MADISON, Wis. (WRN / WJMC) — Tuesday’s statewide election in Wisconsin was one for the record books.
Roughly 52%, or 2.3 million Wisconsinites of voting age, cast ballots compared to 1.8 million in the state’s 2023 off-year election.
Turnout was driven by the high-profile Supreme Court race in which Dane County Judge Susan Crawford defeated Waukesha County Judge and former attorney general Brad Schimel. Crawford received the most votes ever for a Supreme Court candidate and Schimel received the second most.
Tuesday’s turnout was more indicative of the roughly 2.7 million votes cast for governor in Wisconsin’s 2018 and 2022 midterms.
Barron County Clerk Jessica Hodek said 17,820 ballots were casts. That’s 39 percent of voting age adults and 59 percent of registered voters in Barron County, a large turnout for a Spring Election.
In Rice Lake, 2,828 ballots were cast. Because the Rice Lake city council elections only had write-in candidates, those races had to be hand counted on Tuesday night.