Number of elections | 44 |
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Voted Democratic | 19 |
Voted Republican | 25 |
Voted other | 1 [lower-alpha 1] |
Voted for winning candidate | 34 |
Voted for losing candidate | 10 |
Elections in Wisconsin |
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Since Wisconsin's admission to the Union in May 1848, [1] it has participated in 44 U.S. presidential elections. In 1924, Robert M. La Follette became the only third-party presidential candidate to win in Wisconsin, taking 53.96% of the popular vote. Since 1988, Wisconsin has leaned towards the Democratic Party in presidential elections, although Republican Donald Trump won the state by a margin of 0.77 percentage points. Wisconsin is tied with Michigan and Pennsylvania for the longest active streak of voting for the winning candidate, last voting for a losing candidate in 2004.
In the 2020 presidential election, Democrat Joe Biden won Wisconsin, defeating Trump by 0.62 percentage points. During the 2021 United States Electoral College vote count, 36 members of the House of Representatives objected to the certification of Wisconsin's electoral votes based on unsupported claims of election fraud, but the objection failed because it was not joined by a senator. [2]
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Note – A double dagger (‡) indicates the national winner. |
Year | Winner | Runner-up | Other candidate [lower-alpha 2] | EV | Ref. | |||||||||
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Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | % | ||||||
1848 | Lewis Cass (D) | 15,001 | 38.30% | Zachary Taylor (W) ‡ | 13,747 | 35.10% | Martin Van Buren (FS) | 10,418 | 26.60% | 4 | [3] [4] [5] | |||
1852 | Franklin Pierce (D) ‡ | 33,658 | 51.99% | Winfield Scott (W) | 22,240 | 34.35% | John P. Hale (FS) | 8,842 | 13.66% | 5 | [6] [4] [7] | |||
1856 | John C. Frémont (R) | 67,090 | 55.67% | James Buchanan (D) ‡ | 52,843 | 43.85% | Millard Fillmore (KN) | 580 | 0.48% | 5 | [4] [8] |
The election of 1860 was a complex realigning election in which the breakdown of the previous two-party alignment culminated in four parties each competing for influence in different parts of the country. The result of the election, with the victory of an ardent opponent of slavery, spurred the secession of eleven states and brought about the American Civil War.
Year | Winner | Runner-up | Other candidate | Other candidate | EV | Ref. | ||||||||
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Candidate | Votes (%) | Candidate | Votes (%) | Candidate | Votes (%) | Candidate | Votes (%) | |||||||
1860 | Abraham Lincoln (R) ‡ | 86,110 (56.58%) | Stephen A. Douglas (D) | 65,021 (42.73%) | John C. Breckinridge (SD) | 887 (0.58%) | John Bell (CU) | 161 (0.11%) | 5 | [9] [10] |
Year | Winner | Runner-up | Other candidate [lower-alpha 2] | EV | Ref. | |||||||||
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Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | % | ||||||
1864 | Abraham Lincoln (R) ‡ | 83,458 | 55.88% | George B. McClellan (D) | 65,884 | 44.12% | – | – | – | 8 | [11] [12] | |||
1868 | Ulysses S. Grant (R) ‡ | 108,920 | 56.25% | Horatio Seymour (D) | 84,708 | 43.75% | – | – | – | 8 | [13] [14] | |||
1872 | Ulysses S. Grant (R) ‡ | 105,012 | 54.62% | Horace Greeley (D) | 86,390 | 44.94% | Charles O'Conor (SOD) | 853 | 0.44% | 10 | [15] [16] | |||
1876 | Rutherford B. Hayes (R) ‡ | 130,668 | 50.69% | Samuel Tilden (D) | 123,927 | 48.07% | Peter Cooper (GB) | 1,509 | 0.59% | 10 | [17] | |||
1880 | James A. Garfield (R) ‡ | 144,406 | 54.04% | Winfield S. Hancock (D) | 114,650 | 42.91% | James B. Weaver (GB) | 7,986 | 2.99% | 10 | [18] [19] | |||
1884 | James G. Blaine (R) | 161,155 | 50.39% | Grover Cleveland (D) ‡ | 146,447 | 45.79% | John P. St. John (PRO) | 7,651 | 2.39% | 11 | [20] [21] | |||
1888 | Benjamin Harrison (R) ‡ | 176,553 | 49.79% | Grover Cleveland (D) | 155,232 | 43.77% | Clinton B. Fisk (PRO) | 14,277 | 4.03% | 11 | [22] [23] | |||
1892 | Grover Cleveland (D) ‡ | 177,325 | 47.73% | Benjamin Harrison (R) | 171,101 | 46.06% | John Bidwell (PRO) | 13,136 | 3.54% | 12 | [24] [25] | |||
