2016 Wisconsin State Assembly election explained

Election Name:	2016 Wisconsin State Assembly election
Country:	Wisconsin
Type:	legislative
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	2014 Wisconsin State Assembly election
Previous Year:	2014
Next Election:	2018 Wisconsin State Assembly election
Next Year:	2018
Seats For Election:	All 99 seats of the Wisconsin State Assembly 50 seats are needed for a majority
Turnout:	67.34%^[1]
Leader1:	Robin Vos
Party1:	Republican Party of Wisconsin
Leaders Seat1:	District 63
Last Election1:	63
Seats1:	64
Seat Change1:	1
Popular Vote1:	1,337,291
Percentage1:	51.7%
Leader2:	Peter W. Barca
Party2:	Democratic Party of Wisconsin
Leaders Seat2:	District 64
Last Election2:	36
Seats2:	35
Seat Change2:	1
Popular Vote2:	1,175,779
Percentage2:	45.5%
Speaker
Before Election:	Robin Vos
Before Party:	Republican Party of Wisconsin
After Election:	Robin Vos
After Party:	Republican Party of Wisconsin

An election was held on November 8, 2016 to elect all 99 members to Wisconsin's State Assembly. The election coincided with elections for other offices, including U.S. President, U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives and State Senate. The primary election was held on August 9, 2016.

Republicans consolidated their control of the Assembly by gaining one seat, winning 64 seats compared to 36 seats for the Democrats.^[2]

Results

Statewide

Statewide results of the 2016 Wisconsin State Assembly election:^[3]

Party	Candi- dates	Votes		Seats
No.	Candi- dates	%	No.	+/– !	%
		71		1,337,291	51.69%	64	1	64.65%
		79	1,175,779	45.45%	35	1	35.35%
		8	43,004	1.66%	0		0.00%
		3	12,092	0.47%	0		0.00%
	Veterans Party	1	1,580	0.06%	0		0.00%
	Scattering		17,425	0.67%	0		0.00%
Total	162	2,587,171	100.00%	99		100.00%

District

Results of the 2016 Wisconsin State Assembly election by district:^[3]

