How Wisconsin has voted since 1960
Wisconsin has 10 electoral votes in 2028, and at the current pace of population change it would lose one electoral vote after the 2030 census. Since 1960 it has voted Democratic 10 times and Republican 7 times. It has backed the winner in every election since 2008 (13 of 17 since 1960). Donald Trump carried it in 2024 by 0.9 points, 0.6 points more Democratic than the nation. In 2024, 76.7% of its eligible voters cast a ballot, the highest turnout in the country (nationally, 64.3%). It last voted Democratic in 2020, for Joe Biden. Its closest result was in 2000, when Al Gore won it by 5,708 votes.
- 1960Nixon+3.7
- 1964Johnson+24.4
- 1968Nixon+3.6
- 1972Nixon+9.7
- 1976Carter+1.7
- 1980Reagan+4.7
- 1984Reagan+9.2
- 1988Dukakis+3.6
- 1992Clinton+4.4
- 1996Clinton+10.3
- 2000Gore+0.2
- 2004Kerry+0.4
- 2008Obama+13.9
- 2012Obama+6.9
- 2016Trump+0.8
- 2020Biden+0.6
- 2024Trump+0.9
Each box is one election: the winner in Wisconsin and the margin in points. Darker boxes were won by 10 points or more, lighter by under 5.
Election night
9 p.m. ET
Polls close at 9 p.m. ET (8 p.m. Central).
Also closing at 9 p.m. ET: AZ, CO, IA, LA, MN, NE, NM, NY, WY.
Times from the 2024 general election; states rarely change them, and they will be confirmed for 2028.
2028 ratings
- Toss-up Electoral Vote Map Sept. 27, 2026
In Congress
Senate
- Ron Johnson (R) since 2011
- Tammy Baldwin (D) since 2013
House: 6 Republicans, 2 Democrats
All 8 members
- 1 Bryan Steil (R)
- 2 Mark Pocan (D)
- 3 Derrick Van Orden (R)
- 4 Gwen Moore (D)
- 5 Scott Fitzgerald (R)
- 6 Glenn Grothman (R)
- 7 Thomas P. Tiffany (R)
- 8 Tony Wied (R)
From Congress.gov, as of Sept. 28, 2026. Vacant seats are not listed.
Margin by election
Wisconsin margin National popular vote
By county
Donald Trump won 59 of Wisconsin's 72 counties in 2024; Kamala Harris won 13.
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Largest counties, 2024
| County | Votes | Margin | Shift from 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milwaukee County | 928,214 | D+19.2 | →R 20.6 |
| Dane County | 731,858 | D+25.8 | →R 26.8 |
| Waukesha County | 551,574 | R+9.8 | →D 11.0 |
| Brown County | 298,666 | R+3.7 | →D 3.4 |
| Outagamie County | 223,864 | R+5.1 | →D 4.8 |
| Racine County | 215,372 | R+3.1 | →D 1.0 |
| Winnebago County | 190,742 | R+2.4 | →D 1.6 |
| Washington County | 182,814 | R+18.1 | →D 20.0 |
| Kenosha County | 181,360 | R+3.1 | 0.0 |
| Rock County | 176,620 | D+3.6 | →R 7.5 |
Biggest shifts from 2020 to 2024: toward the Republican, Menominee County (33.6), Dane County (26.8), Milwaukee County (20.6); toward the Democrat, Taylor County (22.4), Florence County (21.1), Washington County (20.0) — in points of margin.
County returns from the MIT Election Data and Science Lab (official state data), 2000–2024. Margin is the Democrat's share minus the Republican's, of all votes cast.
