2020 Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary

The 2020 Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary took place on Tuesday, April 7, 2020, in the midst of a global pandemic, along with the Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice election. It is one of the Democratic Party presidential primaries for the 2020 presidential election. The Wisconsin primary is an open primary, with the state awarding 97 delegates, of which 84 are pledged delegates allocated on the basis of the results of the primary. Although in-person voting took place on April 7, full results were not released until April 13, in accordance with a district court ruling.[1]

Main article: 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries
2020 Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary
April 7, 2020
97 Democratic National Convention delegates (84 pledged, 13 unpledged)
The number of pledged delegates won is determined by the popular vote
 
Candidate Joe Biden Bernie Sanders
Home state Delaware Vermont
Delegate count 56 28
Popular vote 581,463 293,441
Percentage 62.86% 31.72%
Election results by county
  Joe Biden
Elections in Wisconsin

As of the primary on April 7, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders were the only candidates left in the race. However, the next morning, before any of Wisconsin's results were released, Sanders dropped out of the race, leaving Biden as the party's presumed presidential nominee.[2]

Procedure

Wisconsin was the sole state that voted on April 7, 2020, in the Democratic primaries.[3]

Voting took place throughout the state from 7:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. In the open primary, candidates must meet a threshold of 15% at the congressional district or statewide level in order to be considered viable. The 84 pledged delegates to the 2020 Democratic National Convention will be allocated proportionally on the basis of the results of the primary. Of the 77 pledged delegates, between 5 and 11 are allocated to each of the state's 8 congressional districts and another 10 are allocated to party leaders and elected officials (PLEO delegates), in addition to 29 at-large pledged delegates. These delegate totals do not account for pledged delegate bonuses or penalties from timing or clustering.[4]

On Sunday, April 26, 2020, county caucuses will select delegates for congressional district caucuses which will take place on Sunday, May 17, 2020, which in turn designate national convention district-level delegates. The administrative committee meeting before the state convention will subsequently be on Friday, June 12, 2020, to vote on the 29 pledged at-large and 10 PLEO delegates to send to the Democratic National Convention. The 77 pledged delegates Wisconsin sends to the national convention will be joined by 13 unpledged PLEO delegates (eight members of the Democratic National Committee; four members of Congress, including one Senator and 3 U.S. Representatives; and the governor).[4]

COVID-19 pandemic
See also: Impact of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic on politics § Wisconsin, and COVID-19 pandemic in Wisconsin

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, several states delayed their scheduled primaries and extended the vote-by-mail period. Concerns were raised by health officials, poll workers, and voters that in-person voting at the height of the pandemic would be unsafe for vulnerable individuals.[5] Governor Tony Evers (D) signed an executive order for all-mail-in election, but the order was rejected by the Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature.[6]

On April 2, although U.S. District Judge William M. Conley refused to postpone the election, he extended the deadline for absentee voting to April 13 (ordering clerks not to release any election data before that date).[7][8] However, on April 6, the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Conley's decision, meaning that all absentee ballots must still be postmarked by "election day, Tuesday, April 7" even though it will still be acceptable for the ballots to be received by the clerks as late as April 13.[9][10] The Supreme Court of the United States, "did not alter the provision in Conley's amended order which prohibits the reporting of results until April 13".[11]

Governor Evers then called a special session of the legislature to postpone in-person voting, but the session ended within minutes without action, forcing the primary to go on as planned.[12]

Despite having previously expressed the view that he would violate the law by doing so,[13] on April 6, Evers issued an executive order which, if enforced, would have postponed the April 7 elections until the tentative date of June 9.[14][15] Republican leaders immediately announced that they would challenge the order in the Wisconsin Supreme Court.[14] The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that Evers did not have the authority to postpone the elections, thus meaning that Evers' executive order was nullified, and that the elections would be held as scheduled on April 7.[16]

This was appealed to a federal court who sided with the Governor, and that was appealed to the US Supreme Court, which on a 5–4 vote, upheld the State court's ruling.[17]

Voting was somewhat chaotic, with people waiting in the rain for hours in some cases in masks and social distancing.[18] However, by the time the election concluded, Milwaukee Election Commissioner Neil Albrecht stated that despite some of the problems, the in-person voting ran smoothly.[19]

