2022_Wisconsin_gubernatorial_election

2022 Wisconsin gubernatorial election
Turnout	56.7% ( 4.5%)
	Evers: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90%; Michels: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90%; Tie: 40–50% 50%; No data
Governor before election; Tony Evers; Democratic	Elected Governor ; Tony Evers; Democratic

2022 Wisconsin gubernatorial election

Election for Governor of Wisconsin

The 2022 Wisconsin gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 2022, to elect the governor of Wisconsin. Incumbent Democratic governor Tony Evers won re-election to a second term by a margin of 3.4%, defeating Republican nominee Tim Michels.

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As Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes ran for the U.S. Senate in the concurrent election, a new Democratic running mate, state assemblywoman Sara Rodriguez, was nominated in the partisan primary. Barnes was the second lieutenant governor not to run with the incumbent governor since the state constitution was amended in 1967. The partisan primary was held on August 9, 2022, with businessman Tim Michels defeating former lieutenant governor Rebecca Kleefisch in the Republican primary. State senator Roger Roth received the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor.

This was the first gubernatorial election in Wisconsin since 2006 in which a Democrat won with an outright majority of the vote, the first since 1990 in which the winner was from the same party as the incumbent president, and the first since 1962 in which Wisconsin voted for a Democratic governor at the same time the party held the presidency. This was also the first gubernatorial election in the state since 1998 in which the winning candidate was of a different party than the winner of the concurrent U.S. Senate election. Evers's victory is considered a slight upset, as Evers was initially elected back in 2018 by a meager 1.1%, despite 2018 being considered a much more favorable year for Democrats than 2022. In addition, many polls showed Michels in the lead in the weeks leading up to the election. According to Ron Brownstein of CNN in 2023, Evers won independent voters by 6–7 percentage points, which contributed to Michels's defeat.^[1]

Evers did substantially better than Mandela Barnes did against Ron Johnson in suburban areas of the state in this election as well as compared to his initial election in 2018, chiefly in the "WOW" counties of Waukesha, Ozaukee, and Washington that form a ring around the north and west of Milwaukee, performing in line with Biden's 2020 margins. On the flip side, Michels did better in most rural areas than former governor Scott Walker had in 2018, winning the counties of Crawford, Grant, and Richland, three counties that Evers had previously won four years earlier. Michels also flipped the county of Kenosha. One exception to the trend toward Republicans in rural areas was Door County, which flipped to Evers after having voted for Walker in 2018. Notably, Evers carried the 3rd congressional district, which Republican Derrick Van Orden concurrently won after losing in 2020 to then-Representative Ron Kind; Evers also came within 0.2% of carrying the 1st congressional district.

