1,548 | 0.10% | ||
Independent | Henry A. Ochsner | 849 | 0.06% | ||
Scattering | 192 | 0.01% | |||
Majority | 142,243 | 9.48% | |||
Total votes | 1,500,996 | 100.00% | |||
Republican gain from Democratic | Swing | +20.60% |
Dreyfus was the first Republican since Walter J. Kohler Jr. in 1952 to win Forest County, Portage County, and Rusk County. St. Croix County backed the losing candidate for the first time since 1892, breaking a bellwether streak of 40 consecutive gubernatorial elections. Barron County, Buffalo County, Pepin County, and Washburn County would not vote for the losing candidate again until 2018.
County [4] [5] | Lee S. Dreyfus Republican | Martin J. Schreiber Democratic | All Others Various | Margin | Total votes cast | ||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Adams | 2,567 | 56.50% | 1,941 | 42.73% | 35 | 0.77% | 626 | 13.78% | 4,543 |
Ashland | 2,641 | 45.60% | 3,108 | 53.66% | 43 | 0.74% | -467 | -8.06% | 5,792 |
Barron | 4,868 | 49.57% | 4,901 | 49.91% | 51 | 0.52% | -33 | -0.34% | 9,820 |
Bayfield | 2,354 | 44.42% | 2,889 | 54.52% | 56 | 1.06% | -535 | -10.10% | 5,299 |
Brown | 31,610 | 57.19% | 23,146 | 41.88% | 514 | 0.93% | 8,464 | 15.31% | 55,270 |
Buffalo | 1,980 | 45.65% | 2,329 | 53.70% | 28 | 0.65% | -349 | -8.05% | 4,337 |
Burnett | 1,931 | 41.33% | 2,664 | 57.02% | 77 | 1.65% | -733 | -15.69% | 4,672 |
Calumet | 5,593 | 57.51% | 4,091 | 42.07% | 41 | 0.42% | 1,502 | 15.44% | 9,725 |
Chippewa | 7,624 | 55.97% | 5,880 | 43.17% | 118 | 0.87% | 1,744 | 12.80% | 13,622 |
Clark | 6,123 | 56.80% | 4,583 | 42.52% | 73 | 0.68% | 1,540 | 14.29% | 10,779 |
Columbia | 8,377 | 62.09% | 5,063 | 37.53% | 52 | 0.39% | 3,314 | 24.56% | 13,492 |
Crawford | 2,332 | 52.63% | 2,071 | 46.74% | 28 | 0.63% | 261 | 5.89% | 4,431 |
Dane | 56,631 | 50.24% | 54,916 | 48.72% | 1,166 | 1.03% | 1,715 | 1.52% | 112,713 |
Dodge | 14,280 | 61.89% | 8,656 | 37.51% | 138 | 0.60% | 5,624 | 24.37% | 23,074 |
Door | 5,226 | 59.50% | 3,520 | 40.08% | 37 | 0.42% | 1,706 | 19.42% | 8,783 |
Douglas | 5,504 | 38.94% | 8,494 | 60.10% | 135 | 0.96% | -2,990 | -21.16% | 14,133 |
Dunn | 4,317 | 46.40% | 4,824 | 51.85% | 163 | 1.75% | -507 | -5.45% | 9,304 |
Eau Claire | 12,063 | 52.16% | 10,898 | 47.13% | 164 | 0.71% | 1,165 | 5.04% | 23,125 |
Florence | 692 | 48.56% | 722 | 50.67% | 11 | 0.77% | -30 | -2.11% | 1,425 |
Fond du Lac | 16,305 | 57.31% | 11,848 | 41.64% | 300 | 1.05% | 4,457 | 15.66% | 28,453 |
Forest | 1,653 | 52.08% | 1,493 | 47.04% | 28 | 0.88% | 160 | 5.04% | 3,174 |
Grant | 8,963 | 59.00% | 6,134 | 40.38% | 94 | 0.62% | 2,829 | 18.62% | 15,191 |
Green | 5,211 | 59.63% | 3,493 | 39.97% | 35 | 0.40% | 1,718 | 19.66% | 8,739 |
Green Lake | 4,056 | 69.69% | 1,737 | 29.85% | 27 | 0.46% | 2,319 | 39.85% | 5,820 |
Iowa | 3,269 | 56.13% | 2,519 | 43.25% | 36 | 0.62% | 750 | 12.88% | 5,824 |
Iron | 1,296 | 47.81% | 1,384 | 51.05% | 31 | 1.14% | -88 | -3.25% | 2,711 |
Jackson | 3,118 | 58.71% | 2,157 | 40.61% | 36 | 0.68% | 961 | 18.09% | 5,311 |
Jefferson | 12,255 | 58.59% | 8,519 | 40.73% | 141 | 0.67% | 3,736 | 17.86% | 20,915 |
Juneau | 4,356 | 60.91% | 2,743 | 38.36% | 52 | 0.73% | 1,613 | 22.56% | 7,151 |
Kenosha | 13,518 | 41.36% | 18,976 | 58.06% | 188 | 0.58% | -5,458 | -16.70% | 32,682 |
Kewaunee | 3,446 | 55.86% | 2,690 | 43.61% | 33 | 0.53% | 756 | 12.25% | 6,169 |
La Crosse | 15,954 | 56.52% | 12,053 | 42.70% | 218 | 0.77% | 3,901 | 13.82% | 28,225 |
