Party affiliation among adults with some college education by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults with some college education by political party

% of adults with some college education who identify as…

Religious denominationRepublican/lean Rep.No leanDemocrat/lean Dem.Sample size
American Baptist Churches USA45%13%42%126
Assemblies of God62%16%22%147
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints73%14%13%215
Churches of Christ55%8%37%158
Episcopal Church39%12%48%103
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)46%10%44%179
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)60%13%26%262
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod64%13%23%133
National Baptist Convention1%8%91%118
Nondenominational evangelical66%15%19%201
Nothing in particular (religion important)27%25%48%543
Nothing in particular (religion not important)26%23%51%787
Southern Baptist Convention67%8%24%601
United Methodist Church58%11%31%430
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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