---
title: "Fewer Voters Identify as Republicans"
description: "The balance of party identification in the American electorate now favors the Democratic Party by a decidedly larger margin than in either of the two previous presidential election cycles. In 5,566 interviews with registered voters conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press during the first two months of 2008, 36% […]"
date: "2008-03-20"
authors:
  - name: "Pew Research Center"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2008/03/20/fewer-voters-identify-as-republicans-2/"
categories:
  - "Party Identification"
  - "Political Parties"
  - "Voters & Voting"
---

# Fewer Voters Identify as Republicans

The balance of party identification in the American electorate now favors the Democratic Party by a decidedly larger margin than in either of the two previous presidential election cycles. In 5,566 interviews with registered voters conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press during the first two months of 2008, 36% identify themselves as Democrats, and just 27% as Republicans. The share of voters who call themselves Republicans has declined by six points since 2004, and represents, on an annualized basis, the lowest percentage of self-identified Republican voters in 16 years of polling by the Center.

[Read the full analysis at Pewresearch.org](https://www.pewresearch.org/2008/03/20/fewer-voters-identify-as-republicans/)