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Today is Recall Day in Wisconsin. Voters in six state Senate districts across the Badger State will go to the polls in one of the most anticipated, contentious, and cash-drenched elections in decades. But before a single vote was cast, Wisconsin had already etched its name into electoral history by playing host to an unprecedented slate of recall elections in a single summer.

Joshua Spivak, who writes the “Recall Elections Blog,” recently looked back on recall history in America to show how singular Wisconsin’s recall summer is. Here are six key statistics from Spivak’s analysis; consider them food for thought on the big day here in Wisconsin.

20 : The number of state legislative recalls since 1908

: The number of state legislative recalls since 1908 3: Maximum recall elections in one legislative session, in California in 1995.

Maximum recall elections in one legislative session, in California in 1995. 3 : Number of recall elections that flipped party control of a legislative chamber (Michigan in 1983, California in 1995, Wisconsin in 1996).

: Number of recall elections that flipped party control of a legislative chamber (Michigan in 1983, California in 1995, Wisconsin in 1996). 62 percent : Success rate in state legislative recalls since 1908.

: Success rate in state legislative recalls since 1908. 60 percent : The typical vote-getting by recall election winners, as recalls tend to be blowouts.

: The typical vote-getting by recall election winners, as recalls tend to be blowouts. 2: Number of governors to be recalled (North Dakota’s Lynn Frazier in 1921, California’s Gray Davis in 2003).

Spivak also reads the tea leaves for what happens after the summer recalls, and lays out the hurdles in recalling Gov. Scott Walker: