Lincoln County ranks 29th among Wisconsin's 72 counties in having the largest percentage of its presidential vote for Donald Trump in 2020. Barack Obama won the county in both 2008 and 2012. And by more than 12 percentage points in 2008.
3rd-party candidates received 27.7% of vote in 1992, 16.4% of vote in 1996, 6.4% in 2016;
(Alabama segregationist George Wallace received 7.3% 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.
Since the 2012 presidential election, Democrats have not come close to winning a majority of the vote in Lincoln County.
The population of Lincoln County has increased 35% during the past 100 years but has declined by4 % since 2000. By comparison, Wisconsin's population has increased 9% and Dane County;s has increased 35% since 2000.
Lincoln is one of Wisconsin's whitest counties.
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