2008 Election Young Voter Turnout

2008 election turnout hit 40 year high december 15 2008 4 33 pm ap enthusiasm among blacks and democrats for barack obama s candidacy pushed voter turnout in this year s elections to the.

2008 election young voter turnout. 45 identified as democrats compared with smaller percentages who identified as republican 26 or independent 29. Only 59 of youth voters who had registration capabilities on the same day of the election took advantage of this policy. Youth voter turnout in the 2008 election was only 2 points higher than in the 2004 election.

The party s advantage among young voters widens. Voter turnout by sex and age for the 2008 us presidential election. The voting eligible population vep represents an estimate of persons eligible to vote regardless of voter registration status in an election and is constructed by modifying the voting age population vap by components reported in the right most columns scroll.

Educational attainment is perhaps the best predictor of voter turnout and in the 2008 election those holding advanced degrees were three times more likely to vote than those with less than high school education. Since 1972 young women have been more likely to vote than young men. Early vote leading into some elections near real time early voting statistics mail ballots or in person are collected for states or localities where available.

3 31 2012 the preferred turnout rates are those calculated with the voting eligible population as the denominator. The percentage of young americans who plan to vote far exceeds the 47 who said they definitely planned to vote ahead of the 2016 election 40 who planned to vote in 2018 and 48 who planned to. By age voters 18 to 24 were the only group to show a statistically significant increase in turnout with.

Voters ages 18 29 were by far the most democratic age cohort in the election. The gap in 2008 was 8 points. Selected voter turnout rates by demographic groups from the census bureau s current population survey corrected for vote over report and non response bias.

Between 22 and 24 million young americans ages 18 29 voted resulting in an estimated youth voter turnout the percentage of eligible voters who actually cast a vote of between 49 3 and 54 5 percent according to an exit poll analysis released nov. Voter preferences candidate support election 2008 political party affiliation generations and age teens and youth voter demographics millennials related gen dems.