| Election Name: | 2022 Wisconsin elections |
| Country: | Wisconsin |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2021 Wisconsin elections |
| Previous Year: | 2021 |
| Next Election: | 2023 Wisconsin elections |
| Next Year: | 2023 |
| Election Date: | April 5, 2022 November 8, 2022 |
The 2022 Wisconsin fall general election was held in the U.S. state of Wisconsin on November 8, 2022. All of Wisconsin's partisan executive and administrative offices were up for election, as well as one of Wisconsin's U.S. Senate seats, and Wisconsin's eight seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. The fall election also filled the seventeen odd-numbered seats in the Wisconsin Senate and all 99 seats in the Wisconsin State Assembly for the 106th Wisconsin Legislature. The 2022 Wisconsin fall primary was held on August 9, 2022.
The parties split the major state-wide races, with Democrats retaining the offices of governor and attorney general and Republicans retaining the U.S. Senate seat. Republicans gained one seat in the U.S. House delegation, taking the vast western 3rd congressional district following the retirement of 13-term Democratic congressman Ron Kind. Republicans also picked up one seat in the State Senate, reaching a supermajority. They also flipped one seat in the State Assembly, but fell three seats short of a supermajority in that chamber.
The 2022 Wisconsin spring election was held April 5, 2022. Three seats of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals were up in this election, as well as various nonpartisan local and judicial offices, including a special election for mayor of Milwaukee. The 2022 spring primary was held February 15, 2022.
These were the first elections held after the redistricting of the state following the 2020 United States census. The redistricting process could not be completed through the normal legislative process, and was handled by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which selected the Republican Party's preferred map.
See main article: 2022 United States Senate election in Wisconsin. Incumbent Republican Ron Johnson won a third six-year term, defeating the Democratic nominee, lieutenant governor Mandela Barnes.[1]
Five other Democrats registered to run in the Democratic primary: State treasurer Sarah Godlewski, Milwaukee Bucks executive Alex Lasry, former Assembly majority leader Tom Nelson, businessman Adam Murphy, and attorney Peter Peckarsky.[2] [3] Barnes emerged from the primary after most of his prominent opponents withdrew from the race.
See main article: 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin. The 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin were held on November 8, 2022, to elect Wisconsin's delegation to the United States House of Representatives for the 118th United States Congress. A primary election for these offices was held August 9, 2022.
At the time of the 2022 election, Wisconsin had eight congressional districts, of which five were represented by Republicans and three were represented by Democrats.[4] Seven of the eight incumbents ran for and won re-election - Bryan Steil (WI-01), Mark Pocan (WI-02), Gwen Moore (WI-04), Scott Fitzgerald (WI-05), Glenn Grothman (WI-06), Tom Tiffany (WI-07), and Mike Gallagher (WI-08).
These were the first congressional elections in Wisconsin under new districts, reflecting the 2020 United States census. The 2022 congressional district maps were Governor Tony Evers' "maps of least change" selected by the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
| District | Incumbent | This race | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Location | Representative | Results | Candidates | |||||||
| data-sort-value=7 | R+7 | 2018 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | ||||||
| data-sort-value=-18 | D+18 | 2012[5] | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | ||||||
| data-sort-value=4 | R+4 | 1996 | Incumbent retired. New member elected. Republican gain. | nowrap | ||||||
| data-sort-value=-25 | D+25 | 2004 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | ||||||
| data-sort-value=11 | R+11 | 2020 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | ||||||
| data-sort-value=10 | R+10 | 2014 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | ||||||
| data-sort-value=12 | R+12 | 2020 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | ||||||
| data-sort-value=10 | R+10 | 2016 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | ||||||
All of Wisconsin's partisan executive offices were up for election in November 2022 with partisan primaries held on August 9.
See main article: 2022 Wisconsin gubernatorial election. Incumbent Democratic governor Tony Evers, first elected in 2018, was re-elected to a second four-year term.[6] [4] He defeated the Republican nominee, businessman Tim Michels.
In the Republican primary, Michels defeated former lieutenant governor Rebecca Kleefisch, state representative Timothy Ramthun, and former police officer Adam J. Fischer. Kevin Nicholson, another prominent Wisconsin businessman, withdrew from the race before the primary.
Incumbent Democratic lieutenant governor Mandela Barnes, first elected in 2018, did not run for re-election - he instead ran for United States Senate.[7] State representative Sara Rodriguez won the Democratic nomination and was elected as a ticket with Tony Evers. State Senator Roger Roth won the Republican primary for lieutenant governor.
Other candidates in the Democratic primary included Peng Her, the CEO of Hmong Institute, and state representative David Bowen (Wisconsin politician). Bowen did not file papers to be on the ballot and subsequently suspended his campaign.[8] State senator Lena Taylor initially declared an intention to run for the office, but dropped out in December 2021, six months before the filing deadline.[9]
Other Republican candidates included state senate president pro tempore Patrick Testin, Lancaster mayor David Varnam, David King, Jonathan Wichmann, Will Martin, Kyle Yudes, Cindy Werner, and Ben Voelkel.[10]
See main article: 2022 Wisconsin Attorney General election. Incumbent Democratic attorney general Josh Kaul, first elected in 2018, was re-elected to a second four-year term.[11] [4] He defeated the Republican nominee, Fond du Lac County district attorney Eric Toney.[12] [13] [14]
Toney defeated former state representative Adam Jarchow and attorney Karen Mueller, from Chippewa Falls, in the Republican primary.