Polling
Polling aggregation
Source of poll aggregation Date
updated		 Dates
polled		 Joe
Biden		 Bernie
Sanders		 Other/
Undecided[lower-alpha 1]
270 to Win April 5, 2020 March 6–29, 2020 55.3% 37.0% 7.7%
RealClear Politics April 5, 2020 March 6–29, 2020 55.3% 37.0% 7.7%
FiveThirtyEight April 5, 2020 until March 29, 2020 [lower-alpha 2] 51.6% 36.0% 12.4%
Average 54.1% 36.7% 9.2%
Tabulation of individual polls of the 2020 Wisconsin Democratic Primary
Poll source Date(s)
administered		 Sample
size[lower-alpha 3]		 Margin
of error		 Joe
Biden		 Michael
Bloomberg		 Cory
Booker		 Pete
Buttigieg		 Kamala
Harris		 Amy
Klobuchar		 Bernie
Sanders		 Elizabeth
Warren		 Andrew
Yang		 Other Un-
decided
Marquette University Law School Mar 24–29, 2020 394 (LV) ± 5.9% 62% – – – – – 34% – – – 4%[lower-alpha 4]
Public Policy Polling Mar 10–11, 2020 898(LV) – 55% – – – – – 39% – – 3%[lower-alpha 5] 3%
YouGov/Yahoo News Mar 6–8, 2020 –(RV)[lower-alpha 6] ± 6.4% 49% – – – – – 38% – – – –
Mar 1–5, 2020 Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Bloomberg, and Warren withdraw from the race
Marquette University Law School Feb 19–23, 2020 490 (LV) ± 5.1% 15% 17% – 13% – 11% 29% 9% – 2%[lower-alpha 7] 4%
YouGov/University of Wisconsin-Madison Feb 11–20, 2020 428 (LV) – 13% 13% – 12% – 9% 30% 12% – – 11%[lower-alpha 8]
Feb 11, 2020 New Hampshire primary; Yang withdraws from the race after close of polls
Baldwin Wallace University/Oakland University/Ohio Northern University Jan 8–20, 2020 464 (RV) – 21.8% 8.4% – 7.7% – 3% 28.4% 14.7% 2.2% 2.5%[lower-alpha 9] 10.9%
Jan 13, 2020 Booker withdraws from the race
Marquette University Law School Jan 8–12, 2020 358 (LV) ± 6.3% 23% 6% 1% 15% – 4% 19% 14% 6% 3%[lower-alpha 10] 9%
Fox News Jan 5–8, 2020 671 (LV) ± 3.5% 23% 7% 3% 9% – 4% 21% 13% 3% 6%[lower-alpha 11] 10%
Marquette University Law School Dec 3–8, 2019 358 (LV) ± 6.3% 23% 3% 4% 15% – 3% 19% 16% 3% 3%[lower-alpha 12] 11%
Dec 3, 2019 Harris withdraws from the race
Nov 24, 2019 Bloomberg announces his candidacy
Marquette University Law School Nov 13–17, 2019 801 (RV) – 30% – 3% 13% 2% 3% 17% 15% 2% 6%[lower-alpha 13] 10%
Siena Research/New York Times Oct 13–26, 2019 292 – 23% – 1% 5% 1% 0% 20% 25% 2% 2%[lower-alpha 14] 19%
Kaiser Family Foundation Sep 23 – Oct 15, 2019 274 (LV) – 17% – 2% 6% 3% 3% 10% 22% 2% 1%[lower-alpha 15] 35%
Fox News Sep 29 – Oct 2, 2019 663 (LV) ± 3.5% 28% – 2% 7% 5% 2% 17% 22% 2% 5%[lower-alpha 16] 9%
Marquette University Law School Aug 25–29, 2019 444 (RV) ± 5.3% 28% – 1% 6% 3% 1% 20% 17% 2% 5%[lower-alpha 17] 13%
Change Research Aug 9–11, 2019 935 (LV) ± 3.2% 20% – 1% 9% 5% 2% 24% 29% 2% 5%[lower-alpha 18] –
Change Research Jun 29 – Jul 4, 2019 1261 (LV) – 18% – 3% 15% 17% 1% 19% 19% 1% 6%[lower-alpha 19] –
Zogby Analytics May 23–29, 2019 238 (LV) ± 6.4% 28% – 2% 7% 7% 3% 13% 14% 0% 2%[lower-alpha 20] –
Apr 25, 2019 Biden announces his candidacy
Zogby Analytics Apr 15–18, 2019 485 (LV) ± 4.5% 24% – 4% 10% 7% 4% 20% 6% 1% 11%[lower-alpha 21] 14%
Apr 14, 2019 Buttigieg announces his candidacy
Emerson College Mar 15–17, 2019 324 (LV) ± 5.4% 24% – 2% 1% 5% 4% 39% 14% 1% 10%[lower-alpha 22] –