scope=col rowspan=3	District	scope=col colspan=2	Democratic	scope=col colspan=2	Republican	scope=col colspan=2	Others	scope=col colspan=2	Total	scope=col rowspan=3	Result
scope=col colspan=2 style="background:"	!	scope=col colspan=2 style="background:"	!	scope=col colspan=2	!	scope=col colspan=2
scope=col data-sort-type="number"	Votes !	scope=col data-sort-type="number"	% !	scope=col data-sort-type="number"	Votes !	scope=col data-sort-type="number"	% !	scope=col data-sort-type="number"	Votes !	scope=col data-sort-type="number"	% !	scope=col data-sort-type="number"	Votes !	scope=col data-sort-type="number"	%
	13,289	39.85%	20,044	60.11%	14	0.04%	33,347	100.00%	Republican Hold
	-	-	20,039	69.29%	8,881	30.71%	28,920	100.00%	Republican Hold
	11,969	39.46%	18,361	60.54%	-	-	30,330	100.00%	Republican Hold
	12,016	40.23%	17,817	59.65%	34	0.11%	29,867	100.00%	Republican Hold
	10,933	35.40%	19,941	64.58%	6	0.02%	30,880	100.00%	Republican Hold
	7,944	29.82%	18,690	70.15%	8	0.03%	26,642	100.00%	Republican Hold
	13,514	56.14%	9,212	38.27%	1,347	5.60%	24,073	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	8,528	98.45%	-	-	134	1.55%	8,662	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	12,142	97.97%	-	-	251	2.03%	12,393	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	21,228	99.11%	-	-	190	0.89%	21,418	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	18,418	98.76%	-	-	232	1.24%	18,650	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	18,642	98.42%	-	-	299	1.58%	18,941	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	-	-	23,904	96.99%	741	3.01%	24,645	100.00%	Republican Hold
	14,934	42.70%	20,001	57.19%	40	0.11%	34,975	100.00%	Republican Hold
	-	-	21,525	97.54%	542	2.46%	22,067	100.00%	Republican Hold
	18,019	98.43%	-	-	287	1.57%	18,306	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	21,715	99.07%	-	-	204	0.93%	21,919	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	18,006	98.87%	-	-	206	1.13%	18,212	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	26,732	97.54%	-	-	674	2.46%	27,406	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	21,222	97.02%	-	-	651	2.98%	21,873	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	11,338	40.53%	16,589	59.30%	48	0.17%	27,975	100.00%	Republican Hold
	-	-	26,131	97.82%	582	2.18%	26,713	100.00%	Republican Hold
	-	-	25,670	95.57%	1,190	4.43%	26,860	100.00%	Republican Hold
	-	-	24,047	96.48%	878	3.52%	24,925	100.00%	Republican Hold
	9,305	34.89%	17,325	64.97%	37	0.14%	26,667	100.00%	Republican Hold
	11,283	40.39%	16,583	59.36%	72	0.26%	27,938	100.00%	Republican Hold
	11,501	38.04%	18,644	61.66%	92	0.30%	30,237	100.00%	Republican Hold
	9,837	33.88%	17,612	60.66%	1,583	5.45%	29,032	100.00%	Republican Hold
	10,661	38.83%	16,774	61.10%	19	0.07%	27,454	100.00%	Republican Hold
	12,358	38.94%	17,790	56.05%	1,591	5.01%	31,739	100.00%	Republican Hold
	10,348	35.88%	18,465	64.02%	30	0.10%	28,843	100.00%	Republican Hold
	10,090	37.38%	16,862	62.47%	42	0.16%	26,994	100.00%	Republican Hold
	11,246	37.34%	18,851	62.59%	23	0.08%	30,120	100.00%	Republican Hold
	12,715	36.93%	21,686	62.99%	28	0.08%	34,429	100.00%	Republican Hold
	9,564	33.91%	18,622	66.02%	22	0.08%	28,208	100.00%	Republican Hold
	-	-	22,899	99.92%	18	0.08%	22,917	100.00%	Republican Hold
	10,990	38.10%	17,821	61.78%	37	0.13%	28,848	100.00%	Republican Hold
	12,288	37.20%	20,708	62.70%	33	0.10%	33,029	100.00%	Republican Hold
	9,192	32.57%	19,028	67.42%	2	0.01%	28,222	100.00%	Republican Hold
	9,801	35.41%	17,866	64.55%	11	0.04%	27,678	100.00%	Republican Hold
	-	-	17,711	70.55%	7,394	29.45%	25,105	100.00%	Republican Hold
	11,867	41.31%	16,842	58.63%	18	0.06%	28,727	100.00%	Republican Hold
	16,179	54.56%	13,427	45.28%	45	0.15%	29,651	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	19,948	98.51%	-	-	301	1.49%	20,249	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	17,867	98.00%	-	-	364	2.00%	18,231	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	24,678	98.19%	-	-	454	1.81%	25,132	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	19,154	68.47%	-	-	8,822	31.53%	27,976	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	26,534	98.76%	-	-	333	1.24%	26,867	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	11,344	42.94%	15,056	56.99%	18	0.07%	26,418	100.00%	Republican Hold
