Voters & Voting

The term Latinx has emerged in recent years as a gender-neutral alternative to the pan-ethnic terms Latino, Latina and Hispanic. However, awareness of Latinx is relatively low among the population it is meant to describe.

Neither party nets an overall advantage from the 9% of voters who have switched since 2018.

As the nation’s economy contracted at a record rate in recent months, the group’s unemployment rate rose sharply, particularly among Hispanic women, and remains higher among Hispanic workers than U.S. workers overall.

65% of Americans say the option to vote early or absentee should be available to any voter without requiring a documented reason.

The share of Americans voting by mail has risen in recent presidential election cycles, but there is variation from one state to another.

The gender gap in party identification remains the widest in a quarter century.

More than 11 million Asian Americans will be able to vote this year, making up nearly 5% of the eligible voters in the United States.

Overall, 70% of U.S. adults favor allowing any voter to vote by mail if they want to.

Older adults tend to account for large shares of both poll workers and voters in general elections in the United States.

Nearly seven-in-ten registered voters say postponing state primary elections has been a necessary step to address the coronavirus outbreak.