The 1894 Wisconsin gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1894.
Incumbent Democratic Governor George Wilbur Peck was soundly defeated by Republican nominee William H. Upham. This election ushered in a four decade period of Republican dominance in Wisconsin politics as the nation as a whole transitioned to the Fourth Party System after the Panic of 1893 and the ensuing collapse of the Democratic Party's national coalition.
General election
Candidates
Major party candidates
- George Wilbur Peck, Democratic, incumbent Governor
- William H. Upham, Republican, former mayor of Marshfield
Other candidates
- Capt. John F. Cleghorn, Prohibition
- David Frank Powell, Labor, mayor of La Crosse, Union Labor nominee for Governor of Wisconsin in 1888
Results by county
Upham was the first Republican to ever win Brown County and Oneida County and the first since 1869 to win Sheboygan County. This would be the last election until 1932 in which Outagamie County voted for a Democrat. By voting for Upham, St. Croix County began a streak of 40 consecutive gubernatorial elections, lasting until 1978, in which it voted for the winning candidate.
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
- Ashland
- Brown
- Chippewa
- Dane
- Fond du Lac
- Forest
- Green Lake
- Iowa
- Juneau
- Kenosha
- La Crosse
- Marinette
- Marquette
- Oconto
- Oneida
- Portage
- Shawano
- Sheboygan
- Taylor
- Waukesha
- Winnebago
- Wood