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Sep 23, 2020 · By Ruth Igielnik and Abby Budiman. September 23, 2020. The upcoming 2020 presidential election has drawn renewed attention to how demographic shifts across the United States have changed the composition of the electorate. How we did this. Terminology.
- Shannon Greenwood
- Party Identification
- Race and Ethnicity
- Age and Generation
- Education
- Religion
- The Key Question: What About Voter Turnout?
Around a third of registered voters in the U.S. (34%) identify as independents, while 33% identify as Democrats and 29% identify as Republicans, according to a Center analysis of Americans’ partisan identificationbased on surveys of more than 12,000 registered voters in 2018 and 2019. Most independents in the U.S. lean toward one of the two major p...
Non-Hispanic White Americans make up the largest share of registered voters in the U.S., at 69% of the totalas of 2019. Hispanic and Black registered voters each account for 11% of the total, while those from other racial or ethnic backgrounds account for the remainder (8%). White voters account for a diminished share of registered voters than in t...
The U.S. electorate is aging: 52% of registered voters are ages 50 and older, up from 41% in 1996. This shift has occurred in both partisan coalitions. More than half of Republican and GOP-leaning voters (56%) are ages 50 and older, up from 39% in 1996. And among Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters, half are 50 and older, up from 41% in 1996. ...
Around two-thirds of registered voters in the U.S. (65%) do not have a college degree, while 36% do. But the share of voters with a college degree has risen substantially since 1996, when 24% had one. Voters who identify with the Democratic Party or lean toward it are much more likely than their Republican counterparts to have a college degree (41%...
Christians account for the majorityof registered voters in the U.S. (64%). But this figure is down from 79% as recently as 2008. The share of voters who identify as religiously unaffiliated has nearly doubled during that span, from 15% to 28%. The share of WhiteChristians in the electorate, in particular, has decreased in recent years. White evange...
Surveys can provide reliable estimates about registered voters in the U.S. and how their partisan, demographic and religious profile has changed over time. But the critical question of voter turnout– who will be motivated to cast a ballot and who will not – is more difficult to answer. For one thing, not all registered voters end up voting. In 2016...
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Mar 23, 2023 · Demographic change. Figure 1 displays trends in the demographic composition of the American electorate between 1980 and 2020. The data displayed in this graph show that the electorate that voted for Joe Biden in 2020 was very different from the electorate that voted for Ronald Reagan in 1980.
May 10, 2021 · White college-educated voters made up about 28 percent of the electorate in 2020 — about as much as all nonwhite voters combined. So winning college-educated whites by 54 to 46 percent matters...
- Andrew Prokop
Sep 2, 2020 · How changing U.S. demographics have reshaped the electorate since 2016. Election season is in full swing, and President Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden are both on the...
Jul 1, 2021 · CNN —. More than half a year after the 2020 presidential election, research is starting to provide a more precise picture of the demographic composition of the 2020 electorate, how various ...
Aug 6, 2021 · In the 2020 election, voter turnout surged as more Americans cast ballots than in any presidential election in a century, despite a global pandemic. This was true for the entire electorate as well as for each racial group — more Black Americans voted in 2020 than any presidential election since 2012, and Latino Americans and Asian Americans ...
