by Mark Hugo Lopez, Karlo Barrios Marcelo, and Emily Hoban Kirby
June 2007
This fact sheet uses new data from the 2006 Current Population Survey, November Supplement, to determine the youth voter turnout in the 2006 midterm election. The data confirm early estimates by CIRCLE that 10.8 million young Americans voted in the 2006 midterm elections. The voter turnout rate was 25.5 percent in 2006, up 3 percentage points from the last midterm election in 2002. Also, this fact sheet includes information on voter turnout trend lines, voter turnout by demographic variables, voter turnout by state, and partisanship.
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Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement
Thank you for giving us this statistics. I found your investigation very intresting and useful to me.But here we see that the population of the age 30 is much more active than the youth.
I’m happy that there is such an increase in voting, you anylisis sounds promissing that one day we will see all 100 percent of the youth going the voting boxes… I wish you success, continue to work like this!
Thank you for this analysis. I’m student of sociological department. I need such surveys for my diploma. I think I can take this subject for the basis.Keep up your work.
Through this analysis I can conclude that more youth now are eagerly participating and want to participate the so called the gift of democracy
Thank you for this information. You have done a great job. So many figures, everything is so exactly. Now we can see all demografic picture of the alection.Thank you for highlighting this. Keep up your work.
really very useful information, thank you, I wish you continued good sharing.