Despite higher turnout, wide disparities by age and race in voting persist

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June 28, 2021

Behind Biden’s 2020 Victory

Despite higher turnout, wide disparities by age and race in voting persist

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Despite higher turnout, wide disparities by age and race in voting persist

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Behind Biden’s 2020 Victory
Voters who voted in 2018 but not 2016 favored Biden in 2020
The gender gap narrowed among White voters
As in 2016 and 2018, wide educational differences among 2020 voters
Biden substantially increased Democratic support among independents from 2016
Young voters were a strong group for the Democrats, but less so than in 2018
Democrats gained among suburban voters in 2018 and 2020
Stable voting patterns among most religious groups
Biden’s voters more racially and ethnically diverse than Trump’s, but GOP voters slightly less likely to be White in 2020 than in 2016
Higher share of Biden’s voters were from suburban areas compared with Clinton
Differences in educational attainment of Trump, Biden coalitions
Nearly half of Biden’s voters were younger than 50
Catholics were about one-fifth of both candidates’ voters in 2020
White evangelical Protestants constituted roughly a third of voters for Republican candidates in the past three elections
Large share of voters cast a ballot by absentee or mail in the 2020 election
Black voters were more likely than others to cast ballots in person before Election Day in 2020
Sizable divides in candidate support by vote method
As in 2016, voters in 2020 had higher incomes and more formal education than nonvoters

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