Charles Barman (Wisconsin)

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Charles Barman

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August 13, 2024

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Charles Barman (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Wisconsin. He lost in the Republican primary on August 13, 2024.

Biography

Charles Barman previously lived in Indiana and now lives in Sharon, Wisconsin. His career experience includes working as a construction superintendent and as the owner and operator of Swingbelly farm.

Elections

2024

See also: United States Senate election in Wisconsin, 2024

General election

General election for U.S. Senate Wisconsin

Incumbent Tammy Baldwin defeated Eric Hovde, Phillip Anderson, Thomas Leager, and John Schiess in the general election for U.S. Senate Wisconsin on November 5, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Tammy Baldwin (D)	49.3	1,672,777
		Eric Hovde (R)	48.5	1,643,996
		Phillip Anderson (Disrupt The Corruption Party)	1.2	42,315
		Thomas Leager (America First Party)	0.8	28,751
		John Schiess (Independent) (Write-in)	0.0	26
		Other/Write-in votes	0.1	2,922

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 3,390,787
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Joshua Harrington (No Party Affiliation)
• Scott Aubart (American Independent Party)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Wisconsin

Incumbent Tammy Baldwin advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Wisconsin on August 13, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Tammy Baldwin	99.8	639,049
		Other/Write-in votes	0.2	1,198

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 640,247
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. Senate Wisconsin

Eric Hovde defeated Charles Barman and Rejani Raveendran in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Wisconsin on August 13, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Eric Hovde	86.2	477,197
		Charles Barman	7.4	40,990
		Rejani Raveendran	6.3	34,612
		Other/Write-in votes	0.1	748

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 553,547
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Dan Helm (R)
• Matthew Harvey (R)
• Stacey Klein (R)
• Patrick Schaefer-Wicke (R)
• Kyle Corrigan (R)
• Douglas Alexander (R)

Endorsements

Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Barman in this election.

2022

See also: Wisconsin's 1st Congressional District election, 2022

General election

General election for U.S. House Wisconsin District 1

Incumbent Bryan Steil defeated Ann Roe and Charles Barman in the general election for U.S. House Wisconsin District 1 on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Bryan Steil (R)	54.0	162,610
		Ann Roe (D)	45.1	135,825
		Charles Barman (The Going Away Party)	0.7	2,247
		Other/Write-in votes	0.1	185

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 300,867
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Wisconsin District 1

Ann Roe advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Wisconsin District 1 on August 9, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Ann Roe	99.8	48,148
		Other/Write-in votes	0.2	112

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 48,260
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Albert Namath (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Wisconsin District 1

Incumbent Bryan Steil advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Wisconsin District 1 on August 9, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Bryan Steil	99.2	73,191
		Other/Write-in votes	0.8	571

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 73,762
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2020

See also: Wisconsin's 1st Congressional District election, 2020

Wisconsin's 1st Congressional District election, 2020 (August 11 Democratic primary)

Wisconsin's 1st Congressional District election, 2020 (August 11 Republican primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House Wisconsin District 1

Incumbent Bryan Steil defeated Roger Polack in the general election for U.S. House Wisconsin District 1 on November 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Bryan Steil (R)	59.3	238,271
		Roger Polack (D)	40.6	163,170
		Other/Write-in votes	0.1	313

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 401,754
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Wisconsin District 1

Roger Polack defeated Josh Pade in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Wisconsin District 1 on August 11, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Roger Polack	58.1	28,698
		Josh Pade	41.7	20,608
		Other/Write-in votes	0.2	109

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 49,415 (100.00% precincts reporting)
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Angela Cunningham (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Wisconsin District 1

Incumbent Bryan Steil advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Wisconsin District 1 on August 11, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Bryan Steil	99.7	40,273
		Other/Write-in votes	0.3	131

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 40,404
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• John Baker (R)
• Charles Barman (R)
• Jeremy Ryan (R)

2018

See also: United States Senate election in Wisconsin, 2018

General election

General election for U.S. Senate Wisconsin

Incumbent Tammy Baldwin defeated Leah Vukmir in the general election for U.S. Senate Wisconsin on November 6, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Tammy Baldwin (D)	55.4	1,472,914
		Leah Vukmir (R)	44.6	1,184,885
		Other/Write-in votes	0.0	42

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 2,657,841
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Wisconsin

Incumbent Tammy Baldwin advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Wisconsin on August 14, 2018.

		Candidate
✔		Tammy Baldwin

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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. Senate Wisconsin

Leah Vukmir defeated Kevin Nicholson, George Lucia, Griffin Jones, and Charles Barman in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Wisconsin on August 14, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Leah Vukmir	48.9	217,230
		Kevin Nicholson	43.1	191,276
		George Lucia	4.2	18,786
		Griffin Jones	2.0	8,699
		Charles Barman	1.8	7,959

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 443,950
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• John Schiess (R)

Independent primary election

No Independent candidates ran in the primary.

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Joseph Schnering (Independent)

Campaign themes

2024

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Charles Barman did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.

Campaign website

Barman’s campaign website stated the following:

“	Let's work together Save our Children Protect them and teach them - God, family, country, truth and honor. They are our future. Save our Farmers Food is rather important. Farmers provide for the greater good and should be treated with the respect they deserve. Let's free them from taxes altogether. Let's assist them financially and educationally with increased resources and support. Save our Heros Our 1st responders are our real heros. They risk their lives daily to protect you and me from a crap-load of bad stuff. Fires, floods, invasions, robbers, and hoodlums - they are there to serve and protect under our Constitution. They earn our respect every day.	”
—Charles Barman’s campaign website (2024)

2022

Charles Barman did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.

Campaign website

Barman's campaign website stated the following:

“	Save our Children Protect them and teach them - God, family, country, truth and honor. They are our future. Save our Farmers Food is rather important. Farmers provide for the greater good and should be treated with the respect they deserve. Let's free them from taxes altogether. Let's assist them financially and educationally with increased resources and support. Save our Heros Our 1st responders are our real heros. They risk their lives daily to protect you and me from a crap-load of bad stuff. Fires, floods, invasions, robbers, and hoodlums - they are there to serve and protect under our Constitution. They earn our respect every day.	”
—Charles Barman's campaign website (2022)

2020

Charles Barman did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.

Campaign finance summary

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Charles Barman campaign contribution history

Year	Office	Status	Contributions	Expenditures
2024*	U.S. Senate Wisconsin	Lost primary	$0	N/A**
2018	U.S. Senate Wisconsin	Lost primary	$0	N/A**
Grand total			$0	N/A**
Sources: OpenSecrets,  Federal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

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Footnotes

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Wisconsin's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Tammy Baldwin (D)

Ronald Johnson (R)

Representatives

District 1

Bryan Steil (R)

District 2

Mark Pocan (D)

District 3

Derrick Van Orden (R)

District 4

Gwen Moore (D)

District 5

Scott Fitzgerald (R)

District 6

Glenn Grothman (R)

District 7

Tom Tiffany (R)

District 8

Tony Wied (R)

Republican Party (7)

Democratic Party (3)