United States presidential elections in Wisconsin

Since Wisconsin's admission to the Union in May 1848,[1] it has participated in 44 U.S. presidential elections. In the 1924 presidential election, Robert M. La Follette became the only third-party presidential candidate to win in Wisconsin, with 53.96% of the popular vote. Since the 1988 presidential election, Wisconsin has leaned towards the Democratic Party in presidential elections, however, in 2016 the Republican Party's candidate Donald Trump won the state by a margin of 0.77%.

Presidential elections in Wisconsin
Map of the United States with Wisconsin highlighted
Number of elections44
Voted Democratic19
Voted Republican25
Voted other1[lower-alpha 1]
Voted for winning candidate34
Voted for losing candidate10

In the 2020 presidential election Joe Biden, the Democratic Party's candidate, won Wisconsin defeating the incumbent president Donald Trump by a close margin of 0.62%. During the 2021 joint session of the Congress for ascertaining the electoral votes 36 members objected to the certification of the electoral votes of Wisconsin based on unsupported claims of election fraud. The objection failed because it was not sponsored by a senator.[2]

Presidential Elections

Key for parties
  Constitution Party – (C)
  Democratic Party – (D)
  Free Soil Party – (FS)
  Green Party – (G)
  Greenback Party – (GB)
  Know Nothing Party – (KN)
  Libertarian Party – (LI)
  Progressive Party (1912) – (PR-1912)
  Progressive Party (1924) – (PR-1924)
  Progressive Party (1948) – (PR-1948)
  Prohibition Party – (PRO)
  Reform Party – (RE)
  Republican Party – (R)
  Whig Party – (W)
  Union Party – (U)
Note – A double dagger (double-dagger) indicates the national winner.

1848 to 1856

Presidential elections in Wisconsin from 1848 to 1856
Year Winner Runner-upOther candidate[lower-alpha 2] EV Ref.
Candidate Votes% Candidate Votes%Candidate Votes%
1848 Lewis Cass (D) 15,00138.30% Zachary Taylor (W) national winner 13,74735.10% Martin Van Buren (FS) 10,41826.60% 4 [3][4][5]
1852 Franklin Pierce (D) national winner 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) national winner 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
Year Winner Runner-upOther candidateOther candidate EV Ref.
Candidate Votes
(%)
Candidate Votes
(%)
Candidate Votes
(%)
Candidate Votes
(%)
1860 Abraham Lincoln (R) national winner 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
Year Winner Runner-upOther candidate[lower-alpha 2] EV Ref.
Candidate Votes% Candidate Votes%Candidate Votes%
1864 Abraham Lincoln (R) national winner 83,45855.88% George B. McClellan (D) 65,88444.12% 8 [11][12]
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) national winner 108,92056.25% Horatio Seymour (D) 84,70843.75% 8 [13][14]
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) national winner 105,01254.62% Horace Greeley (D) 86,39044.94% Charles O'Conor (SOD) 8530.44% 10 [15][16]
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) national winner 130,66850.69% Samuel Tilden (D) 123,92748.07% Peter Cooper (GB) 1,5090.59% 10 [17]
1880 James A. Garfield (R) national winner 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) national winner 146,44745.79% John P. St. John (PRO) 7,6512.39% 11 [20][21]
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) national winner 176,55349.79% Grover Cleveland (D) 155,23243.77% Clinton B. Fisk (PRO) 14,2774.03% 11 [22][23]
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) national winner 177,32547.73% Benjamin Harrison (R) 171,10146.06% John Bidwell (PRO) 13,1363.54% 12 [24][25]
1896 William McKinley (R) national winner 268,13559.93% William Jennings Bryan (D) 165,52337.00% Joshua Levering (PRO) 7,5071.68% 12 [26][27]
1900 William McKinley (R) national winner 265,76060.06% William Jennings Bryan (D) 159,16335.97% John G. Woolley (PRO) 10,0272.27% 12 [28][29]
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) national winner 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) national winner 247,74454.52% William Jennings Bryan (D) 166,66236.67% Eugene V. Debs (S) 28,1476.19% 13 [32][33]
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) national winner 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) national winner 191,36342.80% Allan L. Benson (S) 27,6316.18% 13 [36][37]
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) national winner 498,57671.10% James M. Cox (D) 113,42216.17% Eugene V. Debs (S) 80,63511.50% 13 [38][39]
1924 Robert LaFollette (PR-1924) 453,67853.96% Calvin Coolidge (R) national winner 311,61437.06% John W. Davis (D) 68,1158.10% 13 [40][41]
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) national winner 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) national winner 707,41063.46% Herbert Hoover (R) 347,74131.19% Norman M. Thomas (S) 53,3794.79% 12 [44][45]
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) national winner 802,98463.80% Herbert Hoover (R) 380,82830.26% William Lemke (Union) 60,2974.79% 12 [46][47]
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) national winner 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) national winner 650,41348.57% Norman M. Thomas (S) 13,2050.99% 12 [50][51]
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) national winner 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) national winner 979,74460.95% Adlai Stevenson (D) 622,17538.71% Vincent Hallinan (PR-1948) 2,1740.14% 12 [54][55]
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) national winner 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) national winner 830,80548.05% Farrell Dobbs (SWP) 1,7920.10% 12 [58][59]
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) national winner 1,050,42462.09% Barry Goldwater (D) 638,49537.74% Clifton DeBerry (SWP) 1,6920.10% 12 [60][61]
1968 Richard M. Nixon (R) national winner 809,99747.89% Hubert Humphrey (D) 748,80444.27% George Wallace (AI) 127,8357.56% 12 [62][63]
1972 Richard M. Nixon (R) national winner 989,43053.40% Sargent Shriver (D) 810,17443.72% John G. Schmitz (A) 47,5252.56% 11 [64][65]
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) national winner 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) national winner 1,088,84547.90% Jimmy Carter (D) 981,58443.18% John B. Anderson (I) 160,6577.07% 11 [68][69]
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) national winner 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) national winner 1,047,49947.80% Ron Paul (LI) 5,1570.24% 11 [72][73]
1992 Bill Clinton (D) national winner 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) national winner 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) national winner 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) national winner 1,478,12049.32% Ralph Nader (RE) 16,3900.55% 10 [80][81]
2008 Barack Obama (D) national winner 1,677,21156.22% John McCain (R) 1,262,39342.31% Ralph Nader (I) 17,6050.59% 10 [82][83]
2012 Barack Obama (D) national winner 1,620,98552.83% Mitt Romney (R) 1,407,96645.89% Gary Johnson (I) 20,4390.67% 10 [84]
2016 Donald Trump (R) national winner 1,405,28447.22% Hillary Clinton (D) 1,382,53646.45% Gary Johnson (LI) 106,6743.58% 10 [85]
2020 Joe Biden (D) national winner 1,630,86649.45% Donald Trump (R) 1,610,18448.82% Jo Jorgensen (LI) 38,4911.17% 10 [86]

Graph

See also

Note

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

References

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