Polk County, WI Voting


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Polk, WI County is an important political hub in Wisconsin. It plays a vital role in state and national elections, with the county's voting record always being closely watched. On the local level, Polk County features a variety of political candidates from all parties that are running for office. These candidates have very different views on many topics such as education, healthcare, taxation and more. They debate their stances during public forums and share their vision for how they want to improve the area and make it better for its citizens. The citizens of Polk County can learn more about each candidate by attending their events or visiting their websites to see where they stand on key issues. This allows people to make informed decisions when it comes time to cast their vote in local elections.

The political climate in Polk County, WI is strongly conservative.

In Polk County, WI 35.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 63.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.

In the last Presidential election, Polk county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 63.0% to 35.5%.
Polk county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.


The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index

Polk County, WI is strongly conservative.


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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.

Polk, Wisconsin: r r r 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 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 Polk County, WI

In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,661 contributions totaling $99,820 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $60 per contribution.

In the last 4 years, there were 412 contributions totaling $108,980 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $265 per contribution.

(source: Federal Election Commission)

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