See main article: 2022 Wisconsin Secretary of State election. Incumbent Democratic secretary of state Doug La Follette, first elected in 1974, narrowly won his 12th four-year term, defeating the Republican candidate, state representative Amy Loudenbeck.[15]
La Follette defeated Alexia Sabor, the chair of the Dane County Democratic Party, in the Democratic primary.
Other Republican primary candidates included Justin D. Schmidtka and Jay Schroeder, the party's 2018 nominee.[16]
Sharyl R. McFarland ran as the Wisconsin Green Party nominee, and Neil Harmon ran on the Libertarian Party ticket.
See main article: 2022 Wisconsin State Treasurer election. Incumbent Democratic state treasurer Sarah Godlewski, first elected in 2018, did not run for re-election - she instead sought the Democratic nomination for United States Senate.[17] The election was won by Republican John Leiber, a lawyer from Racine County, Wisconsin. He defeated Democrat Aaron Richardson, the mayor of Fitchburg, Wisconsin.
Other candidates in the Democratic primary included West Allis city councilmember Angelito Tenorio[18] and radiologist Gillian Battino. Former state treasurer Dawn Marie Sass also circulated nomination papers but missed the filing deadline.
On the Republican side Orlando Owens, a pastor and staffer for U.S. senator Ron Johnson, received the state Republican Party's endorsement,[19] but he lost the primary to Leiber.
Andrew Zuelke ran as the Constitution Party nominee.
See main article: 2022 Wisconsin State Senate election. The 17 odd-numbered districts out of the 33 seats in the Wisconsin Senate were up for election in 2022. Republicans won 12 of those 17 seats, for a net gain of one seat, giving them a supermajority in this chamber going into the 106th Wisconsin Legislature.
These were the first state senate elections in Wisconsin under new districts, reflecting the 2020 United States census. The 2022 state senate maps were the Republican Legislature's "maps of least change" selected by the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
| Seats | Party (majority caucus shading) | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Republican | ||||
| nowrap style="font-size:80%" colspan=2 | Total after last election (2020) | 12 | 21 | 33 | |
| nowrap style="font-size:80%" colspan=2 | Total before this election | 12 | 21 | 33 | |
| Up for election | 6 | 11 | 17 | ||
| nowrap style="background:#ccc" colspan=2 | This election | 5 | 12 | 17 | |
| nowrap style="font-size:80%" colspan=2 | Total after this election | 11 | 22 | 33 | |
| nowrap style="font-size:80%" colspan=2 | Change in total | 1 | 1 | ||
See main article: 2022 Wisconsin State Assembly election. All 99 seats in the Wisconsin State Assembly were up for election in 2022. Republicans won 64 of those seats, for a net gain of three seats. They fell short of their goal of 66 seats, which would have given them a supermajority.
These were the first state assembly elections in Wisconsin under new districts, reflecting the 2020 United States census. The 2022 state assembly maps were the Republican Legislature's "maps of least change" selected by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, maintaining Wisconsin's already heavily gerrymandered districts.
| Seats | Party (majority caucus shading) | Total | Vacant | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Republican | |||||
| nowrap style="font-size:80%" colspan=2 | Total after last election (2020) | 38 | 61 | 99 | 0 | |
| nowrap style="font-size:80%" colspan=2 | Total before this election | 38 | 57 | 95 | 4 | |
| Up for election | 38 | 57 | 95 | 4 | ||
| This election | 35 | 64 | 99 | 0 | ||
| nowrap style="font-size:80%" colspan=2 | Total after this election | 35 | 64 | 99 | 0 | |
| nowrap style="font-size:80%" colspan=2 | Change in total | 3 | 3 | |||
Three seats on the Wisconsin Court of Appeals were up for election in April 2022.
