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 Darlington 
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 Madison, WI 

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  Governor  Scott Walker 1 12 +6.80%
  Lieutenant Governor  Rebecca Kleefisch 1 12 +5.90%
  Attorney General  J.B. Van Hollen 2 10 +15.66%
  Secretary of State  Douglas J. La Follette 9 10 +3.31%
  Treasurer  Kurt W. Schuller 1 10 +6.93%
   Superintendent of Public Instruction  Tony Evers 1 09 +14.41%
  President  Barack Obama 2 12 +6.84%
  Senate Class I  Tammy Baldwin 1 12 +5.55%
  Senate Class III  Ron Johnson 1 10 +4.84%
  WI - District 02  Mark Pocan 1 12 +36.00%
  1869 Statewide Referendum: Gubernatorial Salary  Yes 85 69 +6.27%
  1870 Statewide Referendum: Grand Jury  Yes 85 70 +44.87%
  1871 Statewide Referendum: Private and Local Laws  Yes 85 71 +87.28%
  1877 Statewide Referendum: Appropriations Only By Law  Yes 85 77 +81.49%
  1877 Statewide Referendum: One Chief and Four Associate Justices  Yes 85 77 +65.04%
  1886 Statewide Referendum: Woman Suffrage Upon School Matters  Yes 85 86 +5.55%
  1888 Statewide Referendum: State Superintendent - Election When Legislature Directs  No 91 88 +17.17%
  1889 Statewide Referendum: Supreme Court Composed of "Justices of Supreme Court"  Yes 85 89 +79.05%
  1892 Statewide Referendum: Forbidding Special Incorporation of Cities  Yes 85 92 +26.64%
  1898 Statewide Referendum: Revision of the State Banking Law  No 91 98 +3.20%
  1903 Statewide Referendum: Seven Justices of the Supreme Court  Yes 85 03 +12.63%
  1904 Statewide Referendum: Primary Law  Yes 85 04 +23.95%
  1908 Statewide Referendum: Approval of Bills by the Governor  Yes 85 08 +51.96%
  1908 Statewide Referendum: Electors  Yes 85 08 +40.38%
  1908 Statewide Referendum: Internal Improvements  Yes 85 08 +42.68%
  1908 Statewide Referendum: Taxes on Incomes, Privileges, and Occupations  Yes 85 08 +38.87%
  1910 Statewide Referendum: Apportionment  Yes 85 10 +1.97%
  1910 Statewide Referendum: Internal Improvements  Yes 85 10 +15.27%
  1910 Statewide Referendum: Legislative Compensation  No 91 10 +26.63%
  1912 Statewide Referendum: Acquisition of State Land  Yes 85 12 +17.66%
  1912 Statewide Referendum: Extending Time for Debts for Land  Yes 85 12 +14.00%
  1912 Statewide Referendum: Salary of Supreme Court Judges  Yes 85 12 +12.51%
  1912 Statewide Referendum: Women's Suffrage  No 91 12 +25.17%
  1919 Statewide Referendum: Soldier Bonus Law  Yes 85 19 +48.61%
  1920 Statewide Referendum: Decrease of Circuit Courts/Increase of Judges  No 91 20 +1.54%
  1920 Statewide Referendum: Pay of Legislators Fixed by Law  No 91 20 +2.34%
  1920 Statewide Referendum: Prohibition Enforcement  Yes 85 20 +35.44%
  1922 Statewide Referendum: Indebtedness of Municipal Corporations  No 91 22 +35.18%
  1922 Statewide Referendum: Sheriffs Succeeding Themselves  No 91 22 +12.37%
  1922 Statewide Referendum: Trial by Jury  Yes 85 22 +4.47%
  1924 Statewide Referendum: Additional Circuit Judges  Yes 85 24 +2.92%
  1924 Statewide Referendum: Appropriate Money for Forestry  Yes 85 24 +31.93%
  1924 Statewide Referendum: Home Rule for Cities and Villages  Yes 85 24 +22.37%
  1924 Statewide Referendum: Legislative Compensation Increase  No 91 24 +13.78%
  1926 Statewide Referendum: Memorializing Congress in Favor of Beer  Yes 85 26 +32.60%
