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1956 United States presidential election in Wisconsin


The 1956 United States presidential election in Wisconsin was held on November 6, 1956. Wisconsin voters chose twelve electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Republican Party candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower won the state with 62% of the popular vote, winning Wisconsin's twelve electoral votes. , this is the last election in which Portage County, Ashland County, Milwaukee County, and Dane County voted for the Republican candidate. This is also the last election as of 2016 that the Republican won the state by
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2002 Wisconsin gubernatorial election


The Wisconsin gubernatorial election of 2002 was held on November 5, 2002. Incumbent Republican Governor of Wisconsin Scott McCallum, who had assumed office upon the resignation of Tommy Thompson, ran for his first full term in office. McCallum won his party's nomination by defeating two minor candidates, and Attorney General of Wisconsin Jim Doyle won the Democratic primary with a little more than a third of the vote in a highly competitive primary election. In the general election, the presence of Ed Thompson, former Governor Tommy Thompson's younger brother
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2004 United States Senate election in Wisconsin


The 2004 United States Senate election in Wisconsin was held November 2, 2004. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Russ Feingold won re-election to a third term. As of 2019, this is the last time the Democrats have won the Class 3 Senate Seat from Wisconsin. Michels insisted he has more real world experience than Feingold, someone he called an "extreme liberal" who's out of touch with Wisconsin voters. Feingold attacked back by saying that any Republican would be a rubber stamp for President Bush. The incumbent had $
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2012 United States Senate election in Wisconsin


nominee was former governor of Wisconsin and former Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson, who won with a plurality in a four-way race. In the general election, Baldwin defeated Thompson and won the open seat. She became the first woman elected to represent Wisconsin in the Senate and the first openly gay U.S. Senator in history. This is also the only time Thompson lost a statewide race. Incumbent Democratic senator Herb Kohl was re-elected to a fourth term in 2006, beating Republican attorney Robert Lorge by 67
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Wisconsin Green Party


first time, as did Eric Krszjzaniek (Portage County) who won a recount of write-in votes with an original 5-7 loss turning into an 8-3 win. On April 3, 2007 a further seven out of 14 Green Party candidates running for office won their elections throughout Wisconsin. This brought the total number of elected Greens in Wisconsin to twenty-two. The Wisconsin Green Party's headquarters are in Madison. Since 1996, the national Green Party has run a candidate for President of the United States
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1980 United States presidential election in Wisconsin


The 1980 United States presidential election in Wisconsin took place on November 4, 1980. All 50 states and The District of Columbia, were part of the 1980 United States presidential election. Wisconsin voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Wisconsin was won by Ronald Reagan of California, who was running against incumbent United States President Jimmy Carter of Georgia. Reagan ran with former C.I.A. Director George H. W. Bush of Texas, Carter ran for a second time with Representative Walter Mondale of Minnesota
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2014 Wisconsin gubernatorial election


The 2014 Wisconsin gubernatorial election took place on November 4, 2014, to determine the governor and lieutenant governor of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It occurred concurrently with elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Republican Governor Scott Walker won re-election to a second term in office, defeating Democratic businesswoman and Madison school board member Mary Burke and two minor party candidates in the general election. Walker, who was elected in 2010,
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Duma of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug


determined by a combination of first-past-the-post voting and party-list proportional representation, in what is known as the parallel voting system. The duma also internally elects a legislative representative to the Federation Council, which is the upper house of Russia's legislative branch. The executive branch of Chukotka works closely with the duma. The executive branch is also known as the government of Chukotka and is headed by the governor, who is the highest-ranking person in the okrug. The govenor is not to be
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2000 United States presidential election in Wisconsin


The 2000 United States presidential election in Wisconsin took place on November 7, 2000, and was part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose 11 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Wisconsin was won by Vice President Al Gore by a slim 0.22% margin of victory, a mere difference of 5,708 votes. This was the first time since 1988, and only the second time since 1960 that Wisconsin did not vote for the overall winner of a presidential election.
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2018 Wisconsin elections


a majority of the state’s U.S. House seats. Incumbent Democrat Tammy Baldwin, first elected in 2012, won re-election to a second term by a 11 percentage point margin against Republican challenger Leah Vukmir. This was the widest margin of victory won by a statewide candidate in Wisconsin’s 2018 elections, and marked the widest margin won by a U.S. Senate candidate in Wisconsin since Herb Kohl’s landslide victory in the 2006 election. All 8 of Wisconsin's congressional districts were up for election in November. Seven incumbents ran for
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Luther Olsen


Wisconsin Senate and re-election 2008. His current Senate district is much more conservative than the state as a whole. In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama narrowly won with 52%, while he won statewide with 57%. In the 2010 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, Republican Scott Walker won with 57%, while he won statewide with 53%. In the 2011 Wisconsin judicial election, Republican David Prosser won the district with 55%, while winning statewide with just 50%. Olsen was the target of an
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1988 United States presidential election in Wisconsin


The 1988 United States presidential election in Wisconsin took place on November 8, 1988. All 50 states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1988 United States presidential election. Wisconsin voters chose 11 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. Wisconsin was won by Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis who was running against incumbent United States Vice President George H. W. Bush of Texas. Dukakis ran with Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen as Vice President, and Bush ran with Indiana Senator Dan Quayle. Wisconsin weighed in
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1994 Wisconsin gubernatorial election


The 1994 gubernatorial election in Wisconsin was held on November 8, 1994. In the midst of the Republican Revolution, incumbent Republican governor Tommy Thompson won the election with a landslide 67% of the vote, winning a third term as Governor of Wisconsin. Thompson won 71 of Wisconsin's 72 counties, only losing Menominee County. To date, this is the latest gubernatorial election in which Dane County (containing Wisconsin’s capital of Madison), as well as Ashland, Bayfield, and Douglas counties voted for the Republican candidate.
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Afua Kobi


would not seek throne, meaning he would give up his chances in becoming a candidate to the Asante throne. In 1867, Kofi was elected to the Golden Stool after the executions and the other candidates being exiled. Even though Kofi was supported by those who recommended the war with the British, His position regarding on handling the British colonialism remained unclear. His Mother, in her position as the "asantehemaa," she took action, and in 1872, this was her response to the British govenor "I am only a
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2004 United States presidential election in Wisconsin


