My first guess would be median age, as old people have a higher voter turnout, but then why are FL and WV in the bottom 10?
Maybe it’s the ease of voting in each state?
Nevada, the swing state with the lowest voter participation at 61.5%, Wisconsin has the highest of the swing states at 73.6%.
nice chart
but isnt stating *”citizens 18 years or older”* unnecessary?
I had no idea that Florida was so low.
I recommend making the bottom 10 ascending. The lowest score should be the first in the list.
These are actually fantastic turnout rates and are the best they have been in decades.
It’s pretty disappointing to see Nevada and Utah below 65% when they conduct all mail voting. All a person would have to do is fill in the ballot and drop it in their mailbox.
So many people choose not to vote and then complain about the results.
Wouldn’t have guessed Arkansas was the least
2020 was a huge year for turnout even compared to 2008. Turnout was huge in 2020.
Mississippi is the one that’s most interesting to me. It has an extremely high African American population, presumably leaning more Democratic. One would expect a closer statewide race with such a high voter turnout.
Almost amusing how my deeply red state that is a formality has more turn out percentage wise than multiple swing states that get millions and millions of dollars in campaign ads dominating their media.
There’s a lot of juice left in that fruit.
Idea: National Lottery. $1 goes in the fund for each person who votes. 140 million goes in, one voter gets all.
Some of the mail-in ballot states are embarrassingly too low.
I would also like to see average county turnout per state.
And I’d like to see percentage by party per state and per county
If 69% is the national average, how close to that national average is each county for each party?
Surprised Mississippi is so high, especially when compared with its neighbor Arkansas
VOTE. It’s so easy. Just make sure you REGISTER.
To be 100% real… Mississippi looks kinda hinky to me, here.
Arkansas sucked. Within an hour of getting on the ballot, the Democrat running for Senator dropped out, leaving the position unopposed.
Also the first person on the ballot for president was Kanye because they drew randomly.
publicans should boycott this election, there is no one worth voting for…….💡
I see bad Data all the time. Massachusetts was 75%. 3.6 million out of 4.8 million. Pretty simple. Pretty steady as it doesn’t matter. Any good poly op is in another state. Last race it mattered was 1992 Clinton – we got 88%. It’s just a waste of time and $$ here. We have 3 congressional seats drawn for Republicans in theory, but once a race takes place, we Dems just get off our butts and get the other folks out. Most of the non voters live in districts with literally no down ballot races and new polling places or hard to get to. My towns lowest precinct voting % is off a different highway exit and a good 12 minute drive away. We have 7 precinct but everyone votes at the high school . It’s stupid. They just have 7 lines at the high school gym.
“I’m happy to give Kamala my completely irrelevant New Jersey vote.” – Jon Stewart.
Me too, Jon… Me too. I love how engaged we are as a state, but it does make top level voting feel more formality than necessity. (That said, I’m obviously going to vote, and you should too.)
I’d really like to see this side by side with the results of this year.
I’m proud of New Hampshire for being so high… and then immediately reminded that they’re all awful boomers.
Any data on how many people of voting age died since 2020?
Even safe states can be swing states if everyone leaning towards the opposing party decides to vote.
This seems to dispel the conventional wisdom that heavily partisan leaning races depress voter turnout. You would expect much higher turnout in swing states and lower in solid red or solid blue states. Interestingly it almost appears to be the opposite.
I think it goes to show that things like gerrymandering or being in a state where the outcome is already known with certainty don’t necessarily depress turnout. Or at least that voting right laws and ballot accessibility is far more a determining factor.
Or maybe Florida and Texas are just full of people who don’t care about politics.
These are a lot higher than I expected tbh
We should make voting compulsory, like Australia does.
NJ leading the way, as per usual. Catch up, America!
Pathetic.
I don’t want to think like this but I don’t know any other way to get people involved. To get any funding or assistance you have to participate. I know there are many reasons especially for working families….but saying I don’t like the choices….then do a write in.
California made it Super Easy to vote and only 65% voted. They literally sent the ballots to your HOUSE. Had in person voting for weeks, if that’s what you chose. That’s disappointing.
But California knows it’s a not a swing state and it’s where the money comes from. We DO have wealthy people here who give to both parties. LA for Dems. OC for the ‘Pubs.
If the DNC isn’t looking at that bottom 10 and trying to increase voter turnout in those states, someone needs to be fired.
20 MILLION boomers have died since 2020. 40 MILLION Gen Z have come into voting age in that time period. Trump is losing this election by a mile.
I honestly thought it would be <50%.
Australian here I find it shocking that the US voter turnout figures are so low , in 2022 our federal election turnout was 90.9%
Minnesota makes it easy to vote. The people promote voting too.
When I owned my first home, I would mow a path across my property to make it easier for people to walk to the polling place.
My last home, the polling place was three blocks away.
My home now, the polling place is one block away.
When I lived in the sticks and on the range, the polling places were a short drive to town.
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Source: Census Bureau ([Table 4a here](https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/voting-and-registration/p20-585.html))
Tools: Datawrapper, Illustrator
NJ is higher than I thought it would be
What could be causing these disparities?
