Despite unique challenges to voter registration and voting created by COVID-19 and heightened concerns about turnout as a result, the 2020 election had the highest voter turnout of the 21st century. The 2020 election featured the largest increase in voters between two presidential elections on record with 17 million more people voting than in 2016.
Voting and Registration For every national election since 1964, we collected data on the characteristics of American voters. Find out how many citizens of voting age are registered, and how many vote, by age and sex, race and ethnicity, and more.
More voters (154.6 million) turned out for the presidential election in 2020 than in 2016 (137.5 million), the largest increase between consecutive presidential elections since the inception of the CPS voting supplement in 1964.
In the last presidential election, 70% of the voting-eligible population registered to vote and 61% voted. Almost 9 in 10 registered voters cast a ballot.
The 2020 presidential election was the highest turn-out election of the twenty-first century and featured the largest increase in voters from one presidential year to the next. While many states maintained tradi-tional voting procedures, the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic led some states to expand early voting, while others automatically sent all registered voters a ballot that could be ...
National elections generally fall into two categories: elections where congressional seats are the highest offices decided and years where voters decide on the office of the President and congressional seats. Election results and voting patterns tend to vary between these two types of elections. Voter turnout is consistently higher in years with presidential races (File and Crissey, 2010; File ...
Election worker Roger Phillips walks inside Oak Lawn Branch Library on the first day of early voting, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026, in Dallas. Voting has always been a private tradition for Michael Ray, and ...