This Waukesha County Community Had the Highest Voter Turnout Last Presidential Election

WAUKESHA COUNTY -- Close races for president and U.S. Senate drew heavy voter turnouts during the last presidential election cycle in 2012, when nearly 70 percent of Wisconsin's 4.4 million eligible voters in Wisconsin went to the polls.

But when it came to voters in Waukesha County, residents in Elm Grove came out as the clear winners.

According to figures compiled by Patch.com, voters in Elm Grove, Lac La Belle, Nashotah, Delafield and Wales all went to the polls at a rate of nearly 90 percent of all eligible voters. A majority of Waukesha County communities' voter turnouts were above 70 percent.

Are we due for a repeat in the 2016 election?

2012 By the Numbers

1. ELM GROVE 97.40%
2. LAC LA BELLE 97.38%
3. NASHOTAH 95.32%
4. DELAFIELD 93.02%
5. WALES 91.15%
6. MERTON 89.64%
7. GENESEE 89.57%
8. BROOKFIELD 89.02%
9. MERTON 87.91%
10. PEWAUKEE 87.48%
11. LISBON 87.28%
12. OCONOMOWOC 86.45%
13. NORTH PRAIRIE 86.34%
14. MUKWONAGO 86.26%
15. SUMMIT 86.16%
16. MUSKEGO 85.78%
17. VERNON 85.74%
18. EAGLE 85.53%
19. OTTAWA 85.10%
20. BROOKFIELD 84.03%
21. WAUKESHA TOWN 83.53%
22. CHENEQUA 83.08%
23. NEW BERLIN 82.87%
24. MENOMONEE FALLS 82.53%
25. DELAFIELD 82.46%
26. EAGLE 82.00%
27. OCONOMOWOC LAKE 81.89%
28. SUSSEX 81.54%
29. BIG BEND 81.30%
30. OCONOMOWOC 81.01%
31. DOUSMAN 80.14%
32. LANNON 79.06%
33. HARTLAND 77.10%
34. MUKWONAGO 76.97%
35. PEWAUKEE 75.00%
36. BUTLER 72.30%
37. WAUKESHA 63.64%

2012's figures surpassed the 2008 presidential election turnout of 69.2 percent of eligible voters, and come in just behind turnouts of 72.9 percent in 2004 and 73 percent in 1960.

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