Polls of Wisconsin in the lead-up to election day showed a clear Biden lead, averaging in the high single digits. Prior to election day, most news organizations considered that the state was leaning towards Biden. Wisconsin was ultimately won by Biden by a narrow 0.63% margin over Trump, a far closer margin than expected and the closest margin since 2004. Trump had won the state in 2016 by 0.77% against Hillary Clinton; however, Biden carried the state with a slightly larger margin than Al Gore or John Kerry did in either 2000 or 2004, respectively. Once again, Trump massively outperformed his polling average, which had Biden up 8.4 points in the state, but not enough to win the state. Trump held his own in counties in northern Wisconsin and also in the WOW counties.[5]
Biden won the highest vote share for a Democrat in Waukesha County, at 38.8%, since Jimmy Carter in 1976.[6] Trump carried Brown County, which is Republican-leaning but competitive, though Biden won the city of Green Bay and improved on Clinton's margin in the county at large by about 3.7 points.[7] Biden won back Sauk County, a county in the driftless region of southwestern Wisconsin; Biden also flipped Door County, which has voted for the winning candidate in each election since 1980, save for 1992.
On November 18, Trump announced that he would request a recount in Milwaukee County and Dane County.[8][9] On November 29, both counties re-affirmed Biden's victory, giving him a net gain of 87 votes over Trump.[10]
With Ohio, Florida, and Iowa backing the losing candidate for the first time since 1960, 1992, and 2000 respectively, this election established Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania as the states with the longest bellwether streak still in effect today. The last time any of them voted against the winning candidate was 2004, when all three voted for losing Democrat John Kerry.
Wisconsin voted 3.77% more Republican than the nation in general. This is the first time since 2004 that Wisconsin did not vote for the same candidate as neighboring Iowa.
Primary elections
Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, several states had delayed their scheduled primaries and extended the vote-by-mail period. Concerns were raised by health officials, poll workers, and voters that in-person voting at the height of the pandemic would be unsafe for vulnerable individuals.[11] Democratic Governor Tony Evers initially signed an executive order for all-mail-in election, but the order was rejected by the Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature.[12]
On April 2, although U.S. District Judge William M. Conley refused to postpone the election, he extended the deadline for absentee voting to April 13 (ordering clerks not to release any election data before that date).[13][14] However, on April 6, the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Conley's decision, meaning that all absentee ballots still had to be postmarked by "election day, Tuesday, April 7" even though it was still acceptable for the ballots to be received by the clerks as late as April 13.[15][16] The Supreme Court of the United States "did not alter the provision in Conley's amended order which prohibits the reporting of results until April 13".[17]
Governor Evers then called a special session of the legislature to postpone in-person voting, but the session ended within minutes without action, forcing the primary to go on as planned.[18] Despite having previously expressed the view that he would violate the law by doing so,[19] on April 6, Evers issued an executive order which, if enforced, would have postponed the April 7 elections until the tentative date of June 9.[20][21] Republican leaders immediately announced that they would challenge the order in the Wisconsin Supreme Court.[20] The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that Evers did not have the authority to postpone the elections, thus meaning that Evers' executive order was nullified, and that the elections would be held as scheduled on April 7.[22] This was appealed to a federal court who sided with the governor, and that was appealed to the US Supreme Court, which on a 5–4 vote, upheld the state court's ruling.[23]
Voting was somewhat chaotic, with people waiting in the rain for hours in some cases in masks and social distancing.[24] However, by the time the election concluded, Milwaukee Election Commissioner Neil Albrecht stated that despite some of the problems, the in-person voting ran smoothly.[25]
In August 2020, the bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission voted to keep rapper Kanye West, an independent presidential candidate, off of the 2020 general election ballot in a 5–1 decision on the basis that West's application arrived too late—arriving in person seconds after the deadline.[44]
The commission was split along party lines in a 3–3 decision to keep Howie Hawkins, the Green Party presidential candidate off of the 2020 general election ballot.[45] Hawkins gathered 3,623 valid signatures; however, forms with 1,834 signatures had a different address for Hawkins' running mate Angela Walker. The partisan board voted only to certify the 1,789, placing Hawkins/Walker below the 2,000 signatures required to be on the ballot.[46]
Walker subsequently filed a legal petition to be included on the ballot. On September 10, 2020, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that the election officials had to wait to mail absentee ballots until the court decided whether or not to include the Green Party on the ballot. Some municipal election commissions had already mailed out absentee ballots while others were concerned that they would miss the September 17 deadline by which Wisconsin state law required absentee ballots to mailed out to those who requested them.[47] On September 14, 2020, the court ruled that the ballots would remain as-is without Hawkins or West on the ballot stating, "given their delay in asserting their rights, we would be unable to provide meaningful relief without completely upsetting the election."[48]
Electoral slates
These slates of electors were nominated by each party in order to vote in the Electoral College if their candidates win the state:[49]
Results
Municipal results
Map legend
Biden—40–50%
Biden—50–60%
Biden—60–70%
Biden—70–80%
Biden—80–90%
Biden—90–100%
Trump–40–50%
Trump–50–60%
Trump–60–70%
Trump–70–80%
Trump–80–90%
Trump–90–100%
Tie
No Vote
Between 2016 and 2020, the number of voters in Milwaukee suburban counties voting for the Democratic presidential candidate increased.[51]
By county
Swing by county
Legend
Democratic — +7.5–10%
Democratic — +5–7.5%
Democratic — +2.5–5%
Democratic — +0–2.5%
Republican — +0–2.5%
Republican — +2.5–5%
Republican — +5–7.5%
Trend relative to the state by county
Legend
Democratic — +7.5–10%
Democratic — +5–7.5%
Democratic — +2.5–5%
Democratic — +0–2.5%
Republican — +0–2.5%
Republican — +2.5–5%
Republican — +5–7.5%
County flips
Legend
Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic
Despite narrowly losing, Trump won 6 out of 8 congressional districts in Wisconsin, including one held by a Democrat.
