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The 2011 Wisconsin Spring Primary was held February 15, 2011. [1] 2011 also saw the first set of recall elections incited by Governor Scott Walker's controversial 2011 Wisconsin Act 10, which stripped public employee unions of their collective bargaining rights. Nine state senators faced recall in the Summer of 2011, with two Republican seats ...
In the general election of April 5, 2011, Prosser again faced Kloppenburg. The contest received considerable attention due to the ongoing protests of Walker's budget repair bill and limitations on public employee bargaining rights; issues which would likely soon come before the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
The 2011 Wisconsin Senate recall elections were a series of recall elections for nine Wisconsin state senators held on July 16, 2011, August 9, 2011, and August 16, 2011. Nine of the 33 seats in the Wisconsin Senate were up for election—all even-numbered districts. were held during the summer of 2011; one was held on July 19, and six on August 9, with two more held on August 16.
Since 1988, Wisconsin has leaned towards the Democratic Party in presidential elections, although Republican Donald Trump won the state by a margin of 0.77 percentage points. Wisconsin is tied with Michigan and Pennsylvania for the longest active streak of voting for the winning candidate, last voting for a losing candidate in 2004.
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While many locales have strong political identities, Wisconsin is a purple state where major elections are frequently decided by narrow margins — and candidates must align enough groups to ...
Lessons from Election 2011 "State Elections Legislation Database", Ncsl.org, Washington, D.C.: National Conference of State Legislatures, State legislation related to the administration of elections introduced in 2011 through this year; 2011 state legislative elections on Ballotpedia; 2011 ballot measures and potential 2011 ballot measures on ...
Wisconsin is currently divided into 8 congressional districts, each represented by a member of the United States House of Representatives. After the 2020 census, the number of Wisconsin's seats remained unchanged. Wisconsin’s congressional districts are an example of partisan gerrymandering, in this case in favor of the Republican Party.