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Lafayette
City
Darlington
Attached Containers
Marketing Area
Madison, WI
Sub-Races
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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