Results
2020 Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary[20][21]
Candidate Votes[22] % Delegates[23]
Joe Biden 581,463 62.86% 56
Bernie Sanders 293,441 31.72% 28
Elizabeth Warren (withdrawn) 14,060 1.52%
Michael Bloomberg (withdrawn) 8,846 0.96%
Amy Klobuchar (withdrawn) 6,079 0.66%
Tulsi Gabbard (withdrawn) 5,565 0.60%
Pete Buttigieg (withdrawn) 4,946 0.53%
Andrew Yang (withdrawn) 3,349 0.36%
Tom Steyer (withdrawn) 836 0.09%
John Delaney (withdrawn) 529 0.06%
Michael Bennet (withdrawn) 475 0.05%
Deval Patrick (withdrawn) 311 0.03%
Uncommitted 3,590 0.39%
Scattering 1,575 0.17%
Total 925,065 100% 84

100% precincts reporting[24]

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See also

Notes
  1. Calculated by taking the difference of 100% and all other candidates combined
  2. FiveThirtyEight aggregates polls with a trendline regression of polls rather than a strict average of recent polls.
  3. Key:
    A – all adults
    RV – registered voters
    LV – likely voters
    V – unclear
  4. Don't know with 2%; Refused to answer with 2%
  5. Gabbard with 3%
  6. Part of a 1,750 registered voter poll of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin
  7. Gabbard and Steyer with 1%; "Someone else" with 0%
  8. "Not sure/other" with 11%
  9. Gabbard with 0.8%; Patrick with 0.6%; Bennet and Delaney with 0.4%; Steyer with 0.3%
  10. Gabbard and Steyer with 1%; Patrick and Williamson with 0%; someone else with 1%; Bennet and Delaney not reported
  11. Gabbard and Steyer with 2%; Williamson with 1%; Bennet, Delaney, and Patrick with 0%; none of the above with 1%
  12. Gabbard with 1%; Bennet, Castro, Delaney, Patrick, Steyer and Williamson with 0%; someone else with 1%; would not vote with 1%
  13. Bullock, Steyer, Williamson, someone else, Would not vote, and Refused with 1%; Bennet, Castro, and Delaney with 0%
  14. Gabbard and O'Rourke with 1%; others with 0%
  15. O'Rourke with 1%; Steyer with 0%; Castro with no voters; other with 0%
  16. Bullock, Gabbard and O'Rourke with 1%; Bennet, Delaney, Ryan, Sestak, Steyer, Williamson and Other with <1%; Castro and Messam with 0%; None of the above with 1%
  17. "Someone else", Bullock, Gillibrand, O'Rourke, Steyer with 1%; Bennet, Gabbard, Delaney, Castro, Ryan and Williamson with 0%
  18. Gabbard with 2%; Inslee, O'Rourke, Steyer, and Williamson with 1%; Bennet, Bullock, Castro, Delaney, Gillibrand, Hickenlooper, Messam, and Sestak with 0%
  19. Gabbard and O'Rourke with 2%; Castro, Delaney, Gillibrand and Inslee with 1%; Bennet, Bullock, Gravel, Hickenlooper, Moulton, Ryan, Swalwell and Williamson with 0%; Messam and Sestak with no voters
  20. Castro, Gabbard, Gillibrand, and O'Rourke with 1%; Delaney, Hickenlooper, Inslee, and Yang with 0%
  21. O'Rourke with 5%; Hickenlooper with 2%; Castro, Gillibrand, and Yang with 1%; Delaney, Gabbard, and Inslee with 0%; others with 2%
  22. O'Rourke with 6%; Gillibrand with 1%; Castro, Gabbard, Hickenlooper, and Inslee with 0%; others with 3%

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  2. Sullivan, Sean; Janes, Chelsea (8 April 2020). "Bernie Sanders to end his presidential campaign". Washington Post. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
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  6. Coronavirus is disrupting the 2020 election. Here’s a list of all the primaries that have been postponed by Yelena Dzhanova, CNBC, 2 Apr 2020
  7. Todd Richmond (April 3, 2020). "Wisconsin barrels ahead with election despite virus fears". AP.
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  12. Glauber, Bill; Marley, Patrick. "In matter of seconds, Republicans stall Gov. Tony Evers' move to postpone Tuesday election". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
  13. Governor Evers Tweet April 1 2020
  14. CNN, Eric Bradner and Kate Sullivan (April 6, 2020). "Wisconsin governor orders delay of primary election until June". CNN. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
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  17. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/scotus-wisconsin-election/
  18. https://www.axios.com/wisconsin-results-coronavirus-supreme-court-0715ee50-a85b-41e8-a4ef-053290bc2692.html
  19. Milwaukee Election Chief: Despite Some Issues, In-Person Voting Went Smoothly
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