The 2004 United States presidential election in Wisconsin took place on November 2, 2004, and was part of the 2004 United States presidential election. Voters chose 10 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Wisconsin was won by Democratic nominee John Kerry by a 0.4% margin of victory. Prior to the election, most news organizations considered this a toss-up, or swing state. The state had similar demographics and was a showdown state just like its bordering states: Michigan,
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2008 United States presidential election in Wisconsin


The 2008 United States presidential election in Wisconsin took place on November 4, 2008, and was part of the 2008 United States presidential election. Voters chose 10 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Wisconsin was won by Democratic nominee Barack Obama by a 13.91% margin of victory. Prior to the election, all 17 news organizations considered this a state Obama would win, or otherwise considered as a safe blue state, despite the extremely close margins of victory in the previous two
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1984 United States presidential election in Wisconsin


The 1984 United States presidential election in Wisconsin took place on November 6, 1984. All 50 states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1984 United States presidential election. Wisconsin voters chose 11 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president of the United States. Wisconsin was won by incumbent United States President Ronald Reagan of California, who was running against former Vice President Walter Mondale of Minnesota. Reagan ran for a second time with incumbent Vice President and former C.I.A. Director George H. W. Bush
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1972 United States presidential election in Wisconsin


The 1972 United States presidential election in Wisconsin was held on November 7, 1972. Incumbent President Nixon won the state of Wisconsin with 53 percent of the vote, carrying the state’s eleven electoral votes, although Wisconsin was the fifth most Democratic state during the election, voting 6.74 percent more Democratic than the nation as a whole. In no other election since the emergence of the Republican Party has Wisconsin voted so much more Democratic than the country as a whole. McGovern won seven counties (out of 131 county-equivalents including
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History of Georgia (U.S. state)


"White Evangelical/Born-Again," and they voted 89% for Republican John McCain. The other 63% voted two-to-one for Democrat Barack Obama, the first African American to be elected as President. He was re-elected in 2012. In the 2018 elections, the Govenor remained a Republican (by just 17,488 votes against a black female, Stacey Abrams), Republicans lost eight seats in the Georgia House of Representatives (winning 106), while Democrats gained ten (winning 74),
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Adam Neylon


Wisconsin. In 2014 and 2016, Neylon ran for re-election and won. Neylon lives in Pewaukee, Wisconsin with his wife Hannah and their daughter Elizabeth Grace and son Thomas Robert. In his first run for elected office, Neylon won a special election Republican primary for the 98th Assembly District in Wisconsin on February 19, 2013. He ran unopposed in the general election. After the election, the conservative website Right Wisconsin said Neylon was poised to become a rising star in Madison. During the 2013-15 state budget
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is now a state park. Between 1848 and 1862, Wisconsin had three Democratic governors, all of whom were in office prior to 1856, four Republican governors, all of whom were in office after 1856, and one Whig governor, Leonard J. Farwell, who served from 1852 to 1854. Under Farwell's governorship, Wisconsin became the second state to abolish capital punishment. In the presidential elections of 1848 and 1852, the Democratic Party won Wisconsin. In the elections of 1856, 1860, and 1864, the Republican Party
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Jeff Fitzgerald


Fitzgerald attended University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and received his bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. He was a small business owner and served on the Beaver Dam, Wisconsin Common Council 2000-03. He is a member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He was elected in 2000. In 2002, he won re-election unopposed. In 2004, he won re-election a third term with 70% of the vote. In 2006, he won re-election to a fourth term with 63
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2016 Wisconsin elections


The Wisconsin general elections, 2016 were held in the U.S. state of Wisconsin on November 8, 2016. One of Wisconsin's U.S. Senate seats and all eight seats in the United States House of Representatives are up for election, as well as half of the Wisconsin Senate seats and all of the Wisconsin Assembly seats. Primary elections were held on August 9, 2016. The Wisconsin Republican Party made large gains in the 2016 election. Businessman and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump won Wisconsin in an upset, becoming the first Republican to
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2006 Wisconsin gubernatorial election


The Wisconsin gubernatorial election of 2006 was held on November 7, 2006. Incumbent Democratic Governor of Wisconsin Jim Doyle ran for a second term as governor. Doyle was unopposed in his party's primary, and he faced United States Representative Mark Green, who won the Republican Party primary unopposed, in the general election. The campaign between Doyle and Green was competitive and hotly contested, but Doyle, whose approval ratings hovered around 50%, had the upper hand. In the end, Doyle defeated Green by a fairly comfortable margin
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1996 United States presidential election in Wisconsin


The 1996 United States presidential election in Wisconsin took place on November 5, 1996, as part of the 1996 United States presidential election. Voters chose 11 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Wisconsin was won by President Bill Clinton (D) over Senator Bob Dole (R-KS), with Clinton winning by 48.81 percent to 38.48 percent, or a margin of 10.33 percent. Billionaire businessman Ross Perot (Reform Party of the United States of America-TX) finished
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1992 United States presidential election in Wisconsin


The 1992 United States presidential election in Wisconsin took place on November 3, 1992, as part of the 1992 United States presidential election. Voters chose eleven representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Wisconsin was won by Governor Bill Clinton (D-Arkansas) with 41.13% of the popular vote over incumbent President George H.W. Bush (R-Texas) with 36.78%. Businessman Ross Perot (I-Texas) finished in third, with 21.51% of the popular vote.
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2016 United States presidential election in Wisconsin


in either party's primary regardless of their own party affiliation. Bernie Sanders prevailed in Wisconsin's Democratic primary, while Ted Cruz won Wisconsin's Republican primary. In the general election, Donald Trump unexpectedly won Wisconsin by a narrow margin of 0.77%, with 47.22% of the total votes over the 46.45% of Hillary Clinton. Wisconsin was the tipping-point state of the 2016 election; that is, when the state was called for Trump, its 10 Electoral College votes brought Trump's electoral vote total to 270 (
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2008 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin


