---
title: "Hispanic Partisan Split"
description: "Some 57% of Hispanic registered voters now say they are Democrats or lean Democratic while just 23% align with the Republican Party -- a 34-percentage-point gap in partisan affiliation."
date: "2007-12-28"
authors:
  - name: "Russell Heimlich"
    job_title: "Former web developer"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2007/12/28/hispanic-partisan-split/"
categories:
  - "Hispanic/Latino Voters"
  - "Voter Demographics"
---

# Hispanic Partisan Split

After spending the first part of this decade loosening their historic ties to the Democratic Party, Hispanic voters have apparently reversed course in the past year; in a new Pew Hispanic Center survey, some 57% of Latino registered voters now say they are Democrats or lean toward the Democratic Party, while just 23% align with the Republican Party — a 34-percentage-point gap in partisan affiliation. In July 2006, the same gap measured just 21 percentage points having shrunk from 33 points in 1999. [Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/644/english-language-usage-hispanics)