1896 | William McKinley (R) ‡ | 268,135 | 59.93% | William Jennings Bryan (D) | 165,523 | 37.00% | Joshua Levering (PRO) | 7,507 | 1.68% | 12 | [26] [27] | |||
1900 | William McKinley (R) ‡ | 265,760 | 60.06% | William Jennings Bryan (D) | 159,163 | 35.97% | John G. Woolley (PRO) | 10,027 | 2.27% | 12 | [28] [29] | |||
1904 | Theodore Roosevelt (R) ‡ | 280,314 | 63.21% | Alton B. Parker (D) | 124,205 | 28.01% | Eugene V. Debs (S) | 28,240 | 6.37% | 13 | [30] [31] | |||
1908 | William Howard Taft (R) ‡ | 247,744 | 54.52% | William Jennings Bryan (D) | 166,662 | 36.67% | Eugene V. Debs (S) | 28,147 | 6.19% | 13 | [32] [33] | |||
1912 | Woodrow Wilson (D) ‡ | 164,230 | 41.06% | William Howard Taft (R) | 130,596 | 32.65% | Theodore Roosevelt (PR-1912) | 62,448 | 15.61% | 13 | [34] [35] | |||
1916 | Charles E. Hughes (R) | 220,822 | 49.39% | Woodrow Wilson (D) ‡ | 191,363 | 42.80% | Allan L. Benson (S) | 27,631 | 6.18% | 13 | [36] [37] | |||
1920 | Warren G. Harding (R) ‡ | 498,576 | 71.10% | James M. Cox (D) | 113,422 | 16.17% | Eugene V. Debs (S) | 80,635 | 11.50% | 13 | [38] [39] | |||
1924 | Robert LaFollette (PR-1924) | 453,678 | 53.96% | Calvin Coolidge (R) ‡ | 311,614 | 37.06% | John W. Davis (D) | 68,115 | 8.10% | 13 | [40] [41] | |||
1928 | Herbert Hoover (R) ‡ | 544,205 | 53.52% | Alfred E. Smith (D) | 450,259 | 44.28% | Norman M. Thomas (S) | 18,213 | 1.79% | 13 | [42] [43] | |||
1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) ‡ | 707,410 | 63.46% | Herbert Hoover (R) | 347,741 | 31.19% | Norman M. Thomas (S) | 53,379 | 4.79% | 12 | [44] [45] | |||
1936 | Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) ‡ | 802,984 | 63.80% | Herbert Hoover (R) | 380,828 | 30.26% | William Lemke (Union) | 60,297 | 4.79% | 12 | [46] [47] | |||
1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) ‡ | 704,821 | 50.15% | Wendell L. Willkie (R) | 679,206 | 48.32% | Norman M. Thomas (S) | 15,071 | 1.07% | 12 | [48] [49] | |||
1944 | Thomas E. Dewey (R) | 674,532 | 50.37% | Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) ‡ | 650,413 | 48.57% | Norman M. Thomas (S) | 13,205 | 0.99% | 12 | [50] [51] | |||
1948 | Harry S. Truman (D) ‡ | 647,310 | 50.70% | Thomas E. Dewey (R) | 590,959 | 46.28% | Henry A. Wallace (PR-1948) | 25,282 | 1.98% | 12 | [52] [53] | |||
1952 | Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) ‡ | 979,744 | 60.95% | Adlai Stevenson (D) | 622,175 | 38.71% | Vincent Hallinan (PR-1948) | 2,174 | 0.14% | 12 | [54] [55] | |||
1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) ‡ | 954,844 | 61.58% | Adlai Stevenson (D) | 586,768 | 37.84% | T. Coleman Andrews (C) | 6,918 | 0.45% | 12 | [56] [57] | |||
1960 | Richard M. Nixon (R) | 895,175 | 51.77% | John F. Kennedy (D) ‡ | 830,805 | 48.05% | Farrell Dobbs (SWP) | 1,792 | 0.10% | 12 | [58] [59] | |||
1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson (D) ‡ | 1,050,424 | 62.09% | Barry Goldwater (R) | 638,495 | 37.74% | Clifton DeBerry (SWP) | 1,692 | 0.10% | 12 | [60] [61] | |||
1968 | Richard M. Nixon (R) ‡ | 809,997 | 47.89% | Hubert Humphrey (D) | 748,804 | 44.27% | George Wallace (AI) | 127,835 | 7.56% | 12 | [62] [63] | |||
1972 | Richard M. Nixon (R) ‡ | 989,430 | 53.40% | George McGovern (D) | 810,174 | 43.72% | John G. Schmitz (A) | 47,525 | 2.56% | 11 | [64] [65] | |||
1976 | Jimmy Carter (D) ‡ | 1,040,232 | 49.44% | Gerald R. Ford (R) | 1,004,987 | 47.76% | Eugene J. McCarthy (I) | 34,943 | 1.66% | 11 | [66] [67] | |||
1980 | Ronald Reagan (R) ‡ | 1,088,845 | 47.90% | Jimmy Carter (D) | 981,584 | 43.18% | John B. Anderson (I) | 160,657 | 7.07% | 11 | [68] [69] | |||
1984 | Ronald Reagan (R) ‡ | 1,198,584 | 54.19% | Walter Mondale (D) | 995,740 | 45.02% | David Bergland (LI) | 4,883 | 0.22% | 11 | [70] [71] | |||
1988 | Michael Dukakis (D) | 1,126,794 | 51.41% | George H. W. Bush (R) ‡ | 1,047,499 | 47.80% | Ron Paul (LI) | 5,157 | 0.24% | 11 | [72] [73] | |||
1992 | Bill Clinton (D) ‡ | 1,041,066 | 41.13% | George H. W. Bush (R) | 930,855 | 36.78% | Ross Perot (I) | 544,479 | 21.51% | 11 | [74] [75] | |||