	10,762	42.13%	14,774	57.83%	11	0.04%	25,547	100.00%	Republican Hold
	13,189	48.62%	13,912	51.29%	23	0.08%	27,124	100.00%	Republican Hold
	9,829	36.24%	17,293	63.76%	-	-	27,122	100.00%	Republican Hold
	-	-	21,641	98.92%	236	1.08%	21,877	100.00%	Republican Hold
	17,923	69.46%	-	-	7,879	30.54%	25,802	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	11,523	38.46%	18,393	61.40%	42	0.14%	29,958	100.00%	Republican Hold
	11,551	35.45%	21,022	64.52%	10	0.03%	32,583	100.00%	Republican Hold
	19,048	98.68%	-	-	255	1.32%	19,303	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	-	-	25,457	98.13%	484	1.87%	25,941	100.00%	Republican Hold
	-	-	25,847	99.27%	189	0.73%	26,036	100.00%	Republican Hold
	-	-	23,806	74.87%	7,992	25.13%	31,798	100.00%	Republican Hold
	9,792	33.23%	19,622	66.59%	52	0.18%	29,466	100.00%	Republican Hold
	-	-	22,523	100.00%	-	-	22,523	100.00%	Republican Hold
	10,487	35.84%	18,771	64.16%	-	-	29,258	100.00%	Republican Hold
	18,799	97.67%	-	-	449	2.33%	19,248	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	16,112	97.84%	-	-	355	2.16%	16,467	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	13,526	81.32%	-	-	3,107	18.68%	16,633	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	10,308	35.69%	18,574	64.31%	-	-	28,882	100.00%	Republican Hold
	11,263	41.83%	15,628	58.05%	32	0.12%	26,923	100.00%	Republican Hold
	-	-	21,443	99.68%	69	0.32%	21,512	100.00%	Republican Hold
	10,266	37.68%	16,963	62.26%	18	0.07%	27,247	100.00%	Republican Hold
	21,834	98.90%	-	-	242	1.10%	22,076	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	12,279	43.45%	15,972	56.52%	6	0.02%	28,257	100.00%	Republican Hold
	22,107	98.17%	-	-	411	1.83%	22,518	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	22,624	99.36%	-	-	145	0.64%	22,769	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	10,894	37.97%	17,786	62.00%	9	0.03%	28,689	100.00%	Republican Hold
	33,628	82.77%	6,877	16.93%	124	0.31%	40,629	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	29,069	98.90%	-	-	323	1.10%	29,392	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	25,362	78.90%	-	-	6,782	21.10%	32,144	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	23,211	63.84%	13,105	36.04%	44	0.12%	36,360	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	26,250	98.19%	-	-	485	1.81%	26,735	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	17,270	60.49%	11,265	39.46%	14	0.05%	28,549	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	-	-	21,080	97.83%	467	2.17%	21,547	100.00%	Republican Hold
	-	-	26,596	98.79%	327	1.21%	26,923	100.00%	Republican Hold
	-	-	21,987	97.91%	470	2.09%	22,457	100.00%	Republican Hold
	12,837	46.52%	14,722	53.35%	35	0.13%	27,594	100.00%	Republican Hold
	11,142	35.43%	18,246	58.01%	2,063	6.56%	31,451	100.00%	Republican Hold
	8,554	31.98%	18,179	67.97%	12	0.04%	26,745	100.00%	Republican Hold
	11,312	38.88%	17,742	60.99%	37	0.13%	29,091	100.00%	Republican Hold
	9,055	31.78%	19,429	68.20%	5	0.02%	28,489	100.00%	Republican Hold
	14,387	97.92%	-	-	306	2.08%	14,693	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	17,780	60.87%	11,341	38.82%	90	0.31%	29,211	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	12,540	47.92%	13,605	51.99%	22	0.08%	26,167	100.00%	Republican GAIN
	-	-	24,298	98.49%	372	1.51%	24,670	100.00%	Republican Hold
	16,721	52.63%	15,049	47.37%	-	-	31,770	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	23,020	100.00%	-	-	-	-	23,020	100.00%	Democratic Hold
	10,186	38.89%	16,000	61.09%	5	0.02%	26,191	100.00%	Republican Hold
	-	-	21,611	97.63%	524	2.37%	22,135	100.00%	Republican Hold
	-	-	25,592	98.39%	419	1.61%	26,011	100.00%	Republican Hold
	-	-	28,597	98.86%	331	1.14%	28,928	100.00%	Republican Hold
Total	1,175,779	45.45%	1,337,291	51.69%	74,101	2.86%	2,587,171	100.00%

Notes and References

Web site: Voter Turnout Partisan - Non-Partisan Through April 2018 . . December 5, 2018 . Madison, U.S.A..
News: Marley . Patrick . Stein . Jason . GOP strengthens hold on Legislature . December 3, 2018 . . November 9, 2016 . Milwaukee, U.S.A..
Web site: Statewide Results All Offices (post-Presidential recount) . . December 1, 2018 . Madison, U.S.A..