General election

Polling

Aggregate polls

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Graphical summary

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Poll source	Date(s) administered	Sample size^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Margin of error	Tony Evers (D)	Tim Michels (R)	Joan Ellis Beglinger (I)	Other	Undecided
Civiqs	November 4–7, 2022	739 (LV)	± 3.7%	51%	48%	–	1%^{[lower-alpha 8]}	1%
Research Co.	November 4–6, 2022	450 (LV)	± 4.6%	48%	48%	–	–	4%
Data for Progress (D)	November 2–5, 2022	1,504 (LV)	± 2.0%	48%	50%	2%	–	–
The Trafalgar Group (R)	November 2–4, 2022	1,095 (LV)	± 2.9%	48%	50%	1%	–	2%
Marquette University	October 24 – November 1, 2022	802 (RV)	± 4.6%	44%	45%	5%	3%^{[lower-alpha 9]}	3%
Marquette University	October 24 – November 1, 2022	679 (LV)	± 4.8%	48%	48%	2%	–	1%
Siena College	October 27–31, 2022	655 (LV)	± 4.8%	47%	45%	–	2%^{[lower-alpha 10]}	6%
Fox News	October 26–30, 2022	1,000 (RV)	± 3.0%	46%	47%	–	3%^{[lower-alpha 11]}	4%
Wick Insights	October 26–30, 2022	1,089 (LV)	± 3.2%	47%	48%	–	2%^{[lower-alpha 12]}	4%
Emerson College	October 27–29, 2022	1,000 (LV)	± 3.0%	47%	48%	2%	<1%^{[lower-alpha 13]}	3%
Emerson College	October 27–29, 2022	1,000 (LV)	± 3.0%	48%	49%	2%	1%^{[lower-alpha 14]}	–
Patriot Polling	October 20–23, 2022	801 (LV)	–	46%	50%	–	4%
Data for Progress (D)	October 14–22, 2022	1,376 (LV)	± 3.0%	48%	49%	1%	–	2%
CNN/SSRS	October 13–17, 2022	905 (RV)	± 4.2%	50%	46%	–	4%^{[lower-alpha 15]}	–
CNN/SSRS	October 13–17, 2022	714 (LV)	± 4.5%	50%	48%	–	1%^{[lower-alpha 16]}	–
Marquette University	October 3–9, 2022	801 (RV)	± 4.3%	46%	41%	7%	2%^{[lower-alpha 17]}	3%
Marquette University	October 3–9, 2022	652 (LV)	± 4.8%	47%	46%	4%	2%^{[lower-alpha 18]}	1%
YouGov/CBS News	October 3–7, 2022	1,138 (RV)	± 3.7%	50%	50%	–	0%	0%
Public Policy Polling (D)	September 26–27, 2022	574 (V)	–	48%	46%	–	–	5%
Fox News	September 22–26, 2022	1,012 (RV)	± 3.0%	47%	47%	–	2%^{[lower-alpha 19]}	4%
Fabrazio Ward (R)/Impact Research (D)	September 18–25, 2022	1399 (LV)	± 4.4%	47%	50%	–	–	3%
Data for Progress (D)	September 20–23, 2022	999 (LV)	± 3.0%	47%	48%	2%	–	3%
The Trafalgar Group (R)	September 15–19, 2022	1087 (LV)	± 2.9%	47%	48%	–	2%	3%
Emerson College	September 16–18, 2022	860 (LV)	± 3.27%	45%	43%	4%	1%	7%
Big Data Poll (R)	September 17–18, 2022	852 (LV)	± 3.4%	42%	42%			14%
Siena College	September 14–15, 2022	651 (LV)	± 4.5%	49%	44%	–	2%^{[lower-alpha 20]}	5%
Civiqs	September 10–13, 2022	780 (LV)	± 3.7%	49%	48%	–	2%	3%
Marquette University	September 6–11, 2022	801 (RV)	± 4.3%	44%	43%	8%	1%	4%
Marquette University	September 6–11, 2022	632 (LV)	± 4.9%	47%	44%	5%	0%	3%
	September 4, 2022	Beglinger withdraws from the race
The Trafalgar Group (R)	August 22–25, 2022	1,091 (LV)	± 2.9%	48%	48%	–	2%	3%
OnMessage Inc. (R)^{[upper-alpha 6]}	August 22–24, 2022	600 (LV)	± 4.0%	48%	48%	–	–	4%
Fox News	August 12–16, 2022	1,006 (RV)	± 3.0%	49%	46%	–	1%	3%
Marquette University	August 10–15, 2022	811 (RV)	± 4.2%	45%	43%	7%	0%	5%
Marquette University	August 10–15, 2022	713 (LV)	± 4.5%	46%	44%	5%	0%	5%
Marquette University	June 14–20, 2022	803 (RV)	± 4.3%	48%	41%	–	2%	9%

