Key facts about Hispanic eligible voters in 2024
An estimated 36.2 million Hispanics are eligible to vote this year, up from 32.3 million in 2020.
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An estimated 36.2 million Hispanics are eligible to vote this year, up from 32.3 million in 2020.
U.S. Hispanics’ policy views do not always align with those of non-Latinos in the same party, recent surveys have found.
At least 76 of the voting members of the 117th Congress are foreign born or have at least one parent born in another country.
Latinos agree that the U.S. immigration system needs an overhaul; large shares say it requires major changes or needs to be completely rebuilt.
The number of Black immigrants living in the country reached 4.6 million in 2019, up from roughly 800,000 in 1980.
54% of Hispanics in the U.S. say establishing a way for most unauthorized immigrants to stay in the country legally is very important.
Since 2000, the size of the immigrant electorate has nearly doubled. More than 23 million U.S. immigrants will be eligible to vote in the 2020 presidential election.
In a growing number of U.S. counties, a majority of residents are Hispanic or black, reflecting the nation’s changing demographics.
The U.S. Black population is growing. At the same time, how Black people self-identify is changing, with increasing shares considering themselves multiracial or Hispanic.
Latinos are expected for the first time to be the nation’s largest racial or ethnicity minority in a U.S. presidential election.
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