2018 Wisconsin State Assembly election

2018 Wisconsin State Assembly election
November 6, 2018
All 99 seats in the Wisconsin State Assembly
50 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Robin Vos Gordon Hintz
Party Republican Democratic
Leader's seat 63rd–Rochester 54th–Oshkosh
Last election 64 seats, 51.69% 35 seats, 45.45%
Seats won 63 36
Seat change 1 1
Popular vote 1,103,505 1,306,878
Percentage 44.75% 52.99%
Swing 6.94 pp 7.54 pp
Results:
     Republican hold
     Democratic gain      Democratic hold
Vote share:
     50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      >90%
     40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90%
Speaker before election

Robin Vos
Republican

 Speaker-designate

Robin Vos
Republican

The Wisconsin State Assembly elections of 2018 were held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. All 99 seats in the Wisconsin State Assembly were up for election. The Republican Party maintained a majority it had held since 2011, winning 63 seats, losing one seat, and receiving 44.75% of the voting share. Despite winning a majority of ballots cast, the Democratic Party won only 36 seats, thus remaining a minority and gaining just one seat from the Republicans, District 14.

Democratic votes were concentrated in urban areas such as Milwaukee and Madison, while Republicans garnered votes in more rural areas, which was widely attributed to the impact of gerrymandering in the post-2010 state redistricting. Based on the 2018 results, the tipping point district was District 29, which the Republicans won by a margin of 12.12%. Democrats would have needed to win the statewide popular vote by a margin of 20.36% to win a majority of seats.

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