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 Youth
Voting in the 2006 Midterm Elections, Ages 18-29
To download the factsheets for a particular
state, click on the name of the state below. For national
findings, click on United States.
The following fact sheets report the characteristics
of young voters nationally and by state, including estimates
of the number of young voters, voter turnout in 2002 and
1994 for various sub-groups of young people, and estimates
of young voter partisanship in 2002 and 2006.
Note to Media: Whether
the voter mobilization momentum of 2004 continues into
2006 remains unpredictable. However, it would be a mistake
to compare either state-level or national youth voter
turnout in 2006 to 2004 since presidential elections generally
draw more voters to the polls, and hence have higher voter
turnout rates. Instead, the two appropriate comparisons
are 2002, the last time midterm elections occurred, and
1994, the last time midterm elections followed a surge
in youth voting in a presidential election (1992).
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