52  Price

Price County (pop. 14,000) is located in rural north central Wisconsin. Its population is 94% white. The median age is among the oldest in the state and the population density is among the lowest. In recent elections, the county has usually given large majorities to Republican candidates.

52.1 Demographics

52.2 County Election Results

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52.3 Municipality Election Results

The largest community Price County is the City of Park Falls. Although some communities have been competitive in some recent elections, the overall trend is towards the Republican Party. Park Falls, for instance, gave Scott Walker 43% of the vote in 2014, when he won the state, and 51% in 2018, when he lost it. The Republican gubernatorial candidate won 54% of the Park Falls vote in 2022.

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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52.4 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.

52.4.1 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.

52.4.2 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.

52.5 Appendix

52.5.1 Detailed County Results

52.5.2 Detailed Municipality Results