United States presidential elections in Wisconsin

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Presidential elections in Wisconsin
Wisconsin in United States.svg
Number of elections45
Voted Democratic18
Voted Republican26
Voted other1 [a]
Voted for winning candidate34
Voted for losing candidate10

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.

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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 because of unsubstantiated claims of election fraud, but the objection failed because it was not joined by a senator. [2]

In the 2024 presidential election, Republican candidate Donald Trump won Wisconsin by 0.87 percentage points over Kamala Harris.


Elections

Key for parties
   American Independent Party – (AI)
   American Party (1969) – (A)
   Constitution Party – (C)
   Constitutional Union Party – (CU)
   Democratic Party – (D)
   Free Soil Party – (FS)
   Green Party – (G)
   Greenback Party – (GB)
   Independent candidate – (I)
   Know Nothing Party – (KN)
   Libertarian Party – (LI)
   Progressive Party (1912) – (PR-1912)
   Progressive Party (1924) – (Progressive Party (United States, 1924))
   Progressive Party (1948) – (PR-1948)
   Prohibition Party – (PRO)
   Reform Party – (RE)
   Republican Party – (R)
   Socialist Party of America – (S)
   Southern Democratic Party – (SD)
   Straight-Out Democratic Party – (SOD)
   Whig Party – (W)
   Union Party – (U)
Note – A double dagger (‡) indicates the national winner.

1848 to 1856

Presidential elections in Wisconsin from 1848 to 1856
YearWinnerRunner-upOther candidate [b] EVRef.
CandidateVotes%CandidateVotes%Candidate Votes%
1848 Lewis Cass (D)15,00138.30% Zachary Taylor (W) ‡13,74735.10% Martin Van Buren (FS) 10,41826.60%4 [3] [4] [5]
1852 Franklin Pierce (D) ‡33,65851.99% Winfield Scott (W)22,24034.35% John P. Hale (FS) 8,84213.66%5 [6] [4] [7]
1856 John C. Frémont (R)67,09055.67% James Buchanan (D) ‡52,84343.85% Millard Fillmore (KN) 5800.48%5 [4] [8]

Election of 1860

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.

1860 presidential election in Wisconsin
YearWinnerRunner-upOther candidateOther candidateEVRef.
CandidateVotes
(%)		CandidateVotes
(%)		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]

