Driven by a highly partisan race for the technically nonpartisan office of state Supreme Court that drew national attention as a referendum on Donald Trump's first months in office and set an all-time judicial race spending record, both the city and the county saw more than 50% of their voting-age populations cast ballots.

By contrast, Republicans and conservatives have only reached 50% of the Wisconsin vote twice since 2018 in 12 elections for president, Senate, governor and state Supreme Court. Conservative court winner Brian Hagedorn got 50.2% in 2019 and Republican Sen. Ron Johnson got 50.4% in 2022.

President Trump won Wisconsin in 2024, carrying it by a margin of 0.86%. More than $90 million has been pumped into Tuesday's state judicial race.

President Donald Trump’s preferred candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court and his Democratic-backed challenger are making a final blitz across the state.

Wisconsin voters head to the polls Tuesday in an election that will determine the state Supreme Court's partisan control, who'll lead the state's K-12 public schools and whether the voter ID law will become part of the state constitution.