Curtiss Reddest Village in November 4th Election
Thursday, December 4th, 2014 -- 12:27 PM
(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) -In the November election, Curtiss had the honor of being the reddest village in Wisconsin with Republican Governor Scott Walker getting 90% of the vote.According to an article in the Milwaukee Journal, the bluest community was the small town of Sanborn on the shores of Lake Superior, where Walker got 12% of the vote.
The gulf between Wisconsin's most Democratic and Republican places was massive on November 4th, even though the state as a whole was fairly evenly divided: the governor won re-election by 5.7 points, almost identical to his margin of 5.8 points four years earlier.
The Government Accountability Board posted certified, ward-by-ward election results on Monday. The Milwaukee Journal used that data to calculate how every one of Wisconsin's more than 1,800 cities, towns and villages voted in the contest between Walker and his Democratic challenger, Mary Burke.
Some highlights from the analysis include Walker winning 1,481 of the state's 1,852 communities. He also won a majority of the state's cities, but the governor's overall winning margin was limited by his massive losses in Milwaukee and Madison.
These local voting patterns are another reminder of the state's polarized geography.
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