1864 to present

Presidential elections in Wisconsin from 1864 to present
YearWinnerRunner-upOther candidate [b] EVRef.
CandidateVotes%CandidateVotes%Candidate Votes%
1864 Abraham Lincoln (R) ‡83,45855.88% George B. McClellan (D)65,88444.12%–––8 [11] [12]
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) ‡108,92056.25% Horatio Seymour (D)84,70843.75%–––8 [13] [14]
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) ‡105,01254.62% Horace Greeley (D)86,39044.94% Charles O'Conor (SOD) 8530.44%10 [15] [16]
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) ‡130,66850.69% Samuel Tilden (D)123,92748.07% Peter Cooper (GB) 1,5090.59%10 [17]
1880 James A. Garfield (R) ‡144,40654.04% Winfield S. Hancock (D)114,65042.91% James B. Weaver (GB) 7,9862.99%10 [18] [19]
1884 James G. Blaine (R)161,15550.39% Grover Cleveland (D) ‡146,44745.79% John P. St. John (PRO) 7,6512.39%11 [20] [21]
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) ‡176,55349.79% Grover Cleveland (D)155,23243.77% Clinton B. Fisk (PRO) 14,2774.03%11 [22] [23]
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) ‡177,32547.73% Benjamin Harrison (R)171,10146.06% John Bidwell (PRO) 13,1363.54%12 [24] [25]
1896 William McKinley (R) ‡268,13559.93% William Jennings Bryan (D)165,52337.00% Joshua Levering (PRO) 7,5071.68%12 [26] [27]
1900 William McKinley (R) ‡265,76060.06% William Jennings Bryan (D)159,16335.97% John G. Woolley (PRO) 10,0272.27%12 [28] [29]
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) ‡280,31463.21% Alton B. Parker (D)124,20528.01% Eugene V. Debs (S) 28,2406.37%13 [30] [31]
1908 William Howard Taft (R) ‡247,74454.52% William Jennings Bryan (D)166,66236.67% Eugene V. Debs (S) 28,1476.19%13 [32] [33]
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) ‡164,23041.06% William Howard Taft (R)130,59632.65% Theodore Roosevelt (PR-1912) 62,44815.61%13 [34] [35]
1916 Charles E. Hughes (R)220,82249.39% Woodrow Wilson (D) ‡191,36342.80% Allan L. Benson (S) 27,6316.18%13 [36] [37]
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) ‡498,57671.10% James M. Cox (D)113,42216.17% Eugene V. Debs (S) 80,63511.50%13 [38] [39]
1924 Robert LaFollette (Progressive Party (United States, 1924))453,67853.96% Calvin Coolidge (R) ‡311,61437.06% John W. Davis (D) 68,1158.10%13 [40] [41]
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) ‡544,20553.52% Alfred E. Smith (D)450,25944.28% Norman M. Thomas (S) 18,2131.79%13 [42] [43]
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) ‡707,41063.46% Herbert Hoover (R)347,74131.19% Norman M. Thomas (S) 53,3794.79%12 [44] [45]
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) ‡802,98463.80% Alfred Landon (R)380,82830.26% William Lemke (Union) 60,2974.79%12 [46] [47]
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) ‡704,82150.15% Wendell L. Willkie (R)679,20648.32% Norman M. Thomas (S) 15,0711.07%12 [48] [49]
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R)674,53250.37% Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) ‡650,41348.57% Norman M. Thomas (S) 13,2050.99%12 [50] [51]
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) ‡647,31050.70% Thomas E. Dewey (R)590,95946.28% Henry A. Wallace (PR-1948) 25,2821.98%12 [52] [53]
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) ‡979,74460.95% Adlai Stevenson (D)622,17538.71% Vincent Hallinan (PR-1948) 2,1740.14%12 [54] [55]
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) ‡954,84461.58% Adlai Stevenson (D)586,76837.84% T. Coleman Andrews (C) 6,9180.45%12 [56] [57]
1960 Richard M. Nixon (R)895,17551.77% John F. Kennedy (D) ‡830,80548.05% Farrell Dobbs (SWP) 1,7920.10%12 [58] [59]
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) ‡1,050,42462.09% Barry Goldwater (R)638,49537.74% Clifton DeBerry (SWP) 1,6920.10%12 [60] [61]
1968 Richard M. Nixon (R) ‡809,99747.89% Hubert Humphrey (D)748,80444.27% George Wallace (AI) 127,8357.56%12 [62] [63]
1972 Richard M. Nixon (R) ‡989,43053.40% George McGovern (D)810,17443.72% John G. Schmitz (A) 47,5252.56%11 [64] [65]
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) ‡1,040,23249.44% Gerald R. Ford (R)1,004,98747.76% Eugene J. McCarthy (I) 34,9431.66%11 [66] [67]
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) ‡1,088,84547.90% Jimmy Carter (D)981,58443.18% John B. Anderson (I) 160,6577.07%11 [68] [69]
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) ‡1,198,58454.19% Walter Mondale (D)995,74045.02% David Bergland (LI) 4,8830.22%11 [70] [71]
1988 Michael Dukakis (D)1,126,79451.41% George H. W. Bush (R) ‡1,047,49947.80% Ron Paul (LI) 5,1570.24%11 [72] [73]
1992 Bill Clinton (D) ‡1,041,06641.13% George H. W. Bush (R)930,85536.78% Ross Perot (I) 544,47921.51%11 [74] [75]
1996 Bill Clinton (D) ‡1,071,97148.81% Bob Dole (R)845,02938.48% Ross Perot (RE) 227,33910.35%11 [76] [77]
2000 Al Gore (D)1,242,98747.83% George W. Bush (R) ‡1,237,27947.61% Ralph Nader (G) 94,0703.62%11 [78] [79]
2004 John Kerry (D)1,489,50449.70% George W. Bush (R) ‡1,478,12049.32% Ralph Nader (RE) 16,3900.55%10 [80] [81]
2008 Barack Obama (D) ‡1,677,21156.22% John McCain (R)1,262,39342.31% Ralph Nader (I) 17,6050.59%10 [82] [83]
2012 Barack Obama (D) ‡1,620,98552.83% Mitt Romney (R)1,407,96645.89% Gary Johnson (I) 20,4390.67%10 [84]
2016 Donald Trump (R) ‡1,405,28447.22% Hillary Clinton (D)1,382,53646.45% Gary Johnson (LI) 106,6743.58%10 [85]
2020 Joe Biden (D) ‡1,630,86649.45% Donald Trump (R)1,610,18448.82% Jo Jorgensen (LI) 38,4911.17%10 [86]
2024 Donald Trump (R) ‡1,697,62649.60% Kamala Harris (D)1,668,22948.74% Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (I) 17,7400.52%10

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Party percentage vote margin (D+, R−)Year-60-40-20020401860188419081932195619802004Party percentage vote margin (D+, R−)Results of the United States presidential el...
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See also

Note

  1. ↑ Robert La Follette Sr., 1924
  2. 1 2 For purposes of these lists, other candidates are defined as those who were in third place in Wisconsin

References

  1. ↑ "Today in History - May 29". Library of Congress. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
  2. ↑ Vetterkind, Riley (January 8, 2021). "Scott Fitzgerald, Tom Tiffany sole Republicans from Wisconsin to object to Joe Biden certification". madison.com. Archived from the original on January 8, 2021. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
  3. ↑ Guide to U.S. Elections 2010, p. 761.
  4. 1 2 3 Wisconsin Blue Book 1997, p. 677.
  5. ↑ Presidential elections, 1789–1996, p. 90.
  6. ↑ Guide to U.S. Elections 2010, p. 762.
  7. ↑ Presidential elections, 1789–1996, p. 91.
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  9. ↑ Guide to U.S. Elections 2010, p. 764.
  10. ↑ Presidential elections, 1789–1996, p. 93.
  11. ↑ Guide to U.S. Elections 2010, p. 765.
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  13. ↑ Guide to U.S. Elections 2010, p. 766.
  14. ↑ Presidential elections, 1789–1996, p. 95.
  15. ↑ Guide to U.S. Elections 2010, p. 767, 803.
  16. ↑ Presidential elections, 1789–1996, p. 96.
  17. ↑ Wisconsin Blue Book (1997, p. 677) cited in Guide to U.S. Elections (2010, pp. 768, 804)
  18. ↑ Guide to U.S. Elections 2010, p. 769.
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