Analysis
Prior to the 2016 election, Wisconsin was considered part of the blue wall--the group of states that had voted Democratic in every presidential election from at least 1992 on. Wisconsin itself had voted Democratic in every election from 1988 on, having been one of 10 states that supported Michael Dukakis in 1988. Republicans had scored notable statewide victories over the Obama presidency, with Scott Walker having won election and re-election as Governor and having fought off a recall attempt in 2012, and with Ron Johnson having defeated Russ Feingold in the 2010 Senate election. Nevertheless, Wisconsin was seen as a lean-Democratic state given its presidential voting history. Trump pulled off a surprise win in the state in 2016, in large part due to a collapse in support for Hillary Clinton in the state.[52][53]
In 2020, both Trump and Biden improved their parties' vote shares in Wisconsin. Trump achieved a record for the total number of votes ever received by a Republican presidential nominee in Wisconsin, although he fell short of George W. Bush's 2004 vote share. Biden improved on Hillary Clinton's number of votes received, as he did in every state, but fell short of the number of votes won by Barack Obama in 2008.
Joe Biden received strong support in the city of Milwaukee, improving on Clinton's 2016 performance by 3.6 points in its county; Biden received 92% and 60% of the black and Latino vote respectively, with most of that electorate living in Milwaukee County. Both candidates performed well in the state with whites, with Trump carrying whites overall by 6 points, though Biden performed better with college-educated whites. Cementing Biden's victory was his strong performance in Dane County, which he carried by nearly 53 points. Biden would also carry La Crosse County by 13 points, Eau Claire County by 10 points, and flipped Sauk County and the bellwether Door County, while only losing Brown County by seven points, winning the county seat Green Bay. Biden even made in-roads in Waukesha and Washington counties, nearly breaking 40% in the former and breaking 30% in the latter, though Trump still held these counties with large margins.[54]
On the other hand, Trump was able to hold much of the Driftless region in southwestern Wisconsin; many of these counties, such as Vernon, Crawford, and Grant were reliably Democratic during the latter half of the 20th century, but Trump maintained his results from 2016, solidifying a Republican shift in this part of the state. Additionally, Trump performed strongly in the more traditionally conservative northern counties of Wisconsin. Finally, Trump kept Kenosha County in his column, with both candidates improving there; Kenosha County is significant, as it was the site of the Jacob Blake shooting, which triggered nationwide protests.[55]
Biden became the first Democrat to win the White House without the once-strongly Democratic counties of Kenosha and Forest since Woodrow Wilson in 1916 as well as the first to win without Pepin County since 1944. He was the first Democrat since 1960 to win without Adams, Buffalo, Crawford, Dunn, Jackson, Juneau, Lincoln, Price, Sawyer, and Trempealeau counties; and the first since 1976 to win without Columbia, Grant, Lafayette, Marquette, Racine, Richland, and Vernon counties. In terms of partisan lean, Biden was able to win 7% of Republicans in the state, which is significant, as they voted in this cycle by about 5 points more than Democrats. More importantly, Biden won independent voters by 12 points; Hillary Clinton lost this bloc to Trump by 10 points in 2016.
Pivot counties
Wisconsin is a state with a notable number of pivot counties, meaning counties carried by Obama in the 2008 and 2012 U.S. presidential elections that then flipped for the Republican candidate, Trump, in 2016.[56] Of Wisconsin's 72 counties, about one-third (N=23, 32%) are considered to be pivot counties, and pivot counties include 17.35 percent of the state population.[57] Lists of Wisconsin pivot counties a) retained by the Republican presidential candidate in 2020 (Trump) and b) boomerang counties "returning" to the Democratic presidential candidate in 2020 (Biden) are below.[58]
Retained pivot counties (remained Republican in 2020)
Boomerang pivot counties (returned to Democrat in 2020)
On November 6, Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien said: "There have been reports of irregularities in several Wisconsin counties which raise serious doubts about the validity of the results." No evidence of such "irregularities" has been provided by the Trump campaign.[60][61]
On November 18, the Trump campaign wired nearly $3 million to the Wisconsin Election Commission in a petition for a partial recount of the 2020 presidential election results. The recount would take place in Milwaukee and Dane counties. "These two counties were selected because they are the locations of the worst irregularities," the campaign claimed in a release.[62]
Milwaukee certified its recount results on November 27, 2020, and led to Joe Biden gaining a net 132 votes. Dane certified its recount results on November 29, 2020, and led to Donald Trump gaining a net 45 votes. In total, the recount across the two counties led to Joe Biden increasing his lead by an additional 87 votes.[63]
^Calculated by taking the difference of 100% and all other candidates combined.
