Fitchburg, WI is a suburb of Madison located in the Dane County. It is a small city with a population of about 25,000 people according to the 2010 census. Fitchburg has a strong sense of community and pride for its local businesses and local culture. Politically, the city's voting population strongly leans Democratic; during the 2018 gubernatorial election, 66% voted for Tony Evers while 32% voted for Scott Walker. Fitchburg also has two representatives in the Wisconsin State Assembly – Melissa Sargent and Lisa Subeck – both of whom are Democrats. The mayor of Fitchburg is Steve Arnold who was elected in 2017 as a Democrat on an environmental platform that included pledging to make Fitchburg a green energy leader by 2030. Overall, Fitchburg has an active political scene and a majority of voters who lean Democratic.
The political climate in Fitchburg, WI is moderately liberal.
Dane County, WI is very liberal. In Dane County, WI 75.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 22.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Dane county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 75.5% to 22.9%.
Dane county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Fitchburg, WI is moderately liberal.
Dane County, Wisconsin is very liberal.
Madison Metro Area is very 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.
Fitchburg, 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 if the Democratic Party candidate won and I if the Independent Party candidate won. 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 Fitchburg, WI
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 26,198 contributions totaling $3,398,631 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $130 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2,415 contributions totaling $650,301 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $269 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)