2021 Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction election

2021 Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction election
April 6, 2021
 
Nominee Jill Underly Deborah Kerr
Popular vote 526,444 386,570
Percentage 57.57% 42.27%
County results
Underly:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%
Kerr:      50–60%      60–70%
Superintendent before election

Carolyn Stanford Taylor
Nonpartisan

 Elected Superintendent

Jill Underly
Nonpartisan

The 2021 Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction election was a nonpartisan state-wide election held on April 6, 2021, to elect the Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wisconsin for a four-year term. The election was won by Jill Underly, the superintendent of the Pecatonica Area School District, defeating former Brown Deer School District superintendent Deborah Kerr.

The incumbent superintendent, Carolyn Stanford Taylor, did not run for election to a full term; she had been appointed to the office in 2019 by governor Tony Evers. Evers had been the previously-elected superintendent, but resigned on January 7, 2019, after he was elected governor of Wisconsin.

Underly and Kerr advanced to the general election as the top two vote-getters in the February 16, 2021, nonpartisan primary, receiving 27% and 26% of the votes, respectively. Five other candidates were eliminated in the primary.

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