Waushara County ranks 10th among Wisconsin's 72 counties in having the largest percentage of its presidential vote for Donald Trump in 2020. Twelve years after Barack Obama won the county by nearly a percentage point.
Source: Wikipedia
3rd-party candidates received 27.9% of vote in 1992, 16.2% of vote in 1996, 5.1% in 2016;
(Alabama segregationist George Wallace received 8.9% of the vote in 1968)
In a word, no.
If the Democratic collapse in rural western and northern Wisconsin was the most dramatic feature of the state’s 2016 election map, then the unchecked Republican decline in suburban southern Wisconsin is the most arresting feature of the 2022 map. It is all the more striking when you consider that Republicans had reason to believe they might steady their suburban ship this year, with Donald Trump not on the ballot, with a Democrat in the White House who has poor job ratings, with crime and inflation playing prominent roles in the campaign. But that didn’t happen.
Sources: Wikipedia (presidential, gubernatorial)
The population of Waushara County has increased 47% during the past 100 years but has remained relatively stagnant since 2000. By comparison, Wisconsin's population has increased 124% and Dane County;s has increased 540% since 1920.
Dane County's population has increased 32% since 2020 -- a total of nearly 135,000 new residents, more than 5 times that of Waushara County's current number.
Source: Wikipedia
Source: U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts
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