United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin, 2024
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November 5, 2024 |
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin are scheduled on November 5, 2024. Voters will elect eight candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's eight U.S. House districts. The primary was August 13, 2024. The filing deadline was June 3, 2024.
Partisan breakdown
| Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Wisconsin | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | U.S. Senate | U.S. House | Total |
| Democratic | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Republican | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vacancies | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 2 | 8 | 10 |
Candidates
District 1
General election candidates
- Bryan Steil (Incumbent) (Republican Party)
- Peter Barca (Democratic Party)
- Chester Todd Jr. (Green Party)
Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
Republican primary candidates
- Bryan Steil (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
Minor Party primary candidates
Green Party
District 2
General election candidates
- Mark Pocan (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
- Erik Olsen (Republican Party)
Democratic primary candidates
- Mark Pocan (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
District 3
General election candidates
- Derrick Van Orden (Incumbent) (Republican Party)
- Rebecca Cooke (Democratic Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Rustin Provance (Independent)
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Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
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Republican primary candidates
- Derrick Van Orden (Incumbent) ✔
District 4
General election candidates
- Gwen Moore (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
- Tim Rogers (Republican Party)
- Robert Raymond (Independent)
Democratic primary candidates
- Gwen Moore (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
District 5
General election candidates
- Scott Fitzgerald (Incumbent) (Republican Party)
- Ben Steinhoff (Democratic Party)
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Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
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Republican primary candidates
- Scott Fitzgerald (Incumbent) ✔
District 6
General election candidates
- Glenn Grothman (Incumbent) (Republican Party)
- John Zarbano (Democratic Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Jack Brudvig (Republican Party)
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Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
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Republican primary candidates
- Glenn Grothman (Incumbent) ✔
District 7
General election candidates
- Tom Tiffany (Incumbent) (Republican Party)
- Kyle Kilbourn (Democratic Party)
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Democratic primary candidates
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Republican primary candidates
- Tom Tiffany (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
District 8
General election candidates
- Kristin Lyerly (Democratic Party)
- Tony Wied (Republican Party)
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Democratic primary candidates
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Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
- Mike Gallagher (Incumbent)
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Voting information
- See also: Voting in Wisconsin
General election race ratings
- See also: Race rating definitions and methods
Ballotpedia provides race ratings from four outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and DDHQ/The Hill. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:
- Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
- Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
- Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.[1]
- Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.
Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.[2][3][4]
Click the following links to see the race ratings in each of the state's U.S. House districts:
- Wisconsin's 1st Congressional District
- Wisconsin's 2nd Congressional District
- Wisconsin's 3rd Congressional District
- Wisconsin's 4th Congressional District
- Wisconsin's 5th Congressional District
- Wisconsin's 6th Congressional District
- Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District
- Wisconsin's 8th Congressional District
Ballot access
The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in Wisconsin in the 2024 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in Wisconsin, click here.
| Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2024 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State | Office | Party | Signatures required | Filing fee | Filing deadline | Source |
| Wisconsin | U.S. House | All candidates | 1,000 | N/A | 6/3/2024 | Source |
Election analysis
Click the tabs below to view information about competitiveness, presidential election history, and party control in the state.
- Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
- Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the state's U.S. House districts.
- State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Wisconsin.
| Wisconsin U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2024 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office | Districts/ offices |
Seats | Open seats | Candidates | Possible primaries | Contested Democratic primaries | Contested Republican primaries | % of contested primaries | Incumbents in contested primaries | % of incumbents in contested primaries | ||||
| 2024 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 23 | 16 | 2 | 3 | 31.3% | 0 | 00.0% | ||||
| 2022 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 16 | 1 | 5 | 37.5% | 3 | 42.9% | ||||
| 2020 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 23 | 16 | 3 | 3 | 37.5% | 1 | 14.3% | ||||
| 2018 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 25 | 16 | 3 | 3 | 37.5% | 2 | 28.6% | ||||
| 2016 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 23 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 50.0% | 4 | 57.1% | ||||
| 2014 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 27 | 16 | 3 | 5 | 50.0% | 3 | 42.9% | ||||
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Wisconsin in 2024. Information below was calculated on June 16, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Twenty-three candidates ran for Wisconsin’s eight U.S. House districts, including 11 Democrats and 12 Republicans. That’s an average of 2.88 candidates per district. There were 2.75 candidates per district in 2022, 2.88 candidates per district in 2020, and 3.13 candidates per district in 2018.