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m nKey: A – all adults RV – registered voters LV – likely voters V – unclear
^Overlapping sample with the previous SurveyMonkey/Axios poll, but more information available regarding sample size
^ a b c"Someone else" with 1%
^ a b c d eStandard VI response
^"Some other candidate" with 2%; West (B) and would not vote with 0%
^ a b c dIf only Biden, Trump and "some other candidate" were available
^ a b c d"Some other candidate" with 2%; would not vote with 0%
^Results considering those who lean towards a given candidate among those initially predisposed towards abstention, indecision or a candidate besides Biden or Trump in the response section immediately above
^"Some other candidate" with 2%
^"Other" and "Refused/would not vote" with 1%
^ a bWith voters who lean towards a given candidate
^ a b c d e f"Someone else" with 2%
^"None of these" and "Other" with 0%
^"Someone else" with 1%; would not vote with 0%
^ a b c d e f g h iIncludes "Refused"
^ a b"Some other candidate" with 1%; West (B) and would not vote with 0%
^"Refused" with 6%; "None/other" with 1%; Did not vote with 0%
^"None of these" with 1%; "Other" with 0%; would not vote with no voters
^Includes Undecided
^"Other" with 1%; would not vote with no voters
^ a b c"Some other candidate" with 3%
^Results generated with high Democratic turnout model
^Results generated with high Republican turnout model
^"Refused" with 2%; "Other" with 1%
^ a b c d e f gAdditional data sourced from FiveThirtyEight
^"Some other candidate" with 2%; West (B) with 1%; would not vote with 0%
^ a b"Some other candidate" with 3%; would not vote with 0%
^ a b"Someone else/third party" with 3%
^"Someone else" and would not vote with 0%
^ a b"Another candidate" with 1%
^ a b"Another Third Party/Write-in" with 1%
^"None/other" with 2%; "refused" with 5%
^"None/other" and "refused" with 1%
^ a b"Another Party Candidate" with 2%
^ a b"Another Third Party/Write-in" with 0%
^Overlapping sample with the previous Morning Consult poll, but more information available regarding sampling period
^"None of these" with 1%; "Other" with 0%
^"Neither" with 1%; "Other" and would not vote with 0%
^"Someone else" and would not vote with 1%
^"Someone else" with 4%
^Would not vote with 1%
^"Other/not sure" with 6%
^"Someone else/third party" with 2%
^"Refused" with 2%; "None/other" with 0%
^"Someone else" with 3%
^"Other" with 1%
^"Other" and would not vote with 1%
^"Another Party Candidate"
^"Another Third Party/Write-in" and West (B) with 1%
^Overlapping sample with the previous Morning Consult poll, but more information available regarding third party and undecided voters
^ a b c"Neither" with 2%; "refused" with 1%
^"Other" with 3%; would not vote with 1%
^West (B) with 2%; "Another Third Party/Write-In" 1%
^"Other candidate" with 2%
^"Other party candidate" with 8%
^"Other" with 2%
^"Another candidate" with 3%; would not vote with 2%
^"Libertarian Party candidate/Green Party candidate" with 5%
^"Other" with 4%; would not vote with 2%
^"Third party/write-in" with 3%
^ a b c d e f g h i"Neither" with 3%; "Refused" with 1%
^"Other" with 5%; would not vote with 1%
^ a b c"Neither" with 4%; "Refused" with 0%
^ a b c"Someone else" with 1%; would not vote with 3%
^ a b"Other" with 6%; would not vote with 2%
^"Neither" with 1%; "refused" with 1%
^ a b c dA third party candidate with 6%; would not vote with 2%
^ a b c d e f"Neither" with 4%; "refused" with 1%
^ a b c"Neither" with 3%; "refused" with 0%
^ a b c d"Neither" with 5%; "refused" with 1%
^"Someone else" with 2%; would not vote with 3%
^A third party candidate with 8%; would not vote with 2%
^ a b"Neither" with 3%; "refused" with 2%
^ a b"Someone else" with 1%; would not vote with 4%
^"Other" with 7%; would not vote with 3%
^"Neither" with 2%; "refused" with 2%
^"Neither" with 5%; "refused" with 2%
^"Neither" with 5%; "refused" with 0%
^"Other" with 7%; would not vote with 2%
^"Other" with 6%; would not vote with 3%
^ a bFigures for each candidate in this poll include undecided voters who were reported to lean towards that candidate at the time of polling.
^"It depends on who the Democrats nominate" with 1.9%; "unsure" with 0.9%
^"Third-party candidate" with 3%
^ a b"Would probably or definitely vote for someone other than Trump" with 57%
^ a b"Refused" with 0%
^Listed as "unlikely to vote for Trump" as opposed to "likely to vote for Trump"
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