Party affiliation by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination by political party

% of adults who identify as…

Religious denominationRepublican/lean Rep.No leanDemocrat/lean Dem.Sample size
African Methodist Episcopal Church4%4%92%117
American Baptist Churches USA41%16%42%467
Anglican Church58%5%37%111
Assemblies of God57%17%27%460
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)52%22%26%111
Church of God in Christ14%11%75%165
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints71%11%18%641
Church of the Nazarene63%13%24%101
Churches of Christ50%11%39%498
Episcopal Church39%12%49%494
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)43%10%47%641
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)57%16%27%825
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.)48%16%36%206
Interdenominational (Mainline Trad.)37%12%50%139
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod59%14%27%459
National Baptist Convention5%8%87%462
Nondenominational charismatic59%11%30%187
Nondenominational evangelical69%12%18%684
Nondenominational fundamentalist66%20%13%107
Nothing in particular (religion important)27%28%45%2,015
Nothing in particular (religion not important)24%24%52%2,969
Presbyterian Church (USA)44%10%47%428
Presbyterian Church in America60%6%34%158
Seventh-day Adventist35%19%45%165
Southern Baptist Convention64%10%26%1,845
Spiritual but not religious18%35%47%128
Unitarian14%2%84%165
United Church of Christ31%11%58%227
United Methodist Church54%11%35%1,637
Sample sizes and margins of error vary from subgroup to subgroup, from year to year and from state to state. You can see the sample size for the estimates in this chart on rollover or in the last column of the table. And visit this table to see approximate margins of error for a group of a given size. Readers should always bear in mind the approximate margin of error for the group they are examining when making comparisons with other groups or assessing the significance of trends over time. For full question wording, see the survey questionnaire.

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