Rusk County, Wisconsin plays an important role in the state's political landscape. The county’s local government is composed of 10 elected supervisors that lead the county’s legislative and executive branches. With respect to electing these supervising officials, the residents of Rusk County receive support from their state representatives and senators, who provide them with the information and resources they need to make informed decisions at the ballot box. During election season, many candidates from multiple political parties come to Rusk County to discuss their platforms and visit with local constituents. This helps create an engaged electorate that is highly involved in the democratic process and results in a healthy democracy within Rusk County.
The political climate in Rusk town (Rusk County), WI is strongly conservative.
Rusk County, WI is very conservative. In Rusk County, WI 31.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 66.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Rusk county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 66.7% to 31.9%.
Rusk county voted Republican in five of the last six Presidential elections (2008 went Democratic).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Rusk town (Rusk County), WI is strongly conservative.
Rusk County, Wisconsin is very conservative.
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.
Rusk town (Rusk County), Wisconsin: r r d r R R
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 Rusk town (Rusk County), WI
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 317 contributions totaling $31,427 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $99 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 82 contributions totaling $21,700 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $265 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)