GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) – Several counties across Wisconsin are reporting high voter turnout in Tuesday’s state election.
While the turnout doesn’t rival the 2024 presidential election, unofficial numbers show an increase in ballots cast compared to previous April elections.
No matter where you went in the state of Wisconsin, every county presented at least a 5% increase in voter turnout from the previous spring election.
Unofficial election results posted by Winnebago County note an increase of nearly 16,000 ballots compared to the 2023 spring election.
In Outagamie County, nearly 75,000 ballots were cast compared to just under 55,000 in April 2023.
Clerk Celestine Jeffreys with the city of Green Bay says the difference between the two spring elections is nearly a 5,000 ballot increase.
She tells me this increase in voters was something she and other clerks saw coming.
“Talking to some of my other clerk colleagues, they had also seen an uptick in interest in participation late last week. So on Monday, I ordered more ballots, so nobody had to call me, no poll worker had to call me yesterday to say ‘I’m out of ballots’,” said Jeffreys.
Political expert Jerald Podair tells me he believes the high voter turnout across Wisconsin is a contributing factor to the outcome of the statewide races. Most notably in northeast Wisconsin, we saw that Brown, Outagamie, and Winnebago counties, all with increased voter turnout compared to 2023, favored Crawford yesterday after casting more votes for Donald Trump in November.
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