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Additionally, left-leaning Portage County (which contains the city of Stevens Point) was removed from the 7th and added to the 3rd during the hotly contested 2013 redistricting. Since these shifts, the rural 7th has surpassed the suburban 5th as the most Republican district in Wisconsin.
The WOW counties as a collective have voted for 20 of the 21 most recent Republican presidential campaigns, and in the most recent election that the Democratic Party took the region, Barry Goldwater lost by about 6.5% in an election where he lost Wisconsin by a margin of roughly 24.3%. [15]
Iowa County was formed in 1829 from the Crawford County land south of the Wisconsin River. [1] Brown County's southern portion was used to form Milwaukee County in 1834. [1] The state of Wisconsin was created from Wisconsin Territory on May 29, 1848, with 28 counties. The most populous county in the state is Milwaukee County at 916,205 people ...
Wisconsin is currently divided into 8 congressional districts, each represented by a member of the United States House of Representatives. After the 2020 census, the number of Wisconsin's seats remained unchanged. Wisconsin’s congressional districts are an example of partisan gerrymandering, in this case in favor of the Republican Party.
But Waukesha County, which propelled Republican Scott Walker to the governorship in 2010, ushering in a period of right-wing ascendancy, was a fitting final location for a presidential campaign ...
Biden won the state by less than 21,000 votes in 2020, although Trump won Waukesha County — the third-most populous in Wisconsin — with nearly 60% of the vote at the time.
The 5th District was the only district in Wisconsin that John McCain won in 2008, giving 57.73% of the vote to McCain and 41.28% to Barack Obama. In 2024, Donald Trump carried the district with 60.24% of the vote, the second most only behind the 7th district. [3] For most of the 20th century, the 5th District was a Milwaukee-based district.
Waukesha County sign on WIS 59. Waukesha County (/ ˈ w ɔː k ɪ ʃ ɔː / ⓘ) is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 406,978, making it the third-most populous county in Wisconsin.