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{{PresHead|place=Wisconsin|whig=yes|source=<ref>{{cite web|url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/compare.php?year=2008&fips=55&f=1&off=0&elect=0&type=state|title=Presidential General Election Results Comparison – Wisconsin|publisher=US Election Atlas|access-date=October 26, 2022|author=Leip, David}}</ref>}}
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{{PresRow|1852|Democratic|22,210|33,658|8,814|Wisconsin}}
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=== Pre-1960s ===
Apart from its first two presidential elections as a state, Wisconsin was heavily Republican throughout the entirety of the late 1800s and into the early 1900s - voting Democratic in presidential elections only 1892, 1912, 1948, and for Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1856 to 1960.
=== 1960-1999 ===
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=== 21st Century ===
[[File:Wisconsin Presidential Election Results 2020.svg|left|thumb|Wisconsin's presidential election in 2020 by
After turning towards the Democrats in the 1980s and 1990s, Wisconsin's elections drastically narrowed in [[2000 United States presidential election|2000]] and [[2004 United States presidential election|2004]] - though it stayed with the Democratic candidates, in neither election did the Democratic candidate win by more than one percent of the vote. Democrats did perform better in Wisconsin with [[Barack Obama|Obama]] - he received 56.2 and 52.8 percent of the vote in [[2008 United States presidential election|2008]] and [[2012 United States presidential election|2012]] respectively. That said, Republicans made large gains in Wisconsin throughout the early 2010s. [[Ron Johnson]], a Republican, was elected as a senator and remains in office to this day - and the United States members House of Representatives from Wisconsin have been majority Republican since then as well. In addition, Wisconsin elected Governor [[Scott Walker (politician)|Scott Walker]] in [[2010 Wisconsin gubernatorial election|2010]] - a Republican. In [[2016 United States presidential election|the 2016 presidential election]], Wisconsin flipped Republican and voted for [[Donald Trump]] over [[Hillary Clinton]] by a close margin - meaning that Wisconsin was still a swing state on the presidential level. Democrats had positive elections there in [[2018 United States elections|2018]], re-electing a Democratic Senator, and electing [[Tony Evers]], a Democrat, to the governorship - but Republicans still held on to the House of Representatives from Wisconsin and the state legislature. In 2020, the state held one of the closest presidential elections in the country - it flipped Democratic for [[Joe Biden|Biden]] by less than a percent. In 2022, Republican Senator Johnson and Democratic Governor Evers were simultaneously re-elected, again showing the state's close political status. Wisconsin as of today is one of the nation's most contested swing states.
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*[[Political party strength in Wisconsin]]
*[[Recall elections in Wisconsin]]
*Election Administration agencies
**[[Wisconsin Government Accountability Board]]
**[[Wisconsin Elections Commission]]
*[[Women's suffrage in Wisconsin]]
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[[Category:Government of Wisconsin]]
[[Category:Political events in Wisconsin]]
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