Republicans. That remained unchanged after the 2008 congressional elections in Wisconsin as all incumbent candidate won re-election, although "CQ Politics" had forecasted Wisconsin's 8 district to be at some risk for the incumbent party. As of 2016, this is the last time that Democrats won a majority of congressional districts from Wisconsin. In this relatively moderate district in southeast Wisconsin, incumbent Republican Congressman Paul Ryan has enjoyed popularity and faced no serious challenge from Democratic nominee, Marge Krupp, a chemist. Despite Barack Obama's strong performance
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1916 Wisconsin gubernatorial election


The 1916 gubernatorial election in Wisconsin was held on November 7, 1916. Republican candidate Emanuel Lorenz Philipp won the election with 52% of the vote, winning his second term as Governor of Wisconsin and he won the highest number of votes in his gubernatorial campaigns due to the obscurity of his opponents. Philipp defeated Democratic Party candidate Burt Williams, Socialist candidate Rae Weaver and Prohibition Party candidate George McKerrow. ! colspan="7" | Gubernatorial election in Wisconsin, 1916 ! colspan="2" style="width: 15em" |Party ! style="width: 10em" |Candidate
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2006 United States Senate election in Wisconsin


The 2006 United States Senate election in Wisconsin was held November 7, 2006. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Herb Kohl won re-election to a fourth term in a landslide. Kohl won every county in the state. Kohl's weakest performance in the state was suburban Washington County, Wisconsin, which Kohl won with just 49.6%. Kohl's strongest performance was in rural Menominee County, where he won with over 90% of the vote. Vogeler's best performance was in Dane County, where she came in third place with
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Wisconsin's 8th congressional district


won 55% of the vote in the district, while in 2008, Democrat Barack Obama received 53.6% of the vote. The last Democrat to represent the district was Steve Kagen from 2007 to 2011. Since Kagen lost in the 2010 election, the seat has been held by Republicans, who have consistently won it by double digit percent margins in each election to the seat since 2012. Since the 1970s, the district has encompassed the northeastern part of Wisconsin, including cities such as Green Bay and Appleton, the peninsula of
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A. Warren Phelps


U.S. state of Wisconsin, which secured the election for two years of William Robert Taylor as Governor of Wisconsin, as well as electing a number of state legislators. Phelps polled 706 votes to 602 for Republican L. A. Proctor; Democratic incumbent Gottlob E. Weiss, who had won the seat the year before by one vote, was not a candidate for re-election. He was assigned to, and chaired, the standing committee on internal improvements. He sought re-election in 1874 as a Democrat, but came in third
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Ben Wikler


Benjamin McDonald Wikler (born February 3, 1981) is an American politician who was elected on June 2, 2019 as the chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. Wikler is a former Senior Advisor at MoveOn.org. On February 21, 2019, he announced his campaign to run for chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. Wikler grew up in Madison, Wisconsin, where he cofounded "The Yellow Press", a student-run newspaper. While a student, he won election to the student senate and launched Students United
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1865 Wisconsin gubernatorial election


The 1865 gubernatorial election in Wisconsin was held on November 7, 1865. Republican Party candidate Lucius Fairchild won the election with nearly 55% of the vote, defeating Democratic candidate Harrison Carroll Hobart. The incumbent Governor, James T. Lewis, refused nomination for re-election. American Civil War had concluded just a few months before this election was held; both major party candidates in this election were retired Brigadier Generals who had served with distinction in the war. Harrison Carroll Hobart had served as a Union Army officer through the entire
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1988 United States presidential election in Wisconsin


for this election as 12% more Democratic than the national average. , this is the last election in which Green County voted for the Republican candidate. This was also the first time since 1960 that Wisconsin would back the losing candidate in a presidential election. The presidential election of 1988 was a very partisan election for Wisconsin, with over 99% of the electorate voting for either the Republican or Democratic parties. Dukakis won the election in Wisconsin with a 4-point margin. The state has since consistently voted for the Democratic Party,
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1848 Wisconsin gubernatorial election


The 1848 gubernatorial election in Wisconsin was held on May 8, 1848. This was the election for the first Governor of Wisconsin, as it was held concurrent with a public referendum to ratify the Constitution of Wisconsin. Democrat Nelson Dewey, of Grant County, won the election with nearly 56% of the vote. Dewey defeated Whig Party candidate John Hubbard Tweedy, of Milwaukee. Nelson Dewey was a prominent lawyer and real-estate investor in Grant County, Wisconsin. He did extensive business with the lead-mining industry,
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1861 Wisconsin gubernatorial election


The 1861 gubernatorial election in Wisconsin was held on November 5, 1861. Republican Party candidate Louis P. Harvey won the election with 54% of the vote, defeating Democratic candidate Benjamin Ferguson. Incumbent Governor Alexander Randall's political position had deteriorated and he chose not to seek re-election to a third term. Wisconsin was also experiencing economic depression, the results of the Panic of 1857. Most significantly, this was the first Wisconsin gubernatorial election to take place after the outbreak of the American Civil War, and Wisconsin Republicans reorganized
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1849 Wisconsin gubernatorial election


The 1849 gubernatorial election in Wisconsin was held on November 6, 1849. Democrat Nelson Dewey won the election with 52% of the vote, winning his second term as Governor of Wisconsin. Dewey defeated Whig Party candidate Alexander L. Collins and Free Soil Party candidate Warren Chase. This was the second Wisconsin gubernatorial election, and the first election for a full two-year gubernatorial term. Nelson Dewey was the incumbent governor, having been elected in the 1848 election. He was a prominent lawyer and real-estate investor in Grant
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1863 Wisconsin gubernatorial election


