La Crosse County, Wisconsin is a vibrant and diverse county located in the southeastern corner of the state. With a population of approximately 116,000 people, it is the largest county in Wisconsin outside of Milwaukee. La Crosse County has many local political candidates running for various offices, including mayor, city council members, sheriff, district attorney and school board directors. Each candidate brings their own unique set of credentials and ideas to the table in order to best serve their constituents. The current mayor of La Crosse County is Tim Kabat and he is running for re-election this November. The city council members are divided into four districts and each have their own representatives as well. In addition to local politics within La Crosse County, many residents are involved in state or national politics by either becoming active within political organizations or registering to vote at election time. There is also a strong sense of community amongst the people in La Crosse County which allows them to come together around important issues that affect everyone in the area.
The political climate in La Crosse County, WI is somewhat liberal.
In La Crosse County, WI 55.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 42.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, La Crosse county remained strongly Democratic, 55.8% to 42.3%.
La Crosse county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
La Crosse County, WI is somewhat liberal.
La Crosse-Onalaska Metro Area is somewhat liberal.
Wisconsin is leaning liberal.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index is based on recent voting in national elections, federal campaign contributions by local residents, and consumer personality profiles.
VoteWord™
Displaying 20 years of Presidential voting, visualized in one word.
La Crosse, Wisconsin: d d D D d D
How It Works:
Here at BestPlaces, we were looking at the voting patterns since the 2000 election and realized that we could express the results of each election as one letter. R if the Republican Party candidate won, D for the Democrat and I for the Independent. The six elections (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) would be expressed as six-letter word (R R D R R).
Then we went a little further and added the dimension of magnitude. If the difference of victory was greater than 10 percent, the letter is upper case, and lower case if the difference was less than 10 percent. This allows us to see interesting voting patterns at just a glance.
Here's the VoteWord for Iowa d r d d r. In the last six elections the state has been closely contested, voting narrowly for the Republican Party candidate in 2016 and 2020 after voting for the Democratic Party in 2008 and 2012. Virginia (r r d d d D) has voted for the Democratic Party in the last three elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in La Crosse County, WI
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 5,941 contributions totaling $562,638 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $95 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,750 contributions totaling $1,224,821 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $700 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)