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Hypothetical polling

Tony Evers vs. Rebecca Kleefisch

Tony Evers vs. Tim Ramthun

Tony Evers vs. Kevin Nicholson

Tony Evers vs. Jonathan Wichmann

Tony Evers vs. generic Republican

Results

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Results by county

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By county

	Evers Democratic		Michels Republican		Others		Margin		County Total
County	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#
Adams	3,860	38.96%	5,856	59.10%	192	1.94%	1,996	20.15%	9,908
Ashland	4,034	57.51%	2,905	41.41%	76	1.08%	1,129	16.09%	7,015
Barron	7,552	37.51%	12,246	60.83%	335	1.66%	4,694	23.31%	20,133
Bayfield	5,367	57.77%	3,843	41.36%	81	0.87%	1,524	16.40%	9,291
Brown	53,887	47.18%	58,986	51.65%	1,332	1.17%	5,099	4.46%	114,205
Buffalo	2,391	38.95%	3,638	59.27%	109	1.78%	1,247	20.32%	6,138
Burnett	2,964	36.40%	5,061	62.16%	117	1.44%	2,097	25.76%	8,142
Calumet	9,935	39.70%	14,828	59.25%	262	1.05%	4,893	19.55%	25,025
Chippewa	11,994	41.07%	16,792	57.50%	415	1.42%	4,798	16.43%	29,201
Clark	3,797	32.48%	7,690	65.77%	205	1.75%	3,893	33.30%	11,692
Columbia	14,168	51.57%	13,008	47.34%	300	1.09%	1,160	4.22%	27,476
Crawford	3,429	48.94%	3,486	49.76%	91	1.30%	57	0.81%	7,006
Dane	236,577	78.59%	62,300	20.70%	2,156	0.72%	174,277	57.89%	301,033
Dodge	13,240	33.88%	25,428	65.06%	414	1.06%	12,188	31.19%	39,082
Door	8,984	51.92%	8,145	47.07%	176	1.02%	839	4.85%	17,305
Douglas	10,606	56.90%	7,823	41.97%	210	1.13%	2,783	14.93%	18,639
Dunn	8,299	45.02%	9,899	53.70%	237	1.29%	1,600	8.68%	18,435
Eau Claire	28,063	57.91%	19,856	40.97%	542	1.12%	8,207	16.94%	48,461
Florence	655	26.02%	1,838	73.02%	24	0.95%	1,183	47.00%	2,517
Fond du Lac	16,598	35.53%	29,642	63.45%	478	1.02%	13,044	27.92%	46,718
Forest	1,452	34.65%	2,670	63.72%	68	1.62%	1,218	29.07%	4,190
Grant	9,234	45.95%	10,594	52.72%	266	1.32%	1,360	6.77%	20,094
Green	9,603	54.77%	7,681	43.81%	248	1.41%	1,922	10.96%	17,532
Green Lake	2,746	31.51%	5,864	67.29%	104	1.19%	3,118	35.78%	8,714
Iowa	6,837	58.55%	4,717	40.39%	124	1.06%	2,120	18.15%	11,678
Iron	1,259	38.62%	1,964	60.25%	37	1.13%	705	21.63%	3,260
Jackson	3,505	43.82%	4,375	54.69%	119	1.49%	870	10.88%	7,999
Jefferson	16,765	43.28%	21,488	55.48%	479	1.24%	4,723	12.19%	38,732
Juneau	4,048	37.70%	6,516	60.68%	174	1.62%	2,468	22.98%	10,738
Kenosha	32,176	48.70%	33,068	50.05%	829	1.25%	892	1.35%	66,073
Kewaunee	3,529	35.67%	6,229	62.96%	135	1.36%	2,700	27.29%	9,893
La Crosse	32,119	58.22%	22,325	40.47%	725	1.31%	9,794	17.75%	55,169
Lafayette	3,005	45.75%	3,498	53.25%	66	1.00%	493	7.50%	6,569