  1926 Statewide Referendum: Recall of Elective Public Officers  Yes 85 26 +1.17%
  1926 Statewide Referendum: To Increase Compensation of Governor  Yes 85 26 +3.55%
  1929 Statewide Referendum: Decriminalization of Alcohol  Yes 85 29 +23.20%
  1929 Statewide Referendum: Legislators' Salaries  Yes 85 29 +5.42%
  1929 Statewide Referendum: Repeal of Severson Act  Yes 85 29 +26.58%
  1929 Statewide Referendum: Term of Sheriffs  Yes 85 29 +10.39%
  1930 Statewide Referendum: Governor's Veto  Yes 85 30 +24.35%
  1931 Statewide Referendum: County Distribution of Auto Licenses  No 91 31 +33.48%
  1932 Statewide Referendum: Municipal Indebtedness for Utilities  Yes 85 32 +17.86%
  1932 Statewide Referendum: Repealing Salary of Governor  Yes 85 32 +24.38%
  1932 Statewide Referendum: Repealing Salary of Lt. Governor  Yes 85 32 +23.12%
  1932 Statewide Referendum: Sunday Blue Law Repeal  Yes 85 32 +18.65%
  1933 Statewide Referendum: Ratification of Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment  Yes 85 33 +64.25%
  1934 Statewide Referendum: Old Age Pensions  Yes 85 34 +54.93%
  1934 Statewide Referendum: Suffrage  Yes 85 34 +42.29%
  1936 Statewide Referendum: Free Passes  Yes 85 36 +0.57%
  1940 Statewide Referendum: Installment Payment of Real Estate Taxes  Yes 85 40 +42.12%
  1940 Statewide Referendum: Teachers' Tenure Law  Yes 85 40 +4.03%
  1944 Statewide Referendum: Tax on General Property for High School Aids  No 91 44 +51.60%
  1945 Statewide Referendum: Justices of the Peace (First Class Cities)  Yes 85 45 +17.33%
  1945 Statewide Referendum: State Aeronautical Program  Yes 85 45 +29.81%
  1946 Statewide Referendum: Auditing of State Accounts  Yes 18 46 +21.91%
  1946 Statewide Referendum: Limitations to Office of Sheriff  No 13 46 +16.82%
  1946 Statewide Referendum: Transportation of School Children  No 13 46 +10.95%
  1947 Statewide Referendum: Daylight Saving Time  No 13 47 +9.62%
  1948 Statewide Referendum: Municipal Eminent Domain  No 13 48 +58.70%
  1948 Statewide Referendum: Veterans' Cash Bonus  No 13 48 +52.33%
  1949 Statewide Referendum: Taxation of Federal Land  No 13 49 +9.55%
  1949 Statewide Referendum: Veterans Housing  Yes 18 49 +3.46%
  1951 Statewide Referendum: Debt Limitation of Cities  Yes 18 51 +24.10%
  1951 Statewide Referendum: Four-Year Terms for Constitutional Officers  No 13 51 +21.84%
  1951 Statewide Referendum: Taxation of Federal Land  Yes 18 51 +24.26%
  1952 Statewide Referendum: Apportionment of Legislature  No 13 52 +4.40%
  1953 Statewide Referendum: Method of Reapportionment  Yes 18 53 +3.21%
  1953 Statewide Referendum: Terms of Justices and Judges  Yes 18 53 +5.72%
  1954 Statewide Referendum: Eligibility to Vote for President and Vice President  Yes 18 54 +14.03%
  1954 Statewide Referendum: Statewide Educational Television  No 13 54 +38.67%
  1955 Statewide Referendum: Judicial Retirement  Yes 18 55 +36.36%
  1955 Statewide Referendum: School Debt Limitation  Yes 18 55 +16.71%
  1956 Statewide Referendum: Dedication of Land  Yes 18 56 +32.12%
  1956 Statewide Referendum: Railroad Passes for Public Use  No 13 56 +33.66%
  1956 Statewide Referendum: Removing Limitation on Terms of Sheriffs  No 13 56 +9.84%
  1956 Statewide Referendum: Teacher's Retirement Benefits  Yes 18 56 +17.76%
  1957 Statewide Referendum: Daylight Saving Time  Yes 18 57 +9.25%
  1960 Statewide Referendum: Debt Limitation for Populous Counties  Yes 18 60 +12.89%