The 1863 gubernatorial election in Wisconsin was held on November 3, 1863. Republican Party candidate James T. Lewis won the election with nearly 60% of the vote, defeating Democratic candidate Henry L. Palmer. The incumbent Governor, Edward Salomon, had ascended to office after the accidental drowning of his predecessor, Louis P. Harvey, in April 1862. He was a former Democrat who had been elected Lieutenant Governor on the Republican Party's Union ticket in 1861. He was not re-nominated by the Republican Party. Henry L. Palmer
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Caleb P. Barns


This time he, three other Democrats, and an independent were elected. In 1850 Barns entered the Wisconsin State Assembly for a one-year term. He was elected again and served another term in 1855. In 1862 he was a Democratic nominee for the Wisconsin State Senate. This time, his opponent was a Republican, who subsequently won the election. The following year Barns served as a delegate to the Democratic State Convention, one of two delegates seated from the Racine District. His commitment to politics was long-standing
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European School Bruxelles-Argenteuil


it was to be the second in a network of schools directly governed and financed through a new separate intergovernmental organisation, originally established by the 1957 Statue of the European School - since repealed and replaced by the 1994 Convention Defining the Statute of the European Schools. The Board of Govenors of the school network was to be composed of education ministers of the signatory states. The European Schools committed themselves to a multilingual and multicultural pedagogical approach, leading to the European Baccalaureate - a bilingual secondary leaving qualification overseen by the Board of Govenors.
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Staush Gruszynski


Staush Gruszynski is an American politician who serves in the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing the 90th Assembly District. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Gruszynski has served on the Brown County Board of Supervisors since 2014, and won an unopposed election in 2018 to take over the seat of Assemblyman Eric Genrich, who was seeking to run for mayor of Green Bay. Born in Marinette, Wisconsin, Gruszynski is the nephew of Stan Gruszynski, a former Wisconsin Assemblyman from the Plover area. According to his campaign website, Gruszynski
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1859 Wisconsin gubernatorial election


The 1859 gubernatorial election in Wisconsin was held on November 8, 1859. Republican Party incumbent Governor Alexander Randall won re-election with 53% of the vote, defeating Democratic candidate Harrison Carroll Hobart. Harrison Carroll Hobart was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly at the time of the election, representing Calumet County. He had previously served as Speaker of the Assembly in the 1849 session, and was state senator for the 1st district in the 1st Wisconsin Legislature. Alexander W. Randall was the incumbent Governor, having been elected in
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2004 United States presidential election in Wisconsin


However, the deciding factor for Kerry's victory was union members who voted for him with 62%, while non-members (83% of the population) voted for Bush with just 52% of the vote. Bush and Kerry each won four congressional districts. Technically the voters of Wisconsin cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. Wisconsin is allocated 10 electors because it has 8 congressional districts and 2 senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit
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Mark Gundrum


Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. He joined the United States Army Reserve in 2000, and was deployed to Iraq in 2008. In 1998, Gundrum won the race to succeed Mary Lazich in the Wisconsin State Assembly as a Republican. In the 2002 election, he defeated fellow state legislator Marc C. Duff, who ran against Gundrum due to redistricting. While serving in the Wisconsin State Assembly, Gundrum worked with Steven Avery, who was exonerated after being falsely convicted of a sexual assault, to pass a criminal justice reform
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2016 Wisconsin Democratic primary


The 2016 Wisconsin Democratic primary was held on April 5 in the U.S. state of Wisconsin as one of the Democratic Party's primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Vermont senator Bernie Sanders won the contest with 56.5%, distancing nationwide frontrunner Hillary Clinton by 13 percentage points. The Wisconsin Republican primary, held on the same day in conjunction with the Democratic primary, yielded a win for Ted Cruz, who distanced nationwide frontrunner Donald Trump by 13%. With no other primaries being scheduled for that day by either party and just
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1922 Wisconsin gubernatorial election


The 1922 gubernatorial election in Wisconsin was held on November 7, 1922. Republican candidate John J. Blaine won the election with 76% of the vote, winning his second of three terms in a massive victory as Governor of Wisconsin due to his massive popularity, the overall popularity of the Republican Party in the 1920s and the obscurity of his opponents. Blaine defeated Independent Democrat candidate Arthur A. Bentley, Socialist candidate Louis A. Arnold and Prohibition Party candidate M. L. Welles. ! colspan="7" | Gubernatorial election in Wisconsin, 1922 ! colspan="2
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2008 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin


in Wisconsin that year in the presidential election, Ryan was re-elected overwhelmingly. In this very liberal district based in the Madison metropolitan area, incumbent Democratic Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin, the first openly lesbian member of the House, easily turned away a challenge from Republican candidate Peter Theron and won her sixth term with nearly seventy percent of the vote. In this relatively liberal district based in western Wisconsin, incumbent Democratic Congressman Ron Kind easily won a seventh term over Republican challenger Paul Stark. Incumbent Democratic Congresswoman Gwen Moore, running for
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Tommy Thompson


of the Wisconsin State Assembly, 58%–42%. Thompson won election to a third term defeating Democratic State Senator Chuck Chvala 67%–31%. He won every county in the state except Menominee County. Thompson won election to a fourth term defeating Democrat Ed Garvey, a Wisconsin Deputy Attorney General, 60%–39%. Thompson is best known nationally for pushing his state to overhaul its welfare system. These reforms were implemented and pioneered before Congress and President Clinton undertook national reform of the program. Under his leadership, Wisconsin reduced its welfare rolls by
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1853 Wisconsin gubernatorial election


The 1853 gubernatorial election in Wisconsin was held on November 4, 1853. Democratic candidate William A. Barstow won the election with 55% of the vote, winning his first term as Governor of Wisconsin. Barstow defeated Free Soil Party candidate Edward D. Holton and Whig candidate Henry S. Baird. William A. Barstow was a resident of Waukesha County, and had previously served as Wisconsin's Secretary of State. Before Wisconsin became a state, he was instrumental in creating Waukesha County from the western part of what had been Milwaukee County. Edward
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Emanuel L. Philipp


with him over railroad oversight. From 1909-1914 he was the Milwaukee Police Commissioner. A conservative Republican, he wrote, with the help of Edgar Werlock, "Political Reform in Wisconsin: A Historical Review of the Subjects of Primary Election, Taxation and Railway Regulation" (1910). In 1914, Philipp was nominated for Governor of Wisconsin, and won the election. He won reelection twice, and served as the 23rd Governor of Wisconsin from 1915-1921. After leaving office, he returned to his business pursuits
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Reince Priebus