Results by year
| Year | Winner | Democrat | Republican | Other | Margin | Nation | Turnout | EV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Donald TrumpTrump | Harris 48.7%1,668,229 | Trump 49.6%1,697,626 | 1.7% | R+0.9 | R+1.5 | 76.7% | 10 |
| 2020 | Joe BidenBiden | Biden 49.5%1,630,866 | Trump 48.8%1,610,184 | 1.7% | D+0.6 | D+4.5 | 75.0% | 10 |
| 2016 | Donald TrumpTrump | Clinton 46.5%1,382,536 | Trump 47.2%1,405,284 | 6.3% | R+0.8 | D+2.1 | 69.9% | 10 |
| 2012 | Barack ObamaObama | Obama 52.8%1,620,985 | Romney 45.9%1,410,966 | 1.3% | D+6.9 | D+3.9 | 73.4% | 10 |
| 2008 | Barack ObamaObama | Obama 56.2%1,677,211 | McCain 42.3%1,262,393 | 1.5% | D+13.9 | D+7.3 | 72.7% | 10 |
| 2004 | John KerryKerry lost | Kerry 49.7%1,489,504 | Bush 49.3%1,478,120 | 1.0% | D+0.4 | R+2.5 | 75.5% | 10 |
| 2000 | Al GoreGore lost | Gore 48.0%1,242,987 | Bush 47.7%1,237,279 | 4.3% | D+0.2 | D+0.5 | 67.3% | 11 |
| 1996 | Bill ClintonClinton | Clinton 48.8%1,071,971 | Dole 38.5%845,029 | Perot 10.4% | D+10.3 | D+8.5 | 58.3% | 11 |
| 1992 | Bill ClintonClinton | Clinton 41.1%1,041,066 | Bush 36.8%930,855 | Perot 21.5% | D+4.4 | D+5.6 | 69.9% | 11 |
| 1988 | Michael DukakisDukakis lost | Dukakis 51.4%1,126,794 | Bush 47.8%1,047,499 | 0.8% | D+3.6 | R+7.7 | 62.8% | 11 |
| 1984 | Ronald ReaganReagan | Mondale 45.0%995,740 | Reagan 54.2%1,198,584 | 0.8% | R+9.2 | R+18.2 | 64.9% | 11 |
| 1980 | Ronald ReaganReagan | Carter 43.2%981,584 | Reagan 47.9%1,088,845 | Anderson 7.1% | R+4.7 | R+9.7 | 68.4% | 11 |
| 1976 | Jimmy CarterCarter | Carter 49.5%1,040,232 | Ford 47.8%1,004,987 | 2.7% | D+1.7 | D+2.1 | — | 11 |
| 1972 | Richard NixonNixon | McGovern 43.7% | Nixon 53.4% | 2.9% | R+9.7 | R+23.2 | — | 11 |
| 1968 | Richard NixonNixon | Humphrey 44.3% | Nixon 47.9% | Wallace 7.6% | R+3.6 | R+0.7 | — | 12 |
| 1964 | Lyndon B. JohnsonJohnson | Johnson 62.1% | Goldwater 37.7% | 0.2% | D+24.4 | D+22.6 | — | 12 |
| 1960 | Richard NixonNixon lost | Kennedy 48.1% | Nixon 51.8% | 0.2% | R+3.7 | D+0.2 | — | 12 |
Margin is the Democrat's share minus the Republican's, in percentage points; Nation is the same for the national popular vote. "Other" is everyone else combined, or the leading third-party candidate where one took 5% or more. Vote counts from 1976. Turnout is ballots cast as a share of eligible voters, from 1980 (UF Election Lab; the newest year is preliminary).
Electoral votes
Electoral votes change after each census, when House seats are reapportioned.
- 1219601950 census
- 121964–19681960 census
- 111972–19801970 census
- 111984–19881980 census
- 111992–20001990 census
- 102004–20082000 census
- 102012–20202010 census
- 102024–20282020 census
- 92032–2040projected
Projected: Wisconsin's share of House seats after the 2030 census if each state's population keeps changing at its pace since 2020, from the Census Bureau's 2024 American Community Survey population estimates (July 1, 2024). If the count were taken today it would have 10. An estimate, not a forecast.