  1960 Statewide Referendum: Improvement of Port Facilities  Yes 18 60 +2.29%
  1961 Statewide Referendum: Classification of Property for Taxation  Yes 18 61 +26.80%
  1961 Statewide Referendum: Continuity of Civil Government  Yes 18 61 +57.97%
  1961 Statewide Referendum: Debt Limitation for School Districts  Yes 18 61 +29.17%
  1961 Statewide Referendum: Municipal Eminent Domain Proceedings  Yes 18 61 +14.61%
  1961 Statewide Referendum: Salary Increases for Public Officers  No 13 61 +1.74%
  1961 Statewide Referendum: Unlimited Tenure for Sheriffs  No 13 61 +15.59%
  1962 Statewide Referendum: County Executive Proceedings  Yes 18 62 +24.28%
  1962 Statewide Referendum: Creation of County Executives  Yes 18 62 +22.79%
  1962 Statewide Referendum: Deletion of 'Indians not taxed'  Yes 18 62 +41.73%
  1962 Statewide Referendum: Presidential Election Privilege  Yes 18 62 +46.45%
  1963 Statewide Referendum: Judicial Compensation  No 13 63 +21.66%
  1963 Statewide Referendum: Legislative Apportionment  No 13 63 +8.66%
  1963 Statewide Referendum: School Bonds  Yes 18 63 +11.50%
  1964 Statewide Referendum: Constitutional Amending Procedure  No 13 64 +29.38%
  1964 Statewide Referendum: Debt Limits of Local Governments  No 13 64 +25.88%
  1964 Statewide Referendum: Forestry Tax Appropriation  No 13 64 +9.79%
  1964 Statewide Referendum: Gasoline Tax Increase for Project 66 (Advisory)  No 13 64 +71.01%
  1965 Statewide Referendum: County Officers Amendment to Article VI  Yes 18 65 +27.70%
  1965 Statewide Referendum: Lottery Amendment to Article IV  Yes 18 65 +40.09%
  1966 Statewide Referendum: Debt Limits of Local Governments  Yes 18 66 +21.20%
  1966 Statewide Referendum: Justice of the Peace Abolition  Yes 18 66 +19.54%
  1966 Statewide Referendum: Legislators' Military Duty  Yes 18 66 +31.36%
  1967 Statewide Referendum: Changing Judicial Salaries During Term of Office  Yes 18 67 +19.76%
  1967 Statewide Referendum: Four-Year Term for Attorney General  Yes 18 67 +24.69%
  1967 Statewide Referendum: Four-Year Term for Governor and Lieutenant Governor  Yes 18 67 +26.50%
  1967 Statewide Referendum: Four-Year Term for Secretary of State  Yes 18 67 +25.03%
  1967 Statewide Referendum: Four-Year Term for State Treasurer  Yes 18 67 +24.05%
  1967 Statewide Referendum: Public Bus Transportation of Private School Students  Yes 18 67 +13.44%
  1967 Statewide Referendum: Single Ballot for Governor and Lieutenant Governor  Yes 18 67 +23.80%
  1967 Statewide Referendum: Successive Terms for Sheriff  Yes 18 67 +22.06%
  1968 Statewide Referendum: Forestry Appropriations and Taxation  Yes 18 68 +38.99%
  1968 Statewide Referendum: Frequency of Legislative Sessions  Yes 18 68 +42.90%
  1968 Statewide Referendum: Reserve Judge Service  Yes 18 68 +46.80%
  1968 Statewide Referendum: Retirement Date for Justices and Circuit Judges  Yes 18 68 +54.62%
  1969 Statewide Referendum: County Government Uniformity  Yes 18 69 +0.71%
  1969 Statewide Referendum: Recreational Lands  Yes 18 69 +5.66%
  1969 Statewide Referendum: State Debt  Yes 18 69 +22.81%
  1969 Statewide Referendum: Vocational Education Control and Funding by State  No 13 69 +16.69%
  1969 Statewide Referendum: Water Pollution Abatement  Yes 18 69 +28.80%
  1972 Statewide Referendum: County Coroner Option  Yes 18 72 +42.13%
  1972 Statewide Referendum: County Government Uniformity  Yes 18 72 +5.16%
