Election Turnout By State

V oter turnout has been a key strategy for democrats this election season.

Election turnout by state. The lowest voter turnout rate for a presidential race was in 1792 when electors from 15 states voted unanimously to re elect george washington for a. Older states with property restrictions dropped them namely all but rhode island virginia and north carolina by the mid 1820s. History of voter turnout early 19th century.

The previous high was 1 589 951 set in 2012. Universal white male suffrage. Turnout increased in every state and in 98 percent of the nation s counties.

Selected voter turnout rates by demographic groups from the census bureau s current population survey corrected for vote over report and non response bias. Leading into some elections near real time early voting statistics mail ballots or in person are collected for states or localities where available. 1 001 573 iowans cast absentee ballots another state record.

That accounted for 58 9 of all ballots. The 2020 presidential election set a participation record with more than 157 million people casting their ballots. Maine and colorado were also at the top of the list for highest voter turnout with 70 70 and 70 voting in the presidential election respectively.

The percentage of registered voters that participated was 75 77 one of the highest turnout rates in the country. Presidential primaries by state 2020 voter turnout in us presidential elections by ethnicity 1964 2016. For the presidential race the strategy worked.

Elections project a nonpartisan website run by university of florida professor michael mcdonald its. Battleground states wisconsin michigan florida and north carolina each have seen turnout as a share of the citizen voting age population more than 5 percentage points higher than in 2016 based. The state with the next highest voter turnout was new hampshire where over 71 of the eligible population showed up at the polls.