Us Election Voter Turnout Over Time

In 1900 the year that republican william mckinley won reelection the voter turnout was 73 7 percent.

Us election voter turnout over time. The us appears to be on track to see over 160 million votes cast in the us presidential election 2020 a turnout rate of about 67 per cent which is higher than the country has witnessed. This was an increase on the voting turnout in 2012. No matter how they re measured u s.

Since 1976 voting age turnout has remained within an 8 5 percentage point range from just under 50 in 1996 when bill clinton was reelected to just over 58 in 2008 when barack obama won the white house. Current estimates suggest that 160 million people exercised their right to vote with a turnout of 66 9. Turnout rates have been fairly consistent over the past several decades despite some election to election variation.

Selected voter turnout rates by demographic groups from the census bureau s current population survey corrected for vote over report and non response bias. In 2016 138 847 000 votes were cast representing some 60 1 of the voting eligible population according to the united states elections project. Mcdonald s voter turnout data for 2016 is 60 1 and 50 for 2018.

Leading into some elections near real time early voting statistics mail ballots or in person are collected for states or localities where available. Later analysis by the university of california santa barbara s american presidency project found that there were 235 248 000 people of voting age in the united states in the 2012 election resulting in 2012 voting age population vap turnout of 54 9.