The politics in the Wisconsin Rapids-Marshfield, WI Metro Area are heavily influenced by local government and representatives. The area is represented in the United States House of Representatives by Sean Duffy, who was re-elected in 2018. The local Municipal Government consists of a Mayor and eight Alderpersons, as well as an array of other committees who manage the city’s various services and activities. Statewide, Wisconsin is governed by a Governor and Lieutenant Governor who were most recently elected in 2018. These representatives make decisions on how to fund education, infrastructure improvements, transportation, healthcare policies and more. Furthermore, the area also has its own elections for County Board Supervisors to determine how local politics will be run. All of these roles play an important part in determining how the region’s resources will be allocated so it can continue to grow and thrive.
The political climate in Wisconsin Rapids-Marshfield Metro Area is moderately conservative.
In Wisconsin Rapids-Marshfield Metro Area 39.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 58.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, the Wisconsin Rapids-Marshfield metro area remained very strongly Republican, 58.9% to 39.6%.
The Wisconsin Rapids-Marshfield metro area voted Republican in five of the last six Presidential elections (2008 went Democratic).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Wisconsin Rapids-Marshfield Metro Area is moderately 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.
Wisconsin Rapids-Marshfield, 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 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 four elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in Wisconsin Rapids-Marshfield Metro Area
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,860 contributions totaling $382,399 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $134 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 948 contributions totaling $248,742 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $262 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)