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The 2024 United States presidential election in Wisconsin took place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Wisconsin voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Wisconsin has 10 electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which the state neither gained nor lost a seat.[1]
A former Blue Wall state in the Upper Midwest partly located in the Rust Belt, Wisconsin is a clearly purple state today. In 2016, Donald Trump very narrowly won Wisconsin by 0.77% in his surprise sweep of the Midwest and Rust Belt, becoming the first Republican since Reagan in his 1984 landslide to win the state's electoral votes; but in 2020, Democrat Joe Biden flipped Wisconsin back into the Democratic column by an even more narrow 0.63%. Given the state's competitive electoral history coupled with its nearly even partisan lean, Wisconsin was considered to be a crucial battleground in 2024, with almost all major news organizations marking the state as a tossup.[2]
The Wisconsin Green Party has attained ballot access after not appearing in 2020.[3] Milwaukee is set to recount 34,000 ballots in the city due to a "human error" issue.[4]
This was the third consecutive election where Wisconsin was decided by less than one percentage point, the longest such streak for any state. The state had the closest presidential race of all states considering percentage of difference and second-closest margin regarding raw votes after New Hampshire, third-closest margin if Nebraska's 2nd congressional district is included. It also marked the first time since 1988 in which Wisconsin was the most Democratic-leaning of the three Rust Belt swing states (including Michigan and Pennsylvania). Trump’s victory made him the first Republican candidate to carry Wisconsin twice since Ronald Reagan did so in 1980 and 1984. He also received nearly 1.7 million votes which was a record for votes cast for a candidate in the history of the state.
Democratic U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin was reelected on the same ballot. This was the first time that Wisconsin voted for candidates of different political parties for U.S. senator and president since Democrat Gaylord Nelson was reelected as Republican Richard Nixon carried the state in 1968.
With this election, Door County lost its longstanding bellwether status by voting for the losing candidate for the first time since 1992. Trump is the first Republican to ever win without Door County. Despite her loss, this was Harris's best performance among the seven swing states, and unlike in 2016 or 2020, Wisconsin actually voted to the left of the country as a whole by slightly under one point (the victory margin for Trump was less than that of America as a whole). As of 2024, Wisconsin has together with Michigan and Pennsylvania, the longest-running active streak among states of voting for the winning presidential candidate, having done so in the latest five presidential elections.
- ^ Wang, Hansi; Jin, Connie; Levitt, Zach (April 26, 2021). "Here's How The 1st 2020 Census Results Changed Electoral College, House Seats". NPR. Archived from the original on August 19, 2021. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
- ^ "270toWin - 2024 Presidential Election Interactive Map". 270toWin.com. Retrieved March 8, 2024.
- ^ D'Andrea, Robert (February 9, 2024). "Green Party candidate will appear on Wisconsin's presidential ballot". WPR. Retrieved February 27, 2024.
- ^ Treisman, Rachel (November 5, 2024). "Milwaukee is recounting about 34,000 ballots due to human error". NPR. Retrieved November 6, 2024.