Lafayette | 3,370 | 56.19% | 2,596 | 43.29% | 31 | 0.52% | 774 | 12.91% | 5,997 |
Langlade | 5,213 | 66.01% | 2,624 | 33.23% | 60 | 0.76% | 2,589 | 32.78% | 7,897 |
Lincoln | 5,838 | 65.77% | 2,975 | 33.52% | 63 | 0.71% | 2,863 | 32.26% | 8,876 |
Manitowoc | 13,130 | 48.06% | 13,898 | 50.87% | 294 | 1.08% | -768 | -2.81% | 27,322 |
Marathon | 24,536 | 64.67% | 12,973 | 34.19% | 433 | 1.14% | 11,563 | 30.48% | 37,942 |
Marinette | 7,376 | 54.62% | 6,030 | 44.65% | 98 | 0.73% | 1,346 | 9.97% | 13,504 |
Marquette | 2,422 | 61.36% | 1,495 | 37.88% | 30 | 0.76% | 927 | 23.49% | 3,947 |
Menominee | 201 | 27.99% | 515 | 71.73% | 2 | 0.28% | -314 | -43.73% | 718 |
Milwaukee | 145,363 | 45.94% | 168,854 | 53.36% | 2,222 | 0.70% | -23,491 | -7.42% | 316,439 |
Monroe | 5,868 | 65.35% | 3,061 | 34.09% | 50 | 0.56% | 2,807 | 31.26% | 8,979 |
Oconto | 5,149 | 59.12% | 3,497 | 40.15% | 63 | 0.72% | 1,652 | 18.97% | 8,709 |
Oneida | 7,818 | 67.98% | 3,632 | 31.58% | 50 | 0.43% | 4,186 | 36.40% | 11,500 |
Outagamie | 23,544 | 58.89% | 16,030 | 40.09% | 409 | 1.02% | 7,514 | 18.79% | 39,983 |
Ozaukee | 17,145 | 67.50% | 8,160 | 32.12% | 96 | 0.38% | 8,985 | 35.37% | 25,401 |
Pepin | 1,016 | 37.81% | 1,647 | 61.30% | 24 | 0.89% | -631 | -23.48% | 2,687 |
Pierce | 3,460 | 44.25% | 4,295 | 54.92% | 65 | 0.83% | -835 | -10.68% | 7,820 |
Polk | 3,950 | 43.66% | 5,027 | 55.57% | 70 | 0.77% | -1,077 | -11.90% | 9,047 |
Portage | 12,722 | 60.18% | 8,272 | 39.13% | 146 | 0.69% | 4,450 | 21.05% | 21,140 |
Price | 3,740 | 64.41% | 2,027 | 34.91% | 40 | 0.69% | 1,713 | 29.50% | 5,807 |
Racine | 26,744 | 51.62% | 24,734 | 47.74% | 334 | 0.64% | 2,010 | 3.88% | 51,812 |
Richland | 3,712 | 60.97% | 2,340 | 38.44% | 36 | 0.59% | 1,372 | 22.54% | 6,088 |
Rock | 18,834 | 51.24% | 17,647 | 48.01% | 273 | 0.74% | 1,187 | 3.23% | 36,754 |
Rusk | 2,517 | 52.13% | 2,269 | 47.00% | 42 | 0.87% | 248 | 5.14% | 4,828 |
Sauk | 7,867 | 60.46% | 5,063 | 38.91% | 82 | 0.63% | 2,804 | 21.55% | 13,012 |
Sawyer | 2,442 | 62.76% | 1,434 | 36.85% | 15 | 0.39% | 1,008 | 25.91% | 3,891 |
Shawano | 7,145 | 63.31% | 4,097 | 36.30% | 44 | 0.39% | 3,048 | 27.01% | 11,286 |
Sheboygan | 18,936 | 53.30% | 16,355 | 46.04% | 235 | 0.66% | 2,581 | 7.27% | 35,526 |
St. Croix | 4,602 | 45.19% | 5,515 | 54.16% | 66 | 0.65% | -913 | -8.97% | 10,183 |
Taylor | 3,391 | 58.62% | 2,338 | 40.41% | 56 | 0.97% | 1,053 | 18.20% | 5,785 |
Trempealeau | 4,108 | 53.14% | 3,595 | 46.51% | 27 | 0.35% | 513 | 6.64% | 7,730 |
Vernon | 4,538 | 59.53% | 3,048 | 39.98% | 37 | 0.49% | 1,490 | 19.55% | 7,623 |
Vilas | 4,619 | 67.54% | 2,190 | 32.02% | 30 | 0.44% | 2,429 | 35.52% | 6,839 |
Walworth | 12,808 | 63.12% | 7,386 | 36.40% | 98 | 0.48% | 5,422 | 26.72% | 20,292 |
Washburn | 2,306 | 48.06% | 2,447 | 51.00% | 45 | 0.94% | -141 | -2.94% | 4,798 |
Washington | 15,645 | 60.82% | 9,951 | 38.69% | 127 | 0.49% | 5,694 | 22.14% | 25,723 |
Waukesha | 62,062 | 65.53% | 32,138 | 33.93% | 509 | 0.54% | 29,924 | 31.60% | 94,709 |
Waupaca | 9,096 | 67.75% | 4,273 | 31.83% | 57 | 0.42% | 4,823 | 35.92% | 13,426 |
Waushara | 3,791 | 68.39% | 1,729 | 31.19% | 23 | 0.41% | 2,062 | 37.20% | 5,543 |
Winnebago | 24,874 | 57.24% | 18,137 | 41.74% | 441 | 1.01% | 6,737 | 15.50% | 43,452 |
Wood | 14,045 | 60.34% | 9,077 | 39.00% | 155 | 0.67% | 4,968 | 21.34% | 23,277 |
Total | 816,056 | 54.37% | 673,813 | 44.89% | 11,127 | 0.74% | 142,243 | 9.48% | 1,500,996 |
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