Monday, December 24, 2018

Wisconsin pivot counties


In the 2016 presidential election, 206 counties that voted for Trump after voting for Obama in the 2008 and 2012 elections.

23 of these counties are in Wisconsin, most of them in the western and northern part of the state.  As a group, they easily gave Trump his razor-thin majority of 22,748 votes, allowing him to win the state by less than 1 percentage point -- 0.77, to be exact.


Adams, Buffalo, Columbia, Crawford, Door, Dunn, Forest, Grant, Jackson, Juneau, Kenosha, Lafayette, Lincoln, Marquette, Pepin, Price, Racine, Richland, Sauk, Sawyer, Trempealeau, Vernon, Winnebago.

Of these 23 counties, 7 flipped to Democrat Tony Evers in this year's gubernatorial race.


Adams, Buffalo, Columbia, Crawford, Door, Dunn, Forest, Grant, Jackson, Juneau, Kenosha, Lafayette, Lincoln, Marquette, Pepin, Price, Racine, Richland, Sauk, Sawyer, Trempealeau, Vernon, Winnebago.

Of these 23 counties, 14 flipped to Democrat Tammy Baldwin in this year's U.S. Senate race.


Adams, Buffalo, Columbia, Crawford, Door, Dunn, Forest, Grant, Jackson, Juneau, Kenosha, Lafayette, Lincoln, Marquette, Pepin, Price, Racine, Richland, Sauk, Sawyer, Trempealeau, Vernon, Winnebago.

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