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WIZMnews.com Sheer numbers from La Crosse County helped Democrats win the four area Wisconsin state Legislature races, but outside the county, the GOP won by more. Democrats won by 55.7 percent in La Crosse County. Republicans won by 59.7% outside it. All four Democratic candidates won their races on Tuesday, including state Assembly Reps. Jill…

WIZMnews.com Democrat Tara Johnson has unseated Republican incumbent Loren Oldenburg in Wisconsin’s 96th Assembly District. Johnson won with 51% of the 32,490 votes cast for the two candidates. Johnson won 16,578 to 15,912. “Our campaign has been about listening, bringing people together and advocating for solutions to the challenges people of this beautiful new district…

WIZMnews.com At 4:30 a.m. Wednesday, Democratic US Sen. Tammy Baldwin is calling game. With counts in Milwaukee County going late into the night and early into the morning, Baldwin votes kept coming in, making up ground on Republican Eric Hovde. With 98.2% reported, Baldwin called the race with a 26,181 vote lead — having 49.3%…

WIZMnews.com Voters passed the School District of La Crosse $53.5 million referendum Tuesday. The plan to build a new elementary school and update another passed with 60.9% of the 34,240 votes. La Crosse Schools superintendent, Dr. Aaron Engel, will be on WIZM’s La Crosse Talk in the 6 a.m. hour on Wednesday. Listen on the…

WIZMnews.com WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States on Wednesday, an extraordinary comeback for a former president who refused to accept defeat four years ago, sparked a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, was convicted of felony charges and survived two assassination attempts. With a win in Wisconsin,…

WIZMnews.com Republican Rep. Brad Finstad won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing all of southern Minnesota on Tuesday. Finstad defeated Democrat Rachel Bohman with about 60% of the vote. Finstad is a New Ulm native, who was running for his second full term in Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District. Bohman is a Rochester native, who…

WIZMnews.com MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democrats came out of Tuesday’s elections with substantial gains in the Wisconsin Legislature under new district boundaries, setting them up for a run for a majority in two years. Democrats had high hopes that the maps would enable them to get control of the state Assembly for the first time…

WIZMnews.com Democrat Steve Doyle has defended his District 94 Assembly seat. Doyle narrowly beat Republican Ryan Huebsch by about 200 votes — 18,435 to 18,218. Doyle won La Crosse County with 51.5% of the vote — 16,963 to 15,958. In Trempealeau County, Huebsch had 788 more votes — Doyle 1,472 to Huebsch 2,260. Because the…

WIZMnews.com Wisconsin voters approved a Republican-written constitutional amendment in Tuesday’s elections that changed one word regarding citizens voting. The Wisconsin Constitution states that every U.S. citizen, who is at least 18, can vote. The amendment revises that language to read that only U.S. citizens can vote in federal, state and local elections held in Wisconsin.…

WIZMnews.com A Venezuelan man pleads not guilty to charges of sexual assault and child abuse in a Crawford County court case. Alejandro Coronel Zarate appeared in a Prairie du Chien courtroom on Monday. Six criminal counts were filed against him in September, for allegedly attacking a woman and her daughter. Coronel Zarate has been accused…