  1972 Statewide Referendum: Released Time for Religious Instruction  Yes 18 72 +0.81%
  1972 Statewide Referendum: Use of School Buildings  Yes 18 72 +49.05%
  1974 Statewide Referendum: Removal of Judges by Address  Yes 18 74 +43.59%
  1974 Statewide Referendum: Retirement Benefits  Yes 18 74 +11.31%
  1974 Statewide Referendum: Taxation of Agricultural Lands  Yes 18 74 +1.85%
  1975 Statewide Referendum: Dueling  Yes 18 75 +16.64%
  1975 Statewide Referendum: Exclusions from Municipal Debt Limits  No 13 75 +4.24%
  1975 Statewide Referendum: Public Debt for Veterans Housing  Yes 18 75 +12.49%
  1975 Statewide Referendum: State Internal Improvements for Transportation Facilities  No 13 75 +0.03%
  1976 Statewide Referendum: Internal Improvements for Transportation Facilities  No 13 76 +12.82%
  1976 Statewide Referendum: Municipal Indebtedness  No 13 76 +37.12%
  1977 Statewide Referendum: Appeals Court  Yes 18 77 +33.01%
  1977 Statewide Referendum: Conduct of Raffle Games  Yes 18 77 +23.35%
  1977 Statewide Referendum: Court Reform  Yes 18 77 +38.86%
  1977 Statewide Referendum: Court System Disciplinary Proceedings  Yes 18 77 +57.73%
  1977 Statewide Referendum: Mandatory Retirement Age  Yes 18 77 +34.92%
  1978 Statewide Referendum: Overseas Voting  Yes 18 78 +11.36%
  1978 Statewide Referendum: Presidential Voting  Yes 18 78 +29.65%
  1978 Statewide Referendum: Town Government Uniformity  No 13 78 +36.34%
  1979 Statewide Referendum: Gubernatorial Succession  Yes 18 79 +48.39%
  1979 Statewide Referendum: Lieutenant Governor Vacancy  Yes 18 79 +49.70%
  1979 Statewide Referendum: Making the 4-Year Terms Understandable  Yes 18 79 +52.81%
  1979 Statewide Referendum: Senate Presiding Officer  Yes 18 79 +6.53%
  1980 Statewide Referendum: Voting in Public Inland Lake Protection and Rehabilitation Districts  Yes 18 80 +54.64%
  1981 Statewide Referendum: Bail Reform  Yes 18 81 +46.30%
  1981 Statewide Referendum: Banking Laws  Yes 18 81 +7.36%
  1981 Statewide Referendum: Creation of Corporations  Yes 18 81 +38.31%
  1981 Statewide Referendum: Metropolitan Sewage Debt  Yes 18 81 +21.32%
  1981 Statewide Referendum: Recall Elections  Yes 18 81 +17.05%
  1982 Statewide Referendum: Adjustment of Terms of Office for Justice of the Supreme Court  Yes 18 82 +66.92%
  1982 Statewide Referendum: County Responsibility for Acts of Sheriff  Yes 18 82 +17.99%
  1982 Statewide Referendum: Deletion of 1881 Transitional Provision  Yes 18 82 +58.75%
  1982 Statewide Referendum: Deletion of 1902 Transitional Provision  Yes 18 82 +62.45%
  1982 Statewide Referendum: Election of Legislative Officers  Yes 18 82 +66.92%
  1982 Statewide Referendum: Gender Neutral Wording  Yes 18 82 +23.37%
  1982 Statewide Referendum: Nuclear Weapons Moratorium (Advisory)  Yes 18 82 +51.56%
  1982 Statewide Referendum: Redistricting Correction  Yes 18 82 +44.38%
  1982 Statewide Referendum: Repeal of Draft Exemption Purchase  Yes 18 82 +50.02%
  1982 Statewide Referendum: Repeal of Obsolete Provisions Relating to the 1848 Transition from Territory to Statehood  Yes 18 82 +61.18%
  1982 Statewide Referendum: Repeal of Obsolete Provisions Relating to the 1977 Court Reorganization  Yes 18 82 +57.55%
  1983 Statewide Referendum: Radioactive Waste Disposal Site (Advisory)  No 13 83 +77.83%
  1986 Statewide Referendum: "Securing" the Inherent Rights of the People  Yes 18 86 +73.03%