, he was elected chairman of the Wisconsin Republican Party, the youngest person to have held that role to date. Two years later, in 2009, he also became the general counsel for the Republican National Committee. As chairman of the Wisconsin Republican Party, Priebus led the party to success in the November 2010 elections in Wisconsin, which was previously a state held by the Democratic Party. The party won control of the State Senate and Assembly, and a Republican candidate was elected Governor. He worked to bring Wisconsin's Tea
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2019 United States elections


African-American female mayor and first lesbian mayor in what was only the second-ever mayoral runoff election in the city's history. In Tampa, Florida, Jane Castor also won a run-off election to become the first gay woman to lead a major Florida city. In Madison, Wisconsin, Satya Rhodes-Conway defeated longtime incumbent mayor Paul Soglin. In Brownsville, Texas, Trey Mendez won a run-off election to replace incumbent mayor Tony Martinez, who came in third in the primary election. Open mayoral
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2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin


Rockwood, an electrical engineer who previously ran as a Democratic candidate for the Wisconsin State Assembly, is the Democratic nominee. The sixth district is represented by Republican Tom Petri, who is retiring. For the Republicans, State Senator Glenn Grothman, State Representative Duey Stroebel and State Senator Joe Leibham sought the nomination. Wisconsin State Senate Majority Leader Scott L. Fitzgerald chose not to run; and Scott Walker aide John Hiller and former Dodge County Sheriff Todd Nehls had been discussed as potential candidates, but did not run. Grothman won the
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Tammy Baldwin


in Wisconsin. In 1998 U.S. Congressman Scott Klug of the 2nd District, based in Madison, announced he would retire, prompting Baldwin to run for the seat. She won the Democratic primary with a plurality of 37% of the vote. In the general election she defeated Republican nominee Josephine Musser 53%-47%. Baldwin was the first woman elected to Congress from Wisconsin. She was also the first openly gay person elected to the House of Representatives, and the first open lesbian elected to Congress. In 2000 Baldwin won reelection to
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Tommy Thompson


take them back to Wisconsin, disguise them a little bit, and declare, 'That's mine.'" ALEC awarded Thompson its "Thomas Jefferson Award" in 1991. While Thompson was Assistant Minority Leader in the Assembly, incumbent Republican U.S. Congressman William Steiger of Wisconsin's 6th congressional district died at the age of 40 from a heart attack. Thompson was one of seven Republican candidates who ran to replace Steiger in the special election in 1979. Tom Petri won the primary and general elections and represented the 6th district until
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Tom Nelson (Wisconsin politician)


of Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin, rather than seek re-election to the Assembly. On September 14, he won the Democratic nomination in a four-way race, winning an absolute majority (52%) over state senator Spencer Coggs (21%) and two others. Nelson and running mate Tom Barrett (who ran as a ticket) were defeated in the 2010 general election by Rebecca Kleefisch and Scott Walker. His assembly seat was taken by Republican Jim Steineke. On April 5, 2011, Nelson defeated former Republican
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Scott Jensen (Wisconsin politician)


Republican caucus from 1987 to 1990, serving under Assembly minority leader David Prosser, Jr.. While there, he ran the first campaign of John Gard for the Wisconsin Assembly in 1987. Jensen the worked as chief of staff for Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson from 1990 to 1992. In 1992, Jensen was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing the 32nd district, in a special election. In the special election primary in December 1991, Jensen barely defeated fellow Republican Donald Wilson, 1474 to 1436. He won the general special
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1984 United States presidential election in Wisconsin


minimum sentences for drug possession. Furthermore, taking a (what was becoming the traditional conservative) stance on the social issues of the day, Reagan strongly opposed legislation regarding comprehension of gay marriage, abortion, and (to a lesser extent) environmentalism, regarding the final as simply being bad for business. Reagan won the election in Wisconsin by a solid 9 point margin. While Wisconsin typically voted more conservative at the time, the election results in Wisconsin are also reflective of a nationwide reconsolidation of base for the Republican Party which
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Wisconsin Assembly District 58


The 58th Assembly District of Wisconsin is contained within Washington County, Wisconsin. The district contains the city of West Bend and the villages of Richfield, Jackson, and Slinger. The district was last defined by redistricting Wisconsin Act 43 (2011). The 58th Assembly District is currently represented by Republican Patricia Strachota, of West Bend. She was first elected in 2005. She was elected Assembly Majority Leader in 2014. Strachota has decided not to seek re-election in 2014. Robert Gannon won the partisan primary on August 12
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James Harsdorf


James Harsdorf (November 7, 1950) is an American politician and dairy farmer from Wisconsin. Born in Stillwater, Minnesota, Harsdorf graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in animal science. He was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly in a 1977 special election, defeating future Wisconsin Secretary of Agriculture Rod Nilsestuen, and served until 1981. He won election to the Wisconsin State Senate in 1980, defeating first-term incumbent Democrat Michelle Radosevich. He served from 1981 to 1989. In 1996, he ran for the
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2018 Wisconsin elections


of one seat for Republicans in the Senate and giving them a majority of 19-14. All 99 seats in the Wisconsin State Assembly were up for election in 2018. Republicans lost one seat to the Democrats, resulting a 63-36 seat Republican majority. In the weeks following the election, Wisconsin’s legislative districts came under wide scrutiny as an example of gerrymandering due to the fact that while Republicans won a fairly wide majority in the Wisconsin State Assembly, the Democrats garnered nearly 9 percent more of the overall statewide vote
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2018 Wisconsin elections


