Liberal candidate Susan Crawford defeated conservative Brad Schimel by 10 points in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election Tuesday, retaining the court’s 4–3 liberal majority. Every one of Wisconsin’s 72 counties shifted left compared to the 2023 race.
Crawford received nearly 280,000 more votes than liberal Judge Janet Protasiewicz did two years earlier. Overall turnout surged 28%, with over 2.36 million votes cast — a record for an off-year judicial race.
Democratic turnout was especially strong in Dane and Milwaukee counties, where Crawford received 90% of Madison’s vote. Even conservative strongholds like Waukesha and Ozaukee counties saw a leftward shift. Crawford flipped multiple counties won by Trump in 2024, including Brown, Kenosha, Racine, and Winnebago.
Despite support from Elon Musk and former President Trump — including over $20 million from Musk-backed groups — Schimel underperformed expectations. He secured 62% of Trump’s 2024 voters, but Crawford captured 78% of Kamala Harris’s supporters.
The $90 million race was the most expensive judicial election in U.S. history, and Democrats are calling it a rejection of the Trump-Musk agenda.
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