My first guess would be median age, as old people have a higher voter turnout, but then why are FL and WV in the bottom 10?
Maybe it’s the ease of voting in each state?
Nevada, the swing state with the lowest voter participation at 61.5%, Wisconsin has the highest of the swing states at 73.6%.
nice chart
but isnt stating *”citizens 18 years or older”* unnecessary?
I had no idea that Florida was so low.
I recommend making the bottom 10 ascending. The lowest score should be the first in the list.
These are actually fantastic turnout rates and are the best they have been in decades.
It’s pretty disappointing to see Nevada and Utah below 65% when they conduct all mail voting. All a person would have to do is fill in the ballot and drop it in their mailbox.
So many people choose not to vote and then complain about the results.
Wouldn’t have guessed Arkansas was the least
2020 was a huge year for turnout even compared to 2008. Turnout was huge in 2020.
Mississippi is the one that’s most interesting to me. It has an extremely high African American population, presumably leaning more Democratic. One would expect a closer statewide race with such a high voter turnout.
Almost amusing how my deeply red state that is a formality has more turn out percentage wise than multiple swing states that get millions and millions of dollars in campaign ads dominating their media.
There’s a lot of juice left in that fruit.
Idea: National Lottery. $1 goes in the fund for each person who votes. 140 million goes in, one voter gets all.
Some of the mail-in ballot states are embarrassingly too low.
I would also like to see average county turnout per state.
And I’d like to see percentage by party per state and per county
If 69% is the national average, how close to that national average is each county for each party?
Surprised Mississippi is so high, especially when compared with its neighbor Arkansas
VOTE. It’s so easy. Just make sure you REGISTER.
To be 100% real… Mississippi looks kinda hinky to me, here.
Arkansas sucked. Within an hour of getting on the ballot, the Democrat running for Senator dropped out, leaving the position unopposed.
Also the first person on the ballot for president was Kanye because they drew randomly.
publicans should boycott this election, there is no one worth voting for…….💡
I see bad Data all the time. Massachusetts was 75%. 3.6 million out of 4.8 million. Pretty simple. Pretty steady as it doesn’t matter. Any good poly op is in another state.
Last race it mattered was 1992 Clinton – we got 88%.
It’s just a waste of time and $$ here. We have 3 congressional seats drawn for Republicans in theory, but once a race takes place, we Dems just get off our butts and get the other folks out.
Most of the non voters live in districts with literally no down ballot races and new polling places or hard to get to. My towns lowest precinct voting % is off a different highway exit and a good 12 minute drive away. We have 7 precinct but everyone votes at the high school . It’s stupid. They just have 7 lines at the high school gym.
“I’m happy to give Kamala my completely irrelevant New Jersey vote.” – Jon Stewart.
Me too, Jon… Me too. I love how engaged we are as a state, but it does make top level voting feel more formality than necessity. (That said, I’m obviously going to vote, and you should too.)
I’d really like to see this side by side with the results of this year.
I’m proud of New Hampshire for being so high… and then immediately reminded that they’re all awful boomers.
Any data on how many people of voting age died since 2020?
Even safe states can be swing states if everyone leaning towards the opposing party decides to vote.
This seems to dispel the conventional wisdom that heavily partisan leaning races depress voter turnout. You would expect much higher turnout in swing states and lower in solid red or solid blue states. Interestingly it almost appears to be the opposite.
I think it goes to show that things like gerrymandering or being in a state where the outcome is already known with certainty don’t necessarily depress turnout. Or at least that voting right laws and ballot accessibility is far more a determining factor.
Or maybe Florida and Texas are just full of people who don’t care about politics.
These are a lot higher than I expected tbh
We should make voting compulsory, like Australia does.
NJ leading the way, as per usual. Catch up, America!
Pathetic.
I don’t want to think like this but I don’t know any other way to get people involved. To get any funding or assistance you have to participate. I know there are many reasons especially for working families….but saying I don’t like the choices….then do a write in.
California made it Super Easy to vote and only 65% voted. They literally sent the ballots to your HOUSE. Had in person voting for weeks, if that’s what you chose. That’s disappointing.
But California knows it’s a not a swing state and it’s where the money comes from. We DO have wealthy people here who give to both parties. LA for Dems. OC for the ‘Pubs.
If the DNC isn’t looking at that bottom 10 and trying to increase voter turnout in those states, someone needs to be fired.
20 MILLION boomers have died since 2020. 40 MILLION Gen Z have come into voting age in that time period. Trump is losing this election by a mile.
I honestly thought it would be <50%.
Australian here I find it shocking that the US voter turnout figures are so low , in 2022 our federal election turnout was 90.9%
Minnesota makes it easy to vote. The people promote voting too.
When I owned my first home, I would mow a path across my property to make it easier for people to walk to the polling place.
My last home, the polling place was three blocks away.
My home now, the polling place is one block away.
When I lived in the sticks and on the range, the polling places were a short drive to town.