Voter Demographics

In battleground states, Hispanics grew more than other racial or ethnic groups as a share of eligible voters.

About eight-in-ten Latino registered voters and U.S. voters overall rate the economy as very important to their vote.

Our analysis of verified voters examines what 2016 voters and nonvoters did in the 2018 midterm elections and offers a detailed portrait of the demographic composition and vote choices of the 2018 electorate.

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.

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.

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

California has more immigrant eligible voters (5.5 million) than any other state, followed by New York, Florida, Texas and New Jersey.

Black Democrats have consistently seen themselves as moderate. They are also highly religious and more likely to say racism is a very big problem.