Here's How Waukesha County Voters Cast Their Ballots In The Midterms

WAUKESHA, WI — After months of campaigns and hours of commercials for consequential political races across the Badger State, the dust is settling from the midterms and Wisconsinites are becoming acquainted with their new local, state and federal leaders.

Waukesha County had around 81 percent voter turnout this time around, according to unofficial results. Out of 276,845 registered voters, 225,564 cast a ballot.

Much of Waukesha County, Wisconsin's third-most populous county, voted for Republicans this time around in major races, according to unofficial results.

The county favored Donald Trump over Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, while in 2018 Waukesha county voters favored Republican Scott Walker for governor, although he ended up losing to Tony Evers.

Evers, a Democrat, saw 88,554 ballots from Waukesha County in his 2022 race for governor, while Republican Michels received 134,199 ballots, according to unofficial results. Results remain unofficial until they are certified.

Meanwhile, Waukesha County voters cast 140,142 ballots for incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Ron Johnson and 83,398 for Democratic challenger and current Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes.

Voters in Waukesha County also got the chance to respond to advisory referendums about elections.

The first referendum asked voters if the Wisconsin Legislature should seek to change the Wisconsin constitution to require that election administration and ballots are as uniform as practicable.

Seventy-nine percent of voters, or 163,100, responded "yes" while 42,937 responded "no," unofficial results showed.

The second referendum asked voters if the Legislature should seek to ban "non-governmental entities and any individual other than election officials designated by law from funding, managing or performing any task in election administration."

For the second referendum, 148,616 voters responded "yes" and 56,039 voters responded "no."