The “didn’t vote” should be separated from “ineligible to vote” (age, citizenship, felony conviction). Voter turnout is typically measured as a percentage of eligible voters.
It’s Interesting to see the relative decrees in people not voting since the 1990s.
So Biden is the only candidate to ever beat didn’t vote?
Points of interest, maybe:
1. Biden in 2020 was the only candidate to receive more votes than the number who abstained. 2. More votes were cast for other candidates than the gap between the candidates for the main 2 parties 7 times. Those with the most votes in those elections were: 1. 1948, Truman 2. 1960, Kennedy 3. 1968, Nixon 4. 1992, B Clinton 5. 1996, B Clinton 6. 2000, Gore* 7. 2016, H Clinton*
* = Led the popular vote, lost the Electoral College.
Wild the Republicans only had the majority of votes once in the last 32 years. And it was during the peak for W, post 9/11, war on terror, Iraq, etc.
Interesting that the election that Trump won, he got fewer votes than Hilary and yet when Biden won by a larger majority, the election was “stolen”.
ELI5: Why is the fraction of non-voters so high in the US?
Wow, this is a great visualization.
It’s not visually stunning but OP made many tasteful choices and clearly presented interesting info.
– More people voted for Biden than not at all, for the first time. Many people felt they couldn’t not participate. – You put the loser below the data and the winner above. This made it really clear that only on two occassions, GW Bush and Trump, the president (in bold) lost the popular vote. (I guess you didn’t need to italicize the loser in these cases, OP.) – The gap since 1988 has been pretty small. – 1968 to 1988 was a “Republican era” – 1992 onwards Democrats are edging out Republicans
Yellow was the wrong color for the consistently most popular choice
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Popular vote for a century, including those who did not vote.
Sources:
– Votes from 1984 https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/election-results-and-voting-information/
– Votes pre 1984 https://www.britannica.com/topic/United-States-Presidential-Election-Results-1788863 with data from the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and Congressional Quarterly’s Guide to U.S. Elections, 4th ed. (2001)
– Population https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/voter-turnout-in-presidential-elections with 1924 and 1928 calculated from the percentage column
(Tool used was Microsoft Excel)
The “didn’t vote” should be separated from “ineligible to vote” (age, citizenship, felony conviction). Voter turnout is typically measured as a percentage of eligible voters.
It’s Interesting to see the relative decrees in people not voting since the 1990s.
So Biden is the only candidate to ever beat didn’t vote?
Points of interest, maybe:
1. Biden in 2020 was the only candidate to receive more votes than the number who abstained.
2. More votes were cast for other candidates than the gap between the candidates for the main 2 parties 7 times. Those with the most votes in those elections were:
1. 1948, Truman
2. 1960, Kennedy
3. 1968, Nixon
4. 1992, B Clinton
5. 1996, B Clinton
6. 2000, Gore*
7. 2016, H Clinton*
* = Led the popular vote, lost the Electoral College.
Wild the Republicans only had the majority of votes once in the last 32 years. And it was during the peak for W, post 9/11, war on terror, Iraq, etc.
Interesting that the election that Trump won, he got fewer votes than Hilary and yet when Biden won by a larger majority, the election was “stolen”.
ELI5: Why is the fraction of non-voters so high in the US?
Wow, this is a great visualization.
It’s not visually stunning but OP made many tasteful choices and clearly presented interesting info.
– More people voted for Biden than not at all, for the first time. Many people felt they couldn’t not participate.
– You put the loser below the data and the winner above. This made it really clear that only on two occassions, GW Bush and Trump, the president (in bold) lost the popular vote. (I guess you didn’t need to italicize the loser in these cases, OP.)
– The gap since 1988 has been pretty small.
– 1968 to 1988 was a “Republican era”
– 1992 onwards Democrats are edging out Republicans
Yellow was the wrong color for the consistently most popular choice