Forty six of the state's 257 circuit court seats were up for election in April 2022.[20] Nine of those seats were contested.[21] One of the contested seats, in Vilas County, was newly created from a 2020 act of the Wisconsin Legislature.[22] Three other newly created seats, in Adams, Eau Claire, and Vilas counties, had only one candidate running.[21] Only three incumbent judges faced a contested re-election,[21] and only one incumbent judge lost her election - LaKeisha Haase of Winnebago County, who had been appointed a year earlier by Governor Tony Evers.[23]
| Circuit | Branch | Incumbent | Elected | Defeated | Defeated in primary | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Votes | % | Name | Votes | % | ||||
| Adams | 2 | --New seat-- | Tania M. Bonnett | 2,014 | 98.24% | ||||
| Barron | 1 | James C. Babler | James C. Babler | 6,524 | 99.62% | ||||
| Crawford | Lynn Marie Ryder | Lynn Marie Ryder | 1,521 | 98.83% | |||||
| Dane | 3 | Valerie L. Bailey-Rihn | Diane Schlipper | 59,011 | 99.15% | ||||
| 4 | Everett Mitchell | Everett Mitchell | 59,312 | 99.01% | |||||
| 5 | Nicholas J. McNamara | Nicholas J. McNamara | 58,155 | 99.15% | |||||
| 14 | John D. Hyland | John D. Hyland | 58,064 | 99.09% | |||||
| 15 | Stephen Ehlke | Stephen Ehlke | 58,090 | 99.16% | |||||
| Eau Claire | 1 | John F. Manydeeds | John F. Manydeeds | 13,721 | 98.81% | ||||
| 6 | --New seat-- | Beverly Wickstrom | 13,046 | 98.71% | |||||
| Fond du Lac | 2 | Peter L. Grimm | Laura Lavey | 11,164 | 99.97% | ||||
| 4 | Gary R. Sharpe | Tricia L. Walker | 10,854 | 99.91% | |||||
| 5 | Paul G. Czisny | Douglas R. Edelstein | 10,684 | 99.96% | |||||
| Iowa | Margaret M. Koehler | Matt Allen | 3,170 | 65.19% | Rhonda R. Hazen | 1,689 | 34.73% | ||
| Kewaunee | Keith A. Mehn | Jeffrey R. Wisnicky | 2,720 | 62.41% | Kimberly A. Hardtke | 1,628 | 37.36% | John Peterson | |
| Lincoln | 1 | Jay R. Tlusty | Galen Bayne-Allison | 5,479 | 99.20% | ||||
| Marathon | 2 | Gregory Huber | Rick Cveykus | 16,753 | 67.91% | William A. Harris | 7,891 | 31.98% | |
| Milwaukee | 5 | Kristela Cervera | Kristela Cervera | 89,969 | 98.53% | ||||
| 14 | Christopher R. Foley | Christopher R. Foley | 91,898 | 98.62% | |||||
| 25 | Stephanie Rothstein | Nidhi Kashyap | 87,737 | 98.52% | |||||
| 31 | Hannah C. Dugan | Hannah C. Dugan | 89,206 | 98.42% | |||||
| 34 | Glenn H. Yamahiro | Glenn H. Yamahiro | 89,065 | 98.51% | |||||
| 44 | Gwen Connolly | Gwen Connolly | 89,591 | 98.74% | |||||
| 45 | Jean Marie Kies | Jean Marie Kies | 87,965 | 98.70% | |||||
| Monroe | 2 | Mark L. Goodman | Mark L. Goodman | 6,343 | 99.34% | ||||
| Oconto | 2 | Jay N. Conley | Jay N. Conley | 5,822 | 73.43% | Ed Burke | 2,093 | 26.40% | |
| Outagamie | 4 | Yadira Rein | Yadira J. Rein | 18,167 | 100.0% | ||||
| 7 | Mark G. Schroeder | Mark G. Schroeder | 18,352 | 100.0% | |||||
| Pierce | Elizabeth Rohl | Elizabeth Rohl | 5,748 | 99.34% | |||||
| Portage | 2 | Robert J. Shannon | Louis J. Molepske Jr. | 9,454 | 56.17% | Stephen W. Sawyer | 7,357 | 43.71% | |
| 3 | Patricia Baker | Patricia Baker | 11,421 | 98.97% | |||||
| Racine | 2 | Eugene Gasiorkiewicz | Eugene Gasiorkiewicz | 18,273 | 98.47% | ||||
| 4 | Mark Nielsen | Mark Nielsen | 18,444 | 98.86% | |||||
| 5 | Kristin Cafferty | Kristin Cafferty | 18,258 | 98.87% | |||||
| Rusk | Steven P. Anderson | Annette Barna | 2,010 | 96.68% | |||||
| Sauk | 1 | Michael P. Screnock | Michael P. Screnock | 5,557 | 51.66% | Blake J. Duren | 5,199 | 48.34% | |
| 2 | Wendy J. N. Klicko | Wendy J. N. Klicko | 8,446 | 100.0% | |||||
| St. Croix | 4 | R. Michael Waterman | R. Michael Waterman | 11,076 | 99.00% | ||||
| Vilas | 1 | Martha Milanowski | Martha Milanowski | 3,766 | 99.58% | ||||
| 2 | --New seat-- | Daniel Overbey | 2,597 | 56.20% | Meg Colleen O'Marro | 2,017 | 43.65% | ||
| Walworth | 2 | Daniel S. Johnson | Daniel S. Johnson | 12,028 | 99.02% | ||||
| 4 | David M. Reddy | David M. Reddy | 12,055 | 99.03% | |||||
| Waushara | 2 | align=center | --New seat-- | Scott C. Blader | 3,154 | 99.15% | |||
| Winnebago | 3 | Barbara Hart Key | Bryan D. Keberlein | 13,745 | 54.49% | Lisa Krueger | 11,421 | 45.27% | |
| 4 | LaKeisha Haase | Mike Gibbs | 13,786 | 53.23% | LaKeisha Haase | 12,081 | 46.64% | ||
| 5 | John Jorgensen | John Jorgensen | 19,418 | 98.91% | |||||
See main article: 2022 Milwaukee mayoral special election.