55  Racine

Racine County (pop. 197,000) is located in southeastern Wisconsin in between Milwaukee and Kenosha counties. Despite this location, it is not share a metro area with either, instead being part of the single-county Racine Metropolitan Statistical Area. Racine County’s population is relatively racially diverse, and its population comes close to state averages in terms of educational attainment, age, income, and poverty. The county has remained consistently competitive between the two parties for the past two decades, albeit with a slight Republican lean.

55.1 Demographics

55.2 county election results

Click each column name to sort its values.

55.3 municipality election results

About 77,000 people live in the City of Racine, while a combined 53,000 live in the two adjacent villages of Mount Pleasant and Caledonia. The City of Racine is a Democratic party stronghold, while the more western parts of the county vote more Republican. Some of the traditionally Republican-leaning suburban communities have tilted more towards the Democrats since Trump’s 2016 campaign.

This map shows the location of each municipality in the county, as it existed in 2022.

These dot plots show the most recent election results in each municipality.

To more clearly illustrate recent changes in municipality voting trends, these scatterplots compare the most recent vote for president and senator with the shift from that office’s previous election.

These maps show show every election result since 2000 in each municipality.

Click each column name to sort its values.

55.4 Appendix

55.4.1 detailed county results

55.4.2 detailed municipality results