. In addition, Wisconsin was notable for being the only state in the 2018 elections where Republicans won a majority of the state’s seats in the U.S. House while Democrats won a majority of the overall votes. Early in December 2018, a special legislative session was called by outgoing Governor Scott Walker to pass a series of bills to limit the powers of Governor-elect Tony Evers, whom Walker had lost to in the election, as well as incoming State attorney general Josh Kaul. Other bills being considered included restrictions on early
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Wisconsin gubernatorial recall election


The 2012 Wisconsin gubernatorial recall election was a special election to elect the governor and lieutenant governor of Wisconsin. It resulted in voters re-electing incumbent Republican governor Scott Walker over the Democratic candidate Tom Barrett by a larger margin than he had in 2010, in which Walker had also faced Barrett. Recall organizers opposed Walker's agenda, particularly his limiting of collective bargaining rights for state employees and they collected over 900,000 signatures to initiate the recall election process. There was also a recall for Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch. She won her
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Tom Weatherston


. In 1977, Weatherston was hired by the Modine Manufacturing Company and moved to Racine, Wisconsin. In 2010, Weatherston was elected to the Caledonia, Wisconsin, Village Board of Trustees and served until 2013. In November 2012, Weatherston was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly in the newly redrawn 62nd Assembly District. He won re-election in 2014 and 2016 without opposition. In April 2018, Weatherston announced that he would not seek re-election to a 4th term. He instead ran to rejoin the Caledonia Village Board
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1920 Wisconsin gubernatorial election


The 1920 gubernatorial election in Wisconsin was held on November 2, 1920. Republican candidate John J. Blaine won the election with 52% of the vote, winning his first of three terms as Governor of Wisconsin due to the popularity of Emanuel L. Philipp and it would lead to his victorious campaigns for Senate and Attorney General. Blaine defeated Democratic Party candidate Robert McCoy, Socialist candidate William Coleman and Prohibition Party candidate Henry H. Tubbs. The Republican Party (United States) backed John J. Blaine a former candidate for governor of Wisconsin in
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2020 United States presidential election in Wisconsin


The 2020 United States presidential election in Wisconsin is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, as part of the 2020 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia will participate. Wisconsin voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Wisconsin has 10 electoral votes in the Electoral College. The Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee won its bid to host the 2020 Democratic National Convention. The other finalist cities were Houston and Miami. As of February
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2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election


from the rest of state. The poor condition of many roads around the state as well as the lack of work being done to redo them prompted a campaign where potholes were being labeled as “Scott” holes. Walker’s approval ratings were hobbled further by the relative unpopularity of Republican U.S. President Donald Trump in Wisconsin. Walker himself sounded the alarm on this several times in early 2018 after Democrats won two special elections to the Wisconsin State Senate in typically Republican districts and an election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. In April of
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1857 Wisconsin gubernatorial election


The 1857 gubernatorial election in Wisconsin was held on November 3, 1857. Republican Party candidate Alexander Randall won the election with just over 50% of the vote, defeating Democratic candidate James B. Cross. Incumbent Governor Coles Bashford declined to seek re-election. James B. Cross was the incumbent Mayor of Milwaukee at the time of the 1857 gubernatorial election, serving his third consecutive term in that role. He had also represented Milwaukee in the Wisconsin State Assembly for three terms. Cross was a lawyer and had previously served as a
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Mike Gallagher (American politician)


signed a letter urging him to run for Wisconsin's 8th congressional district seat, for which Reid Ribble was not seeking re-election. Gallagher won a primary against Wisconsin state senator Frank Lasee and Forestville village president Terry McNulty. Gallagher then squared off against Outagamie County Executive Tom Nelson in the general election. In September 2016, County Board supervisor Mike Thomas endorsed Gallagher in the Appleton Post-Crescent, contrasting his background in business and the Marine Corps with that of Nelson, a "consummate career politician" who "makes decisions
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2018 Wisconsin elections


for the 1st and 10th districts. Both races were won by Democrats, despite the respective districts’ usual Republican leanings. The 17 odd-numbered districts out of the 33 seats in the Wisconsin Senate were up for election in 2018, including the 1st District. In total, Republicans had 10 seats up for election, while Democrats had 7. Democrat Caleb Frostman ended up losing re-election in the 1st District to Republican André Jacque, whom he’d faced just five months prior and won against, resulting in a gain
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2016 United States presidential election in Wisconsin


a week after the debate. Wisconsin joined the Union in May 1848 and has participated in all elections from 1848 onwards. Since 1900, Wisconsin has been won by the Democrats and Republicans the same number of times. Republican-turned-Progressive Robert M. La Follette Sr. carried the state in the 1924 presidential election. The state voted for the Democratic nominee in the seven elections from 1988 to 2012, although sometimes by small margins, as it was in 1992, 2000, and 2004. There were other occasions, in
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Social-Democratic Party of Wisconsin


decade. In the fall 1920 election, the Socialist Party of Wisconsin elected 3 State Senators and another 9 of its members to the Wisconsin Assembly. This was topped in the 1922 election, which saw the return of Victor Berger to Congress, while 2 party members were elected to the State Senate and another 10 were sent to the Assembly. The party did not run a candidate for U.S. Senate in 1922, avoiding a race which was handily won by popular progressive Republican Robert M. La Follette, Sr. over his Democratic challenger
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2000 United States presidential election in Illinois


The 2000 United States presidential election in Illinois took place on November 7, 2000, and was part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose 22 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Illinois was easily won by sitting Vice President Al Gore by a safe margin of victory, unlike other states in the Midwest, such as nearby Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin, which Gore won, albeit by very small margins. Bush didn't perform terribly at the county level,
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Tom Petri


ran for the U.S. Senate in 1974. He won the Republican primary with 85% of the vote. During the campaign, Petri walked across the state of Wisconsin as part of his grassroots strategy. In the general election, incumbent Democrat U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson defeated Petri 62%–36%. Petri took five of 72 counties in the state. In 1979, he won a special election to finish the term of the late U.S. Congressman William A. Steiger, who had died shortly after being re-elected in 1978. He defeated fellow
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Debbie Lesko