1996 | Bill Clinton (D) ‡ | 1,071,971 | 48.81% | Bob Dole (R) | 845,029 | 38.48% | Ross Perot (RE) | 227,339 | 10.35% | 11 | [76] [77] | |||
2000 | Al Gore (D) | 1,242,987 | 47.83% | George W. Bush (R) ‡ | 1,237,279 | 47.61% | Ralph Nader (G) | 94,070 | 3.62% | 11 | [78] [79] | |||
2004 | John Kerry (D) | 1,489,504 | 49.70% | George W. Bush (R) ‡ | 1,478,120 | 49.32% | Ralph Nader (RE) | 16,390 | 0.55% | 10 | [80] [81] | |||
2008 | Barack Obama (D) ‡ | 1,677,211 | 56.22% | John McCain (R) | 1,262,393 | 42.31% | Ralph Nader (I) | 17,605 | 0.59% | 10 | [82] [83] | |||
2012 | Barack Obama (D) ‡ | 1,620,985 | 52.83% | Mitt Romney (R) | 1,407,966 | 45.89% | Gary Johnson (I) | 20,439 | 0.67% | 10 | [84] | |||
2016 | Donald Trump (R) ‡ | 1,405,284 | 47.22% | Hillary Clinton (D) | 1,382,536 | 46.45% | Gary Johnson (LI) | 106,674 | 3.58% | 10 | [85] | |||
2020 | Joe Biden (D) ‡ | 1,630,866 | 49.45% | Donald Trump (R) | 1,610,184 | 48.82% | Jo Jorgensen (LI) | 38,491 | 1.17% | 10 | [86] |
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The 1924 United States presidential election was the 35th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 4, 1924. In a three-way contest, incumbent Republican President Calvin Coolidge won election to a full term. Coolidge was the second vice president to ascend to the presidency and then win a full term.
Robert MarionLa Follette Sr., was an American lawyer and politician. He represented Wisconsin in both chambers of Congress and served as the governor of Wisconsin from 1901 to 1906. A Republican for most of his life, he ran for president of the United States as the nominee of his own Progressive Party in the 1924 presidential election. Historian John D. Buenker describes La Follette as "the most celebrated figure in Wisconsin history".
Douglas J. La Follette is an American academic, environmental scientist, and politician who served as the 30th secretary of state of Wisconsin from 1983 to 2023. He is a member of the Democratic Party. At the time of his retirement, La Follette was the longest-serving statewide elected official in the United States; he was narrowly re-elected in 2022 to an unprecedented 12th term in office, but retired shortly after the start of the new term. He previously served as the 28th secretary of state from 1975 to 1979, and in the Wisconsin Senate from 1973 to 1975.
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Since Arizona's admission to the Union in February 1912, it has participated in 28 United States presidential elections.
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Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the United States. One of the original Thirteen Colonies, Connecticut has participated in all fifty-nine U.S. presidential elections since the American Revolution. In the early days of the United States, Connecticut was known for supporting the conservative Federalist Party. In the Second Party System, Connecticut leaned towards the anti-Jackson candidates. Following the Civil War, Connecticut was a swing state for a long time until 1896. Thereafter until 1932, Connecticut was a Republican stronghold. During this period, Connecticut Republican Party chairman J. Henry Roraback built up a political machine which was "efficient, conservative, penurious, and in absolute control".
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Washington is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Since its admission to the Union in 1889, the state has participated in 33 United States presidential elections.
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The 1924 United States presidential election in Kansas was held on November 4, 1924 as part of the 1924 United States presidential election. State voters chose ten electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
The 1924 United States presidential election in North Carolina took place on November 4, 1924, as part of the 1924 United States presidential election, which was held throughout all contemporary forty-eight states. Voters chose twelve representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.