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The 2018 United States Senate election in Wisconsin took place on November 6, 2018, to elect a member of the
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Wisconsin Wisconsin ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States. It borders Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michig ...
. This election coincided with a
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and various other state and local elections. Incumbent Democratic senator
Tammy Baldwin Tammy Suzanne Green Baldwin (born February 11, 1962) is an American politician and lawyer serving since 2013 as the Seniority in the United States Senate, junior United States senator from Wisconsin. A member of the Democratic Party (United Stat ...
won re-election to a second term, defeating Republican nominee
Leah Vukmir Leah Vukmir (née Papachristou; born April 26, 1958) is an American politician and nurse who served as a member of the Wisconsin Senate. A Republican, she represented Wisconsin's 5th Senate district. She previously served in the Wisconsin Asse ...
by more than 10 percentage points. This was one of ten Democratic-held Senate seats up for election in a state
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won in the
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. The primary elections were held on August 14, with a filing deadline on June 1. Baldwin was unopposed for the Democratic nomination, while Vukmir defeated Charles Barman, Griffin Jones, George Lucia and Kevin Nicholson in the Republican primary.


Democratic primary


Candidates


Nominee

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Tammy Baldwin Tammy Suzanne Green Baldwin (born February 11, 1962) is an American politician and lawyer serving since 2013 as the Seniority in the United States Senate, junior United States senator from Wisconsin. A member of the Democratic Party (United Stat ...
, incumbent U.S. senator


Endorsements


Results


Republican primary


Candidates


Nominee

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Leah Vukmir Leah Vukmir (née Papachristou; born April 26, 1958) is an American politician and nurse who served as a member of the Wisconsin Senate. A Republican, she represented Wisconsin's 5th Senate district. She previously served in the Wisconsin Asse ...
, state senator and State Senate Assistant Majority Leader


Eliminated in primary

* Charles Barman * Griffin Jones * George Lucia * Kevin Nicholson, businessman and member of the Wisconsin Board of Veterans Affairs


Declined

* David Clarke, former
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Majority Leader * Mike Gallagher, U.S. representative *
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, state representative * Nicole Schneider, businesswoman *
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, state senator *
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, talk radio host * Scott Walker,
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( ''running'' for reelection)


Endorsements


Polling


Results


General election


Endorsements


Debates


Complete video of debate
October 8, 2018
Complete video of debate
October 13, 2018


Predictions


Polling

with Kevin Nicholson
with generic Republican
with David Clarke
with Sean Duffy


Results

Despite initial expectations of a potentially close race, Baldwin ended up winning by over 10 percentage points, which was the highest margin of victory for a Wisconsin Democratic statewide candidate in 2018. She ran up the margins in the traditional Democratic strongholds of Milwaukee and Madison, but also won in western Wisconsin, Green Bay and most of the counties bordering
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counties. This was the largest margin of victory for the Democrats in a major Wisconsin statewide campaign (presidential, senate, gubernatorial) since 2008.


Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

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(largest city: Marshfield)


Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

* Outagamie (largest city:
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(largest city: Green Bay)


By congressional district

As a result of partisan gerrymandering, Baldwin only won 3 out of the state's 8 Congressional districts, despite winning the election comfortably by over 10 percentage points.https://davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap::7d07ec5b-34c7-42a4-bd43-cc076bf366d6


See also

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2018 United States Senate elections The 2018 United States Senate elections were held on November 6, 2018. Among the 100 seats, the 33 of Classes of United States senators, Class 1 were contested in regular elections while two others were contested in special elections due to Sen ...
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2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election The 2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018. It occurred concurrently with a Senate election in the state, elections to the state's U.S. House seats, and various other elections. Incumbent Republican governo ...
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2018 Wisconsin elections The 2018 Wisconsin Fall general election was held in the U.S. state of Wisconsin on November 6, 2018. All of Wisconsin's partisan executive and administrative offices were up for election, as well as one of Wisconsin's U.S. Senate seats, Wiscon ...


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