 | |
| Number of elections | 45 |
|---|---|
| Voted Democratic | 18 |
| Voted Republican | 26 |
| Voted other | 1[a] |
| Voted for winning candidate | 34 |
| Voted for losing candidate | 10 |
SinceWisconsin'sadmission to the Union in May 1848,[1] it has participated in 44 U.S. presidential elections. In1924,Robert M. La Follette became the only third-party presidential candidate to win in Wisconsin, taking 53.96% of the popular vote. Since1988, Wisconsin has leaned towards theDemocratic Party in presidential elections, althoughRepublicanDonald Trump won the state by a margin of 0.77 percentage points. Wisconsin is tied withMichigan andPennsylvania for the longest active streak of voting for the winning candidate, last voting for a losing candidate in2004.
In the2020 presidential election, DemocratJoe Biden won Wisconsin, defeating Trump by 0.62 percentage points. During the2021 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 the2024 presidential election, Republican candidateDonald Trump won Wisconsin by 0.87 percentage points overKamala Harris.
| Key for parties |
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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) Southern Democratic Party – (SD) Straight-Out Democratic Party – (SOD) Whig Party – (W) Union Party – (U) |
| Year | Winner | Runner-up | Other candidate[b] | EV | Ref. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ofslavery, spurred the secession of eleven states and brought about theAmerican Civil War.
| Year | Winner | Runner-up | Other candidate | Other candidate | EV | Ref. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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[b] | EV | Ref. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 (Progressive Party (United States, 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% | Alfred Landon (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] | |||
| 2024 | Donald Trump (R) ‡ | 1,697,626 | 49.60% | Kamala Harris (D) | 1,668,229 | 48.74% | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (I) | 17,740 | 0.52% | 10 | ||||