Langlade	2,958	32.74%	5,966	66.03%	111	1.23%	3,008	33.29%	9,035
Lincoln	5,226	38.56%	8,084	59.65%	242	1.79%	2,858	21.09%	13,552
Manitowoc	13,937	38.67%	21,573	59.86%	528	1.47%	7,636	21.19%	36,038
Marathon	25,163	40.74%	35,860	58.05%	747	1.21%	10,697	17.32%	61,770
Marinette	6,110	32.95%	12,164	65.61%	267	1.44%	6,054	32.65%	18,541
Marquette	2,697	36.75%	4,549	61.99%	92	1.25%	1,852	25.24%	7,338
Menominee	979	78.63%	254	20.40%	12	0.96%	725	58.23%	1,245
Milwaukee	246,073	70.94%	97,471	28.10%	3,345	0.96%	148,602	42.84%	346,889
Monroe	6,931	39.97%	10,153	58.55%	257	1.48%	3,222	18.58%	17,341
Oconto	5,910	30.25%	13,363	68.40%	264	1.35%	7,453	38.15%	19,537
Oneida	8,667	42.84%	11,297	55.84%	266	1.31%	2,630	13.00%	20,230
Outagamie	39,572	45.96%	45,601	52.96%	929	1.08%	6,029	7.00%	86,102
Ozaukee	23,104	44.12%	28,827	55.05%	436	0.83%	5,723	10.93%	52,367
Pepin	1,280	38.66%	1,990	60.10%	41	1.24%	710	21.44%	3,311
Pierce	7,967	44.19%	9,779	54.24%	283	1.57%	1,812	10.05%	18,029
Polk	7,587	37.11%	12,548	61.37%	310	1.52%	4,961	24.27%	20,445
Portage	17,947	53.29%	15,361	45.61%	373	1.11%	2,586	7.68%	33,681
Price	2,596	36.76%	4,369	61.87%	97	1.37%	1,773	25.11%	7,062
Racine	38,241	46.91%	42,359	51.96%	928	1.14%	4,118	5.05%	81,528
Richland	3,354	47.86%	3,562	50.83%	92	1.31%	208	2.97%	7,008
Rock	37,755	57.84%	26,722	40.94%	799	1.22%	11,033	16.90%	65,276
Rusk	2,180	34.13%	4,120	64.51%	87	1.36%	1,940	30.37%	6,387
Sauk	15,285	52.78%	13,348	46.09%	327	1.13%	1,937	6.69%	28,960
Sawyer	3,734	43.59%	4,735	55.28%	97	1.13%	1,001	11.69%	8,566
Shawano	5,853	32.63%	11,875	66.20%	209	1.17%	6,022	33.57%	17,937
Sheboygan	22,325	41.60%	30,679	57.17%	657	1.22%	8,354	15.57%	53,661
St. Croix	18,516	42.04%	24,968	56.70%	555	1.26%	6,452	14.65%	44,039
Taylor	2,262	25.99%	6,296	72.35%	144	1.65%	4,034	46.36%	8,702
Trempealeau	5,281	43.11%	6,813	55.62%	155	1.27%	1,532	12.51%	12,249
Vernon	6,597	49.97%	6,409	48.55%	195	1.48%	188	1.42%	13,201
Vilas	5,088	38.49%	7,983	60.39%	149	1.13%	2,895	21.90%	13,220
Walworth	18,569	40.43%	26,700	58.14%	657	1.43%	8,131	17.70%	45,926
Washburn	3,198	38.29%	5,032	60.26%	121	1.45%	1,834	21.96%	8,351
Washington	22,698	30.66%	50,749	68.55%	582	0.79%	28,051	37.89%	74,029
Waukesha	88,564	39.43%	134,212	59.76%	1,827	0.81%	45,648	20.32%	224,603
Waupaca	7,990	34.40%	14,939	64.32%	298	1.28%	6,949	29.92%	23,227
Waushara	3,766	33.21%	7,459	65.78%	115	1.01%	3,693	32.57%	11,340
Winnebago	36,512	48.87%	37,242	49.85%	958	1.28%	730	0.98%	74,712
Wood	13,624	41.29%	18,865	57.18%	503	1.52%	5,241	15.89%	32,992
Totals	1,358,774	51.15%	1,268,535	47.75%	29,181	1.10%	90,239	3.40%	2,656,490