2009 until 2015. Lesko won the Republican nomination for Arizona's 8th congressional district special election. She won the election on April 24, defeating Democratic nominee Hiral Tipirneni with 52.4% of the vote to Tipirneni's 47.6%. She won a full term in November 2018, again defeating Tipirneni, winning a full term. Lesko was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and grew up nearby, the daughter of Don and Delores Lorenz. She received a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Wisconsin and in the 1980s moved to
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2016 United States presidential election in Wisconsin


the amount needed to win the national election). Trump's victory in Wisconsin was attributed to overwhelming and underestimated support from white working-class voters, a demographic group that had previously tended to vote for the Democratic candidate. By winning Wisconsin, Trump became the first Republican candidate to win the state since Ronald Reagan in 1984. Following a statewide recount requested by Green Party candidate Jill Stein's campaign, Trump was certified to have won Wisconsin by a narrow margin of 1,405,284 votes to Clinton's 1,382,536. Wisconsin was also one
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John Lehman (Wisconsin politician)


. Born in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, Lehman graduated from Washington Park High School in Racine, Wisconsin. He received his bachelor's degree from Luther College and his master's degree from Carthage College. He also went to the University of Wisconsin–Madison and University of Wisconsin–Parkside. He taught history and economics at Washington Park High School. Lehman was elected to the Racine City Council in 1988. In 1996 he ran for and won election in the 62nd assembly district in a vacancy created when incumbent Kimberly Plache defeated 21st district
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Wisconsin Senate, District 6


The 6th District of the Wisconsin Senate is located in Southern Wisconsin, and is composed of parts of Milwaukee County. La Tonya Johnson is the senator serving the 6th district. She was elected in 2016, after incumbent Nikiya Harris Dodd declined to seek re-election in 2016. She won the November 2016 general election, without an opponent, after winning the August Democratic primary election with an absolute majority against two opponents. The area of the 6th Senate District contains three State Assembly Districts: The district is also located mostly within
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Nathaniel P. Tallmadge


time Wisconsin legislators had ever taken such an action. The 1844 presidential election was won by Democrat James K. Polk. In April 1845, Polk nominated Henry Dodge to serve as territorial governor. Dodge, who had also been Wisconsin Territory's first governor, was easily confirmed by the U.S. Senate, and assumed his new post on April 8, 1845. Tallmadge decided to stay in Wisconsin, and built his planned residence in Fond du Lac, where he practiced law while living in semi-retirement. He also maintained a home
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2008 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin


The 2008 congressional elections in Wisconsin were held on November 4, 2008 to determine who would represent the state of Wisconsin in the United States House of Representatives. Representatives were elected for two-year terms; those elected served in the 111th Congress from January 3, 2009 until January 3, 2011. The election coincided with the 2008 U.S. presidential election and other Wisconsin elections. Wisconsin has eight seats in the House, apportioned according to the 2000 United States Census. Its 2007-2008 congressional delegation consisted of five Democrats and three
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2006 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin


The 2006 congressional elections in Wisconsin were held on November 7, 2006 to determine who would represent the state of Wisconsin in the United States House of Representatives. Representatives were elected for two-year terms; those elected served in the 110th Congress from January 3, 2007 until January 3, 2009. The election coincided with the 2006 U.S. senatorial election and the 2006 Wisconsin gubernatorial election. Wisconsin has eight seats in the House, apportioned according to the 2000 United States Census. Its 2006-2007 congressional delegation consisted of four Democrats
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Jeffrey Plale


-nomination on September 14, 2010 when he was defeated in the Wisconsin Democratic primary election by Chris Larson, a member of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors, who contended that Plale was too conservative. Plale lost by 5,148 (39.3%) to 7,962 (60.7%) for Larson. Larson subsequently won the Senate race, in an election that saw four Democratic seats fall to Republicans. During the lame duck legislative session after the election, Plale was one of two defeated Democratic state senators who voted against renewing contracts with
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2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin


The 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin will be held on November 3, 2020, to elect the 8 U.S. Representatives from the state of Wisconsin, one from each of the state's 8 congressional districts. The elections will coincide with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. The 8th district encompasses northeastern Wisconsin, including Green Bay and Appleton. The incumbent is Republican Mike Gallagher, who was reelected
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Eric Genrich


Eric Genrich (born October 8, 1979) is an American politician serving as the mayor of Green Bay, Wisconsin. Genrich was previously the Wisconsin State Assembly representative for Green Bay's 90th Assembly District, serving from 2013 until 2019. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Genrich first ran for office in the 2012 Wisconsin State Assembly elections, defeating businessman David VanderLeest with 60.2% of the vote. He won re-election in 2014, defeating lawyer Eric Wimberger, and ran unopposed in the 2016 Assembly elections.
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Jeff Stone (Wisconsin politician)


a special election in 1998. He has been re-elected until he decided to resign in October 2013. In 2010, Stone announced his candidacy for the office of Milwaukee County Executive, challenging Jim Sullivan, Lee Holloway, Chris Abele, and Iesha Griffin in the nonpartisan February primary. While Stone won the primary with 43% of the vote, he lost the general election to Chris Abele. On October 14, 2013, Stone resigned from the Wisconsin State Assembly; he will be working for the Wisconsin Public Service Commission
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Scott Walker (politician)


term in 2004 and was re-elected in 2008. Walker ran for Governor of Wisconsin in 2006, but dropped out of the race before the primary election. He ran again in 2010 and won. Shortly after his inauguration in 2011, Walker gained national attention by introducing the Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill; the legislation proposed to limit collective bargaining for most Wisconsin public employees. In response, opponents of the bill protested at the Wisconsin State Capitol and Senate Democrats left the state in an effort to prevent the bill from being passed
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Robert M. La Follette


Robert Marion La Follette Sr. (June 14, 1855June 18, 1925) was an American lawyer and politician. He represented Wisconsin in both chambers of Congress and served as the Governor of Wisconsin. A Republican for most of his career, he ran for President of the United States as the nominee of his own Progressive Party in the 1924 presidential election. Historian John D. Buenker describes La Follette as "the most celebrated figure in Wisconsin history." Born and raised in Wisconsin, La Follette won election as the Dane County
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Daniel Theno