The 8th Congressional District was the only open district in Wisconsin in 2024. Since 2014, there has been one open district in Wisconsin in every election year.
The 8th Congressional District became vacant after former Rep. Mike Gallagher (R) resigned from Congress on April 19.
Two congressional districts—the 3rd and the 8th—were tied for the most candidates who ran for a district in Wisconsin in 2024. Four candidates ran in each district.
Five primaries—two Democratic and three Republican—were contested in 2024, the fewest in Wisconsin in the last 10 years. Between 2014 and 2022, an average of 6.8 primaries were contested each election year.
No incumbents were in contested primaries in 2024, the fewest in Wisconsin in the last 10 years. Between 2014 and 2022, an average of 2.6 incumbents ran in contested primaries.
Candidates filed to run in the Republican and Democratic primaries in all eight districts, meaning no seats were guaranteed to either party.| Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index for Wisconsin, 2024 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| District | Incumbent | Party | PVI |
| Wisconsin's 1st | Bryan Steil | R+3 | |
| Wisconsin's 2nd | Mark Pocan | D+19 | |
| Wisconsin's 3rd | Derrick Van Orden | R+4 | |
| Wisconsin's 4th | Gwen Moore | D+25 | |
| Wisconsin's 5th | Scott Fitzgerald | R+14 | |
| Wisconsin's 6th | Glenn Grothman | R+10 | |
| Wisconsin's 7th | Tom Tiffany | R+12 | |
| Wisconsin's 8th | Mike Gallagher | R+10 | |
| 2020 presidential results in congressional districts based on 2024 district lines, Wisconsin[5] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| District | Joe Biden |
Donald Trump | ||
| Wisconsin's 1st | 48.3% | 50.3% | ||
| Wisconsin's 2nd | 70.2% | 28.4% | ||
| Wisconsin's 3rd | 46.8% | 51.5% | ||
| Wisconsin's 4th | 75.9% | 22.8% | ||
| Wisconsin's 5th | 37.9% | 60.8% | ||
| Wisconsin's 6th | 41.4% | 57.0% | ||
| Wisconsin's 7th | 39.3% | 59.2% | ||
| Wisconsin's 8th | 41.5% | 57.0% | ||
Congressional delegation
The table below displays the partisan composition of Wisconsin's congressional delegation as of May 2024.
| Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Wisconsin | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | U.S. Senate | U.S. House | Total |
| Democratic | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Republican | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vacancies | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 2 | 8 | 10 |
State executive
The table below displays the officeholders in Wisconsin's top four state executive offices as of May 2024.
| State executive officials in Wisconsin, May 2024 | |
|---|---|
| Office | Officeholder |
| Governor | |
| Lieutenant Governor | |
| Secretary of State | |
| Attorney General | |
State legislature
Wisconsin State Senate
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 10 | |
| Republican Party | 22 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 1 | |
| Total | 33 | |
Wisconsin State Assembly
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 35 | |
| Republican Party | 64 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 99 | |
Trifecta control
The table below shows the state's trifecta status from 1992 until 2024.
Wisconsin Party Control: 1992-2024
Two years of Democratic trifectas • Ten years of Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.
| Year | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governor | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D |
| Senate | D | R | R | R | D | D | R | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
| House | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Inside Elections also uses Tilt ratings to indicate an even smaller advantage and greater competitiveness.
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Nathan Gonzalez," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Kyle Kondik," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Charlie Cook," April 22, 2018
- ↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' presidential results by congressional district for 2020, 2016, and 2012," accessed December 15, 2023
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