Editing Waukesha County, Wisconsin (section)

==Politics==
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|162,768|108,478|4,541|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|159,649|103,906|4,441|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|142,543|79,224|15,826|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|162,798|78,779|2,279|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|145,152|85,339|2,406|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|154,926|73,626|1,811|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|133,105|64,319|6,310|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|91,729|57,354|16,389|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|91,461|50,270|37,451|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|90,467|57,598|828|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|92,426|47,313|921|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|81,059|46,612|11,477|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|70,418|47,487|3,048|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|59,399|34,573|3,650|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|47,557|31,947|7,000|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|35,502|39,796|131|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|39,380|28,963|76|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|35,212|15,496|376|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|30,238|15,756|117|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|17,324|13,952|674|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|17,995|13,038|293|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|16,726|12,859|358|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|8,921|14,982|1,291|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|8,538|13,487|584|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|12,218|7,846|247|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|7,026|1,965|6,468|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|8,665|2,759|673|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|3,768|4,192|375|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|2,714|3,594|1,055|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|4,758|3,206|546|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|5,247|2,693|438|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|5,127|3,016|275|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1896|Republican|5,411|3,192|277|Wisconsin}}
{{PresFoot|1892|Democratic|3,600|3,635|337|Wisconsin}}Waukesha County is the largest [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]-leaning county in Wisconsin and has been one of the most Republican suburban counties in the nation for many years. It is one of the [[WOW counties]], which share similar traits in suburban [[Milwaukee]]. Although the county's Republican lean has somewhat lessened since the 2010s, the county is still a Republican stronghold.

It has not supported a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] for president since 1964, and has only supported a Democrat four other times since 1892. While other non-[[Southern United States|Southern]] suburban counties have moved towards Democrats since the 1990s, Waukesha and the other WOW counties have continued to vote solidly Republican.<ref name="Upshot">{{cite news|last=Cohn|first=Nate|title=The Curious Case of Milwaukee's Suburban Voters|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/07/upshot/the-curious-case-of-milwaukees-suburban-voters.html?rref=upshot|access-date=May 7, 2014|newspaper=New York Times|date=May 6, 2014}}</ref> Underlining this, [[Lyndon Johnson]]'s narrow win in 1964 is the last time that a Democratic presidential candidate has even garnered 40 percent of the county's vote, though [[Jimmy Carter]], [[Michael Dukakis]], [[Joe Biden]], and [[Kamala Harris]] came close. In 2008, [[John McCain]] carried the county by a 25.7% margin over [[Barack Obama]], when Obama won Wisconsin by 13.9% over McCain.<ref>[http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/index.html 2008 U.S. Presidential Election Results]</ref> In 2024, [[Kamala Harris]] became the first Democrat since [[1976 United States presidential election in Wisconsin|1976]] to lose the county by less than 20 percentage points.

=== 2011 Supreme Court election ===
The initial unofficial statewide tally in the [[2011 Wisconsin Supreme Court election]] had [[Democratic Party (U.S.)|Democratic]] challenger [[JoAnne Kloppenburg]] defeating incumbent justice [[David Prosser Jr.|David Prosser]] by a 204-vote margin. On the Thursday after the election, Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus reported, among other smaller errors, a failure to report votes in the Waukesha city of [[Brookfield, Wisconsin|Brookfield]]. The newly reported votes gave Prosser the lead, and he retained his seat.<ref name="2011Elec">{{cite news |last1=Stein |first1=Jason |last2=Walker |first2=Laurel |last3=Glauber |first3=Bill |date=April 7, 2011 |title=Corrected Brookfield tally puts Prosser ahead after 7,500-vote gain |work=Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel |url=http://archive.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/119410124.html |access-date=July 14, 2017}}</ref> Media reports stemming from this incident referred to the county as "crucial Waukesha County," and the phrase has continued to be widely used in U.S. political media as an in-joke, despite the county being a [[Republican Party (U.S.)|Republican]] stronghold.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gallitz |first1=Sean |date=April 5, 2016 |title=The Wisconsin county that could stop Donald Trump |work=CBS News |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-wisconsin-county-that-could-stop-trump/ |access-date=July 14, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Kondik |first1=Kyle |date=May 5, 2014 |title=10 Maps That Explain the 2014 Midterms |work=POLITICO |url=http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/10-maps-that-explain-the-2014-midterms-106347 |access-date=July 14, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Gehrke |first1=Joel |date=February 20, 2015 |title=Ron Johnson, Ready Already for 2016 |work=National Review |url=http://www.nationalreview.com/article/414118/ron-johnson-ready-already-2016-joel-gehrke |access-date=July 14, 2017}}</ref>