Sauk County, Wisconsin

2024 results by precinct

50 precincts · 37,584 votes cast

Trump · R+2

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−1.7%	18,172	18,798	37,584
2020	D	+1.7%	18,108	17,493	36,203
2016	R	−0.3%	14,690	14,799	31,357
2012	D	+18.5%	18,736	12,838	31,927
2008	D	+21.9%	18,167	11,562	30,176
2004	D	+4.3%	15,708	14,415	30,417
2000	D	+5.6%	13,035	11,586	25,653
1996	D	+12.0%	9,889	7,448	20,285
1992	D	+1.0%	9,128	8,886	23,422
1988	R	−10.2%	8,324	10,225	18,687
1984	R	−21.4%	7,158	11,069	18,313
1980	R	−7.6%	8,456	9,992	20,195
1976	R	−1.9%	9,204	9,577	19,192
1972	R	−18.9%	6,980	10,285	17,493
1968	R	−13.7%	6,406	8,608	16,048
1964	D	+18.8%	9,288	6,345	15,656
1960	R	−23.5%	6,441	10,403	16,867
1956	R	−33.4%	5,292	10,644	16,016
1952	R	−40.1%	5,267	12,347	17,666
1948	R	−9.8%	5,831	7,140	13,307
1944	R	−26.1%	5,690	9,751	15,546
1940	R	−20.7%	6,106	9,363	15,707
1936	D	+18.4%	8,355	5,626	14,812
1932	D	+20.0%	7,638	5,063	12,867
1928	R	−18.4%	5,151	7,496	12,729
1924	R	−30.6%	555	3,935	11,052
1920	R	−74.9%	946	8,074	9,522
1916	R	−24.0%	2,257	3,779	6,334
1912	D	+5.1%	2,464	2,171	5,727
1908	R	−19.0%	2,571	3,854	6,754
1904	R	−40.6%	1,914	4,805	7,115
1900	R	−25.9%	2,491	4,329	7,110
1896	R	−26.5%	2,611	4,623	7,585
1892	R	−2.0%	3,139	3,277	6,862
1888	—	No data	—	—	—
1884	—	No data	—	—	—
1880	—	No data	—	—	—
1876	—	No data	—	—	—

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.

American

100.0%

Italian

0.7%

Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.

Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.

Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.

American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 41.6 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.9%

85+

1.7%

2.6%

75–84

2.9%

5.8%

65–74

6.1%

7.2%

55–64

7.0%

5.9%

45–54

5.9%

6.8%

35–44

6.3%

6.0%

25–34

5.7%

3.7%

18–24

3.4%

8.6%

5–17

8.2%

2.9%

2.7%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$79,541

Sauk County ranks in the top 25% of US counties.

Sauk County$79,541

Wisconsin$77,485

United States$80,734

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

8.1%

Children face moderate poverty.

Children under 1818.0%

Working age (18–64)100.0%

Seniors (65+)18.0%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Language at home

Population aged 5 and older

0.0%

speak English only

Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.

Religious adherents

Adherents per capita by tradition

Catholic & Orthodox

18.5%

Mainline Protestant

16.6%

Other Christian

8.5%

Methodist

2.8%

Baptist

1.6%

Pentecostal & Holiness

0.9%

Non-Christian

0.1%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 51.0% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Home to Wisconsin Dells and the Baraboo Hills, Sauk County blends a resort economy with small-city manufacturing, producing a voter mix that has swung between parties in every cycle since 2008 — landing at R+1.7 in 2024.

The county's recent history is a story of close margins. The Democratic margin reached twenty-two points in 2008; the Republican margin reached seventy-five points in 1920. Most other elections have been decided by single-digit points.

Sauk County's demographics — a population of 66,009, a 87% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $79,541 — situate the county close to national averages on several dimensions. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Green County and Clinton County.

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Sauk County delivered a near-tie in 2024.