Daniel O. Theno (born May 8, 1947) was an American politician and educator. Born in Ashland, Wisconsin, Theno graduated with a BS from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1969. He spent his senior year teaching at the University of Rio Grade do Sol in Porto Alegre, Brazil, under a university fellowship. He taught agriculture. Theno won a special election to the Wisconsin State Senate in 1972 from the 25th District of northern Wisconsin, defeating Ernest J. Korpela. He was re-elected in 1974,
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2012 United States presidential election in Wisconsin


Republican vice presidential candidate to lose their home state since Jack Kemp lost New York in 1996. As of the 2016 presidential election, this was the last time the Democratic candidate won Wisconsin. Although Paul Ryan was from Wisconsin, the Republicans lost by around a seven-point margin. This kept Wisconsin a Democratic state. President Barack Obama was unopposed in the Democratic Primary, winning 293,914 votes, or 97.89% of the vote. 'Uncommitted' received 5.492 votes, or 1.89% of the vote. 849 votes, 0.28
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Patrick Lucey


of Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin from 1965 to 1967 and unsuccessfully challenged Governor Warren P. Knowles in the 1966 gubernatorial election. Lucey won the 1970 Wisconsin gubernatorial election and served as governor until 1977, when he accepted President Jimmy Carter's appointment to the position of United States Ambassador to Mexico. As governor, Lucey presided over the merger of the Wisconsin State University system and the University of Wisconsin System. In 1980, he agreed to serve as the running mate to John B. Anderson, a former Republican Congressman. The ticket of Anderson
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Margaret P. Varda


law office: Varda & Varda. John P. Varda ran for and won a seat in the Wisconsin State Assembly on the Wisconsin Progressive Party ticket. John Varda resigned from the Wisconsin Assembly and joined the United States Army during World War II. Margaret Varda then ran for her husband's seat and was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly. She did not seek re-election and joined the Women's Army Corps in the United States Army during the war. She was assigned to the European theater and had the good fortune to
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Kalan Haywood


Kalan Haywood, II. is a Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing the 16th Assembly District (Milwaukee) beginning in 2019. 19 years old when he won the Democratic primary election in August 2018 and the unchallenged election in November 2018, Haywood is the youngest person serving in the Wisconsin Assembly; he is not, however, the youngest in history (as Michael Elconin was also 19 when he won the 16th Assembly District in 1972) or to be serving in a state legislature, (as several 19-year-
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William Henry Evans


the Reform or Liberal Reform Party, a short-lived coalition of Democrats, reform and Liberal Republicans, and Grangers formed in 1873, which secured the election of a Governor of Wisconsin and a number of state legislators. (Incumbent Peter Doyle, who had served as a Democrat, was the [successful] Reform nominee for Secretary of State of Wisconsin). Evans won with 1,059 votes, to 720 for Republican J. D. Jones. He was assigned to the standing committee on enrolled bills. He was not a candidate for
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2018 Wisconsin State Assembly election


The Wisconsin State Assembly elections of 2018 were held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. All 99 seats in the Wisconsin State Assembly were up for election. The Republican Party maintained a majority it has held since 2011, winning 63 seats, a loss of one seat, and 44.75% of the voting share. Despite winning a majority of ballots cast, the Democratic Party won only 36 seats, thus remaining a minority. Democratic votes were concentrated in urban areas such as Milwaukee and Madison, while Republicans garnered votes in more
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1918 Wisconsin gubernatorial election


The 1918 gubernatorial election in Wisconsin was held on November 5, 1918. Republican candidate Emanuel Lorenz Philipp won the election with 47% of the vote, winning his third and last term as Governor of Wisconsin. Philipp defeated Democratic Party candidate Henry A. Moehlenpah and Socialist candidate Emil Seidel. The Republican Party (United States) backed the current governor and railroad executive Emanuel L. Philipp for his third term run, the Democratic Party (United States) backed Henry A. Moehlenpah a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and a failed
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Peter W. Barca


for Wisconsin. The Partnership led the way in helping to pass over 50 economic initiatives in the 2009–10 legislative session, including the Small Business Capital Access Program and the Entrepreneurial Assistance Grant Program, both authored by Barca. In the 2010 election, Republicans won complete control of government in Wisconsin. Following the election, Barca was elected by his colleagues to serve as Assembly Democratic Leader in the 100th Wisconsin Legislative Session. He remained leader of the Democratic minority until September 2017, when he stepped down to focus more attention on his own
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2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin


Democrat Gwen Moore, who has represented Wisconsin's 4th congressional district since 2005, is running for re-election. Dan Sebring, an automobile repair shop owner who unsuccessfully challenged Moore as the Republican nominee in 2010, ran again. Robert R. Raymond, a perennial candidate, ran as an Independent. Republican Jim Sensenbrenner, who has represented Wisconsin's 5th congressional district since 2003 (and previously represented Wisconsin's 9th congressional district from 1979 to 2003), is running for re-election. Dave Heaster, a technology employee at
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La Crosse, Wisconsin


Crosse have voted Democratic in every presidential election since 1988. In the 2012 presidential election, Barack Obama won 65% of the city of La Crosse and 58% of La Crosse County. In 2014, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ranked La Crosse as one of Wisconsin's top performing Democratic cities. In the United States Congress, Democrat Ron Kind has represented La Crosse as part of Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district since 1997. The city is almost coterminous with the 95th Wisconsin State Assembly District and is represented by Democrat Jill Billings.
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2008 United States presidential election in Wisconsin


raised $4,862,486. Obama and his interest groups spent $13,586,634. McCain and his interest groups spent $9,240,899. Each ticket visited the state 7 times. Having voted for the Democratic presidential nominees by extremely narrow margins in 2000 and 2004, Wisconsin was originally considered to be a swing state in 2008. However, Obama took a wide lead in the polls in Wisconsin near the final weeks before the election and many pundits and news organizations labeled the state as a safe blue state. Obama won Wisconsin by a comfortable 13.91-percent margin
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