Dane, Milwaukee counties fueled Democratic wins; college students also helped
The key to Tuesday’s stunning Democratic upset of Wisconsin’s eight-year Republican lock on state government came from a blue tsunami in Wisconsin’s largest counties and possibly a smaller wave on college campuses around the state.
Democratic Gov.-elect Tony Evers won Dane and Milwaukee counties by about 75,000 more votes than Gov. Scott Walker’s 2014 challenger Mary Burke. Evers’ statewide edge was about 31,000 votes, or 1.2 percentage points.
Meanwhile Walker received about 600 fewer votes in the Republican stronghold of Waukesha County than he did in 2014. Evers received almost 18,000 more votes than Burke in that suburban Milwaukee county.
Statewide turnout of nearly 60 percent of the voting age population was the highest for a Wisconsin midterm election in at least 20 years.
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