Election Turnout Each Year

And at least 13 states have already surpassed 90.

Election turnout each year. Voter turnout in every presidential election year since 1980 share of the citizen voting age population who voted for the highest office in each election edited by. Political science and politics vol 23 no. Each of these suffrage laws expanded the body of eligible voters and because women were less likely to vote than men each of these expansions created a decline in voter turnout rates culminating with the extremely low turnouts in the 1920 and 1924 elections after the passage of the nineteenth amendment.

Nationally voters have already cast 73 3 percent of total votes counted in the 2016 general election according to the u s. These models estimate county level turnout rates as a proportion of each county s citizen voting age population in the 2004 2008 2012 and 2016 elections based on each county s demographic. Ansolabehere stephen and david m.

Burnham walter dean the turnout problem elections. Alex tribou mira rojanasakul. The chart below shows the percentage of registered voters who actually voted at each general election from 1945 2017 excluding votes deliberately or accidentally spoiled.

Voter turnout rates in the united states 2002 2018 expressed as a percentage of eligible voters year total ballots cast total ballots cast for highest office 2018. Most modern presidential elections in the united states have a voter turnout rate of between 50 and 60 percent. As of november 16 2020 66 7 percent of the eligible voting population in the united states voted in the 2020 presidential election.

As of this date voter turnout was highest in minnesota at. Voter turnout data is also available for individual constituencies at the 2015 2010 2005 2001 1997 general elections and for westminster by elections the. Bennett stephen earl the uses and abuses of registration and turnout data ps.