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Wisconsin early vote 2026

State file of Oct 23 · Wisconsin Elections Commission, daily absentee ballot report ↗ · newest count via civicAPI ↗

On the ballot in Wisconsin: Governor forecast →

No party registration Wisconsin does not register voters by party, so its count is ballots alone. No party split is shown or estimated.

Newest count from civicAPI, Oct 24 Wisconsin's own file runs through Oct 22. civicAPI, which compiles counts from state and county election offices, had a newer one, shown as the last day; the state's own file takes over again once it catches up.

Ballots returned525,954through Oct 24 · +148,896 since Oct 22
Days to Election Day10as of Oct 24

Ballots, day by day

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The line adds up all ballots, day by day. Solid is 2026; dashed is the year picked, lined up on the same point. Wisconsin does not register voters by party, so there are no party lines. Hover, tap or use the arrow keys to read a day.
0250K500K750K1.0MSep 17Sep 29Oct 6Oct 13Oct 26In-person voting opens526K
10 days before Election Day · Oct 2420262024ChangeAll525,954no count

2024 survives only in copies of the state's page saved on some days (the dots); dotted where none was saved.

Ballots added each day, last 7 days

205K this year against 390K on the same days of 2024 · −47%

  1. 1.2K1.1KOct 18
  2. 18K34KOct 19
  3. 67K115KOct 20
  4. 59K117KOct 21
  5. 60K122KOct 22

Where the ballots are

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Each bar is a place’s ballots against the largest place’s, split by party registration: Democrats, unaffiliated, Republicans. The figure at the end is the D–R gap. All ballots in this year’s file.

Last column: this year's ballots as a share of the county's whole 2022 early vote.

  1. Milwaukee County57,29346%
  2. Dane County50,97445%
  3. Waukesha County39,53050%
  4. Brown County18,59051%
  5. Racine County13,13853%
  6. Outagamie County12,73051%
  7. Washington County12,48960%
  8. Winnebago County11,36553%
  9. Kenosha County11,36453%
  10. Rock County9,84056%

Mail or in person

Mail 377,058 71.7%In person 148,896 28.3%

In-person early voting: Oct 20 to Nov 1. Any Wisconsin voter may vote absentee; in person from 14 days before the election to the Sunday before (Wis. Stat. 6.86(1)(b)).

Known

  • 525,954 ballots returnedthrough Oct 24
  • Mail or in person
  • On 37 daysthe state's page as read each day since Sep 17; the newest, Oct 24, from civicAPI
  • By 72 counties

Not known

  • How anyone votedballots stay sealed until they are counted
  • Election Day turnout
  • Mail ballots still outrequested or sent and not yet returned; not read from the state's file yet
  • Party registration of the votersWisconsin does not register voters by party
  • Ballots reported after Oct 25
  • How this point compares with 2022 or 2024no count survives for that day
How Wisconsin is counted and compared
  • 2022 is read at the same number of days before the election. No statewide first day of voting is on record for 2022 or this year, so the years are read at the same number of days before the election.
  • 2024 is read at the same number of days before the election. No statewide first day of voting is on record for 2024 or this year, so the years are read at the same number of days before the election.
  • Counts absentee ballots returned, by mail, drop box or in person, from the Wisconsin Elections Commission's daily absentee report (BallotsReturned; in person is its InPersonAbsentee part).
  • Wisconsin does not register voters by party, so no party split exists.
  • Each report is the system's state at 7:30 a.m., dated here by the day before.
  • The Commission notes that clerks' entries can lag, so recent returns can be under-reported.
  • In-person absentee voting runs from 14 days before the election to the Sunday before (Wis. Stat. 6.86(1)(b)): October 20 to November 1, 2026.
  • 2024: Counts absentee ballots returned, by mail, drop box or in person, from the Wisconsin Elections Commission's daily absentee report (BallotsReturned; in person is its InPersonAbsentee part).
  • 2024: The Commission's daily county files as still posted; days without one are gaps.
  • 2024: Each report is the system's state at 7:30 a.m., dated here by the day before.
  • 2024: 0 days are read from Internet Archive copies of files no longer posted; 25 days in the season have no file at all.
  • 2022: Counts absentee ballots returned, by mail, drop box or in person, from the Wisconsin Elections Commission's daily absentee report (BallotsReturned; in person is its InPersonAbsentee part).
  • 2022: Read from the Internet Archive's copies of the Commission's weekday report pages.
  • 2022: Each report is the system's state at 7:30 a.m., dated here by the day before.

Last checked Counts change only when a state has posted a new file.

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