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

Door (largest municipality: Sturgeon Bay)

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

Crawford (largest municipality: Prairie du Chien)
Grant (largest municipality: Platteville)
Kenosha (largest municipality: Kenosha)
Richland (largest municipality: Richland Center)

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[Key-21] Key:
A – all adults
RV – registered voters
LV – likely voters
V – unclear

[68] Fischer with 3%

[69] Fischer and "Someone else" with 2%

[71] "Someone else" with 2%; Fischer with 0%

[BeglingerLtGov-90] Beglinger withdrew prior to announcing a running mate

[HiselLtGov-92] Hisel withdrew prior to announcing a running mate

[139] Calculated by taking the difference of 100% and all other candidates combined.

[140] "Someone else" with 1%

[141] "Refused" with 3%

[142] "Another candidate" with 1%; "Not going to vote" with 1%

[143] "Other" with 2%; "Wouldn't vote" with 1%

[144] "Someone else" with 2%

[145] "Someone else" with <1%

[146] "Someone else" with 1%

[147] "Neither" with 3%; "Other" with 1%

[148] "Neither" with 1%

[149] "Other" with 1%; "Refused" with 1%

[150] "Other" with 1%; "Refused" with 1%

[151] "Wouldn't vote" with 1%;"Other" with 1%

[152] "Another candidate" with 1%, "Not going to vote" with 1%

[314A-22] This poll was sponsored by 314 Action Fund, which supports Rodriguez for lieutenant governor

[SAPF-70] This poll was sponsored by Sunrise in America Political Fund, which supports Michels

[MWorks-72] This poll was sponsored by Milwaukee Works, a local 501(c)(4)

[FFW-73] This poll was sponsored by Fight for Wisconsin, which supports Nicholson

[Kleefisch-74] This poll was sponsored by Rebecca Kleefisch's campaign

[SCWA-153] This poll was sponsored by School Choice Wisconsin Action

[Nelson-154] This poll was sponsored by Tom Nelson's campaign

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Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Tony Evers (incumbent)	491,656	100.0%
Total votes			491,656	100.0%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Sara Rodriguez	354,260	76.50%
	Democratic	Peng Her	108,766	23.49%
	Democratic	Angela Kennedy (write-in)	39	0.01%
Total votes			463,065	100.0

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Tim Michels	326,969	47.18%
	Republican	Rebecca Kleefisch	291,384	42.05%
	Republican	Timothy Ramthun	41,639	6.01%
	Republican	Kevin Nicholson (withdrawn)	24,884	3.59%
	Republican	Adam Fischer	8,139	1.17%
Total votes			693,015	100.0%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Roger Roth	178,972	30.16%
	Republican	Patrick Testin	109,374	18.43%
	Republican	Cindy Werner	80,953	13.64%
	Republican	Jonathan Wichmann	79,166	13.34%
	Republican	Will Martin	54,790	9.23%
	Republican	Kyle Yudes	32,051	5.40%
	Republican	David C. Varnam	30,640	5.16%
	Republican	David D. King	27,443	4.63%
Total votes			593,389	100.0%

Source	Ranking	As of
The Cook Political Report^[82]	Tossup	June 8, 2022
Inside Elections^[83]	Tossup	March 4, 2022
Sabato's Crystal Ball^[84]	Lean R (flip)	November 7, 2022
Politico^[85]	Tossup	April 1, 2022
RCP^[86]	Tossup	June 1, 2022
Fox News^[87]	Tossup	May 12, 2022
538^[88]	Tossup	October 7, 2022
Elections Daily^[89]	Lean R (flip)	November 7, 2022

