40  Marquette

Located about 60 miles north of Madison, Marquette County (pop. 16,000) is a rural county outside of any metro or micropolitan statistical area. Its population is 93% white and much older than the state average. College graduates are among the lowest levels in the state. After a series of fairly competitive elections in the 2000s, Republicans opened a wide lead in the state beginning around 2010.

40.1 Demographics

40.2 County Election Results

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40.3 Municipality Election Results

Marquette County’s population is distributed across a range of small municipalities. All communities typically give a majority of their vote to Republican candidates; although, City of Montello did vote for Tony Evers in 2018 and a handful of places voted for Tammy Baldwin in that year as well.

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.

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40.4 Supreme Court Election Results

Wisconsin’s Supreme Court has 7 justices, each of whom are elected to 10 year terms in statewide elections held in April. State law prohibits more than one Supreme Court election from being held in a single year. If a seat becomes vacant, the governor appoints a replacement who serves until the next year in which no court election is already scheduled. If more than two candidates achieve ballot access, a nonpartisan, top-two primary is held in February.

Court elections are formally nonpartisan, but candidates are usually supported by either liberals or conservatives. In recent years, it has become common for the Democratic and Republican parties to endorse and actively campaign on behalf of favored judicial candidates. The liberal and conservative labels indicated in the following graphs and tables are based on widely recognized tendencies, not any formal affiliation.

40.4.1 County Election Results

This graphic compares how presidential, gubernatorial, and court elections have trended over the past quarter century. Click the “Table” tab to see detailed results for the Supreme Court races.

40.4.2 Municipality Election Results

The following table shows the results of each Supreme Court election by municipality. The graphic visualizes the shifts over the past three court elections.

40.5 Appendix

40.5.1 Detailed County Results

40.5.2 Detailed Municipality Results