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Who's winning the 2025 spring election in Wisconsin? How to find results after polls close
Who's winning the 2025 spring election in Wisconsin? How to find results after polls close

Yahoo

time01-04-2025

  • Politics
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Who's winning the 2025 spring election in Wisconsin? How to find results after polls close

Wisconsin voters are casting their ballots Tuesday in a spring election which will decide the outcome of the state Supreme Court's partisan control. And while it may require some patience, you'll have to wait several hours after polls close at 8 p.m. to know the unofficial outcome of the race. This week, Milwaukee Election Commission Executive Director Paulina Gutiérrez said she wasn't sure what time the city would be done counting, but it would be after midnight. Milwaukee's absentee ballots are usually reported late at night, or even in the early morning hours after Election Day, because of the amount of absentee ballots cast by voters in the city. Last year, the Republican-controlled state Senate let a bipartisan bill die that would have made it possible for clerks to start counting absentee ballots earlier. Here's how election results are posted in Wisconsin, plus where to find live election results on after polls close. Wisconsin doesn't have a statewide system for reporting unofficial results on Election night, according to Instead, results are transmitted from municipal clerks to Wisconsin's county clerks, who are required by law to post unofficial results to their websites. You can find a list of Wisconsin county election websites here. The results reported after polls close are technically unofficial. Official results are always certified in a process after Election Day. RELATED You can track your absentee ballot in Wisconsin. Here's how Live results will be posted to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's website after polls close at 8 p.m. You can find live results here. Alison Dirr contributed to this report. This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: When will Wisconsin election results be posted? Schimel vs. Crawford

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