Poll source	Date(s) administered	Sample size^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Margin of error	Eric Hovde	Rebecca Kleefisch	Tim Michels	Kevin Nicholson	Tim Ramthun	Jonathan Wichmann	Other	Undecided
Trafalgar Group (R)	Aug 6–8, 2022	1,092 (LV)	± 2.9%	–	43%	44%	3%	8%	–	3%^{[lower-alpha 2]}	–
Emerson College	Aug 3–5, 2022	900 (LV)	± 3.2%	–	36%	34%	6%	8%	–	2%^{[lower-alpha 3]}	14%
NMB Research (R)^{[upper-alpha 2]}	Jul 16–18, 2022	500 (LV)	± 4.4%	–	35%	43%	–	–	–	3%	19%
	Jul 5, 2022	Nicholson suspends his campaign
Marquette University	Jun 14–20, 2022	359 (LV)	± 6.3%	–	26%	27%	10%	3%	–	2%^{[lower-alpha 4]}	32%
Public Policy Polling (D)^{[upper-alpha 3]}	May 9–10, 2022	675 (LV)	± 3.8%	–	26%	27%	9%	6%	–	3%	29%
Marquette University	Apr 19–24, 2022	413 (LV)	± 5.6%	–	32%	–	10%	4%	–	3%	47%
Remington Research Group (R)^{[upper-alpha 4]}	Mar 31 – Apr 2, 2022	1,207 (LV)	± 2.9%	4%	42%	–	29%	–	–	–	26%
Marquette University	Feb 22–27, 2022	353 (LV)	± 5.8%	–	30%	–	8%	5%	–	1%	56%
WPA Intelligence (R)	Jan 18, 2022	– (LV)	–	3%	59%	–	8%	–	–	–	–
The Tarrance Group (R)^{[upper-alpha 5]}	Jan 10–13, 2022	800 (LV)	± 3.5%	–	65%	–	12%	–	–	–	23%
The Tarrance Group (R)^{[upper-alpha 5]}	Jan 10–13, 2022	800 (LV)	± 3.5%	–	61%	–	8%	–	5%	2%	24%

Source of poll aggregation	Dates administered	Dates updated	Tony Evers (D)	Tim Michels (R)	Joan Ellis Beglinger (I)	Undecided ^{[lower-alpha 7]}	Margin
RealClearPolitics	September 20 – November 1, 2022	November 1, 2022	48.2%	48.4%	–	3.4%	Michels +0.2
FiveThirtyEight	August 15 – November 2, 2022	November 2, 2022	47.5%	48.9%	2.2%	1.4%	Michels +1.4
Average			47.9%	48.7%	–	3.4%	Michels +0.8

Poll source	Date(s) administered	Sample size^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Margin of error	Tony Evers (D)	Jonathan Wichmann (R)	Other	Undecided
Redfield & Wilton Strategies	August 20–24, 2021	730 (RV)	± 3.6%	41%	34%	5%	14%
Redfield & Wilton Strategies	August 20–24, 2021	718 (LV)	± 3.7%	43%	36%	4%	12%

Poll source	Date(s) administered	Sample size^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Margin of error	Tony Evers (D)	Generic Republican	Undecided
Cygnal (R)	July 6–8, 2021	640 (LV)	± 3.9%	47%	48%	6%
Public Policy Polling (D)^{[upper-alpha 1]}	February 8–9, 2021	937 (V)	± 3.2%	45%	44%	11%

No.	Date	Host	Moderator	Link	Democratic	Republican
Key: P Participant A Absent N Non-invitee I Invitee W Withdrawn
					Tony Evers	Tim Michels
1	Oct. 14, 2022	WBAY-TV	Jill Geisler	YouTube	P	P

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Tony Evers (incumbent) Sara Rodriguez	1,358,774	51.15%	+1.61%
	Republican	Tim Michels Roger Roth	1,268,535	47.75%	-0.69%
	Independent	Joan Ellis Beglinger (withdrawn) N/A	27,198	1.02%	N/A
	Write-in		1,983	0.08%	+0.04%
Total votes			2,656,490	100.0%	-0.63%
Turnout			2,668,891	70.96%
Registered electors			3,760,845
	Democratic hold

District	Evers	Michels	Representative
1st	49.3%	49.5%	Bryan Steil
2nd	74%	26%	Mark Pocan
3rd	50%	49%	Ron Kind (117th Congress)
3rd	50%	49%	Derrick Van Orden (118th Congress)
4th	77%	21%	Gwen Moore
5th	39%	61%	Scott L. Fitzgerald
6th	42%	57%	Glenn Grothman
7th	40%	58%	Tom Tiffany
8th	43%	56%	Mike Gallagher

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