  1986 Statewide Referendum: Deletion of Obsolete Provision  Yes 18 86 +57.76%
  1986 Statewide Referendum: Modernizing Constitutional Text  Yes 18 86 +66.10%
  1986 Statewide Referendum: Suffrage Defined by General Law  Yes 18 86 +65.70%
  1987 Statewide Referendum: Authorizing Pari-Mutuel On-Track Betting  Yes 18 87 +4.54%
  1987 Statewide Referendum: Authorizing the Creation of a Wisconsin State Lottery  Yes 18 87 +30.70%
  1989 Statewide Referendum: Authorizing Income Tax Credits for Property or Sales Taxes  No 13 89 +0.14%
  1990 Statewide Referendum: Limit Governor's Partial Veto Authority  Yes 18 90 +21.04%
  1991 Statewide Referendum: Affordable Housing  No 13 91 +15.33%
  1992 Statewide Referendum: Legislative Compensation Increases  Yes 18 92 +35.76%
  1992 Statewide Referendum: Property Tax Reduction  No 13 92 +38.91%
  1992 Statewide Referendum: Railway Improvement Bond Authorization  Yes 18 92 +16.65%
  1993 Statewide Referendum: Gambling Casinos on Excursion Vessels  No 13 93 +12.98%
  1993 Statewide Referendum: Lottery Definition and Divorce Provision  Yes 18 93 +17.83%
  1993 Statewide Referendum: Pari-Mutuel On-Track Betting  Yes 18 93 +3.90%
  1993 Statewide Referendum: Providing Rights for Victims of Crime  Yes 18 93 +68.16%
  1993 Statewide Referendum: Restriction of Gambling Casinos in the State  Yes 18 93 +21.64%
  1993 Statewide Referendum: State-Operated Lottery  Yes 18 93 +45.78%
  1993 Statewide Referendum: Video Poker and Other Forms of Video Gaming  No 13 93 +32.50%
  1995 Statewide Referendum: Eligibility of Judges for Nonjudicial Office  No 13 95 +12.58%
  1995 Statewide Referendum: Masculine Gender Pronouns  No 13 95 +9.53%
  1995 Statewide Referendum: Sports Lottery  No 13 95 +27.87%
  1996 Statewide Referendum: Eligibility of Convicted Persons to Hold Public Office  Yes 18 96 +40.81%
  1998 Statewide Referendum: Guaranteeing the Right to Keep and Bear Arms  Yes 18 98 +47.88%
  1998 Statewide Referendum: Sheriff Terms  Yes 18 98 +47.60%
  1999 Statewide Referendum: Distribution of State Lottery, Bingo and Pari-Mutuel Betting Proceeds for Property Tax Relief to State Residents  Yes 18 99 +71.92%
  2000 Statewide Referendum: Extend Right to Vote to Adult Children of US Citizens  Yes 18 00 +23.99%
  2003 Statewide Referendum: Right to fish, hunt, trap and take game.  Yes 18 03 +64.11%
  2005 Statewide Referendum: County Officeholder Terms  Yes 18 05 +50.26%
  2006 Statewide Referendum: Death Penalty (Advisory)  Yes 85 06 +11.04%
  2006 Statewide Referendum: Definition of Marriage  Yes 85 06 +18.87%
  2008 Statewide Referendum: Prohibit Partial Veto Authority  Yes 85 08 +41.21%
  WI State House 49   Travis Tranel 2 12 +8.54%
  WI State House 51   Howard Marklein 2 12 +3.78%
  WI State Senate 17  Dale Schultz 6 10 +25.19%
  WI State Senate 27  Jon Erpenbach 4 10 +23.70%
   Supreme Court Justice ('09)  Shirley Abrahamson 4 09 +19.40%
   Supreme Court Justice ('05)  Ann Walsh Bradley 2 05 +99.16%
  Supreme Court Justice ('06)  N. Patrick Crooks 2 06 +98.79%
   Supreme Court Justice ('11)  David T. Prosser Jr. 2 11 +0.47%
   Supreme Court Justice ('13)  Patience Drake "Pat" Roggensack 1 03 +2.40%
   Supreme Court Justice ('07)  Annette Ziegler 1 07 +17.44%
   Supreme Court Justice ('08)  Michael Gableman 1 08 +2.69%

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