The 2024 United States presidential election in Wisconsin took place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Wisconsin voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Wisconsin awarded ten electoral votes in the Electoral College.
Wisconsin was considered to be a crucial battleground in 2024, with almost all major news organizations marking the state as a tossup. The Wisconsin Green Party attained ballot access after not appearing in 2020. Trump won Wisconsin with 49.6% of the vote, the highest percentage a Republican candidate has received in Wisconsin since Reagan's 1984 landslide. When Wisconsin was called for Trump, a number of networks simultaneously declared Trump the president-elect, winning a second, non-consecutive term. Wisconsin also weighed in as 0.6% more Democratic than the nation at-large.
Primary elections
Democratic primary
The Wisconsin Democratic primary was held on April 2, 2024, alongside contests in Connecticut, New York, and Rhode Island.
Republican primary
The Wisconsin Republican primary was held on April 2, 2024, alongside contests in Connecticut, New York, and Rhode Island.
General election
Campaign
Convention
The Republican Party held their presidential nomination convention in the Wisconsin city of Milwaukee, where Donald Trump and JD Vance were formally nominated as the GOP ticket. This year marked the first time that Milwaukee hosted the Republican National Convention. The Democratic National Convention was selected for Milwaukee in 2020 but much of the convention activity was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Candidates
The following candidates have qualified for the general election ballot:
- Kamala Harris — Democratic
- Donald Trump — Republican
- Chase Oliver — Libertarian
- Randall Terry — Constitution
- Jill Stein — Green
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — Independent
- Cornel West — Independent
- Claudia De la Cruz — Independent
Polling
Kamala Harris vs. Donald Trump
Aggregate polls
Kamala Harris vs. Donald Trump vs. Cornel West vs. Jill Stein vs. Chase Oliver
Kamala Harris vs. Donald Trump vs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vs. Cornel West vs. Jill Stein vs. Chase Oliver
Aggregate polls
Kamala Harris vs. Donald Trump vs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vs. Jill Stein
Kamala Harris vs. Donald Trump vs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Results
By county
County that flipped from Democratic to Republican
- Sauk (largest municipality: Baraboo)
By congressional district
Trump won six of eight congressional districts.
Analysis
Trump's victory in the state made him the first Republican candidate to carry Wisconsin twice since Ronald Reagan did so in 1980 and 1984. He also received nearly 1.7 million votes, a record for a candidate in the history of the state. Wisconsin was the closest state in the election by margin of victory, with Trump only winning it by 0.86%, thus making it the only state to be decided by less than a 1% margin. Wisconsin also shifted rightward by about 1.5 points, the weakest such shift in any of the swing states in the election. While almost all of the state's counties swung right from 2020, Harris improved in the three WOW counties and Door County. Harris' margin of defeat in Wisconsin in 2024 was also slightly higher than that of Hillary Clinton's (0.77%) in 2016. Wisconsin was one of only six states where Harris received more raw votes than Biden in 2020.
As of 2024, Wisconsin has, together with Michigan and Pennsylvania, the longest-running active streak among states of voting for the winning presidential candidate, having done so in the latest five presidential elections. The results also extended it to nine consecutive presidential elections where the winning party did not differ between those three states. This was the first election since 2012 where Wisconsin voted to the left of the nation as a whole. This was also the first time that Door County voted for the losing candidate of the presidential election since 1992, a record it shared with Blaine County, Montana, up until this election where Blaine County became the sole longest bellwether county. This election was also the first time since 1988 that Wisconsin voted to the left of neighboring Michigan.