56 Richland
Richland County (pop. 17,000) is located in southwestern Wisconsin, about 60 miles west of Madison. Its population is 93% white and has lower average levels of educational attainment, a lower median income, and a higher poverty rate than the state average. Politically, the county is competitive, with a Republican lean. Donald Trump won the county twice. Evers carried it in 2018 and narrowly lost it in 2022.
56.1 Demographics
56.2 county election results
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56.3 municipality election results
About 30% of the county lives in the City of Richland Center, with the remainder spread across small towns and villages. A variety of political trajectories can be found among these municipalities, but many of them are quite competitive, having delivered majorities to different parties from one election cycle to another.
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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