UPDATED: Waukesha Voter Turnout Reached 89%
Mitt Romney lead in Waukesha with 57.8 percent of the vote.
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Updated at 8 p.m. Wednesday with voter turnout numbers.
Mitt Romney carried Barack Obama in the City of Waukesha, taking 57.8 percent of the vote, despite Obama winning Wisconsin and a second term in office.
Romney had 21,348 votes in Waukesha to Obama’s 15,113 – 40.9 percent of the total 36,956 votes cast in Tuesday’s presidential election. Obama lost votes in Waukesha compared to 2008 when he obtained 45.5 percent of the vote with 16,302 votes.
About 89 percent of registered voters participated in Tuesday's election. The City of Waukesha had 26 percent of voters vote by absentee and 63 percent of voters voted at the polls.
Results, which came in after 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, are unofficial until canvassing.
At St. Mary’s, an estimated 200 new voters registered at the polls, and new voters were signing up at most of the polling locations through the city.
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The biggest Election Day concern reported to Patch was at St. Mary’s. Officials at Carroll University were concerned that some students may not be allowed to vote because one of the polling places for the university was only accepting housing lists as proof of residency. And many names on those lists have out-of-town addresses.
The university asked poll workers to allow students to vote if they show an ID and a tuition form. While the university had concerns, no problems were reported to Patch.
LAST UPDATE: 6:30 a.m. Thursday
| Race | Pct. reporting | Democratic Candidates | Results | Republican Candidates | Results |
| President |
100 |
Obama-Biden |
1,613,950 |
Romney-Ryan | 1,408,745 |
| U.S. Senate | 100 | Tammy Baldwin | 1,544,274 |
Tommy Thompson | 1,377,253 |
| 28th State Senate District | 100 | Jim Ward | 34,990 | Mary Lazich | 60,621 |
| 83rd State Assembly District | 100 | Jim Brownlow | 9,956 | Dave Craig | 23,004 |
| 97th State Assembly District | 100 | Marga Krumins | 9,888 |
Bill Kramer | 18,013 |
| 98th State Assembly District |
100 | Eric Prudent | 9,338 | Paul Farrow | 22,358 |
| 5th Congressional District |
100 |
Dave Heaster |
117,972 | Jim Sensenbrenner | 249,267 |
| Race | Pct. reporting | Candidate | Results | Candidate | Results |
| 33rd State Senate - Primary | 100 | Chris Kapenga | 28,837 | Paul Farrow | 31,843 |
Source: FOX6 News; Waukesha County Clerk's Office
Jaime Lannister
7:35 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012
I guess that makes Romney the president of Waukesha then... With any luck his first executive order will be to relocate the Mayors office to the city dump or something.
TOM
8:17 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012
NO IT JUST MEANS THAT THE PARASITES THAT VOTED IN THE OTHER GUY ARE LEECHES FROM OTHER COUNTIES
Keith Best
5:46 am on Thursday, November 8, 2012
The headlines should be screaming "Millions of Americans duped again".
Axelrod and the Chicago gang ran one of the sleaziest campaigns ever defining Romney as something he was not. What is the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Sadly, we will get more of the same from a president who was in over his head from day one. The Obamabots swallowed their lies, hook, line and sinker.
KMM
7:33 am on Thursday, November 8, 2012
Only 59% of Waukesha voted for Romney and 89% voted? Not very Red anymore. No matter what the ads had to say I know Republicans that never would have stepped out of party line...so there must have been something good happening that made this country vote him back electorally and popular. Maybe this is a lesson on working together for a change. The American people saw what the Republicans only plan was for this president's first term....to make him a one term....now they have to actually get some work done or they themselves will be looking for a job at the mid terms.