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

% of baby Boomers who identify as…

Religious denominationRepublican/lean Rep.No leanDemocrat/lean Dem.Sample size
American Baptist Churches USA44%15%41%194
Assemblies of God60%12%28%190
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints69%8%23%209
Churches of Christ47%11%41%182
Episcopal Church44%10%46%215
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)38%13%49%260
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)61%16%23%354
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod58%12%30%184
National Baptist Convention5%8%87%216
Nondenominational evangelical71%12%17%270
Nothing in particular (religion important)27%24%49%650
Nothing in particular (religion not important)26%20%54%945
Presbyterian Church (USA)47%8%45%173
Southern Baptist Convention61%8%31%791
United Church of Christ23%13%64%101
United Methodist Church54%10%36%677
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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