Milwaukee win gives Danielle Shelton huge boost in Milwaukee County Circuit Court Branch 40 win

Shelton

By Gretchen Schuldt

​Circuit Judge-elect Danielle Shelton's big win in Milwaukee on Tuesday gave her a big boost in her decisive victory over incumbent Andrew Jones in the race for the Branch 40 bench, Milwaukee County election records show.

Shelton's margin of victory in the city was 20 votes larger than it was countywide.

Shelton, an assistant state public defender, won the race countywide by 18,243 votes, 71,647 to 53,404. In Milwaukee, she beat Jones by 18,263 votes, 38,414 to 20,141.

Shelton won in 10 of the county's 18 suburbs. Her average suburban victory, however, was 442 votes, while her average suburban loss was 556 votes. Overall, she lost in the suburbs  by 20 votes.

Shelton's largest suburban win was in Shorewood, where she won by 1,608 votes and took 70 percent of the vote, the largest vote share either candidate won in the county.  Shelton won 66 percent of the vote in Milwaukee, her second biggest vote share.

Her largest loss was in Franklin, where Jones captured 61 percent of the ballots and won by 1,495 votes. 

The Branch 40 race did not attract the voter participation that the Supreme Court race between Lisa Neubauer and Brian Hagedorn did. There were 25,053, or 17%, fewer total votes cast for Shelton and Jones than there were for Hagedorn and Neubauer, who also faced off Tuesday. 

There were 125,051 votes for the two Branch 40 candidates and 150,104 for the Supreme Court contenders.

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