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US Registered Voters

Updated: Aug 6





Registered Voters by State, 2024

A  person can vote registers on an electoral roll before being permitted to vote. Voter registration may be automatic or require each eligible person to apply.  

About 66.8% of U.S. citizens 18 and older voted in the 2020 presidential election, the highest voter turnout of the 21st century. Despite COVID-19 concerns, 158.4 million people voted. In 2016, 139 million people voted, and almost 92 million eligible Americans did not vote. Moreover, voter turnout increased in every state compared to 2016.

States with the Highest and Lowest Voter Registration

State % of Voting Age, Pop. Registered

 District of Columbia 86.9%

New Jersey 84.6%

Minnesota 82.9%

Mississippi 80.4%

Oregon 79.9%

Maryland 78.6%

New Hampshire 78.3%

Montana 77.5%

Maine 77.4%

North Dakota 77.3%

Most states with less than 70% of eligible residents registered to vote are located in the South or Midwest. California has 18,001,000 registered voters, but because of the state's large population, this makes up only 69.4% of eligible voters. The same is true in Florida, where 67.1% of eligible residents are registered to vote, a total of 10,495,000 Floridians. 

Arkansas is the state with the lowest percentage of registered voters, at 62.0%

As of March 2024, 30 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands allowed voters to indicate their partisan affiliations on voter registration forms and reported total registration numbers publicly. The remaining states and territories either do not ask voters to indicate partisan affiliation on their registration forms, or had yet to publicly report those totals for the most recent year cited on this page at the time of the last update.

HIGHLIGHTS

As of March 2024, 45 million registered voters in these areas identified themselves as Democrats. At 38.28%, Democrats represented the single largest share of registered voters in the states and territories that allow voters to indicate partisan affiliation on their registration forms.

35.7 million registered voters identified themselves as Republicans, representing 30.35% of registered voters in these areas.

32.5 million registered voters identified themselves as independents or unaffiliated with any political party, or 27.67% of registered voters in these areas.

Approximately 4.3 million registered voters identified themselves as members of other political parties. This amounted to 3.7% of registered voters in these areas.

In the 2020 presidential election, Joe Biden (D) received a combined 53.5% of the vote to Donald Trump's (R) 44.7% across these states and territories. Both candidates received a more significant percentage of votes than the percentage of their respective party's registered voters.

Independent and minor-party voters comprised 31.80% of all registered voters in these areas, while independent and minor-party presidential candidates received about 1.9% of nationwide votes.


Voter registration figures, 2024

The map below shows the 30 states publicly displaying voter registration figures as of March 2024. One territory, the U.S. Virgin Islands, also publishes this data.

  • In 23 of these areas, no single group of voters made up a majority of registered voters.

  • Democrats were the majority of registered voters in two areas—Maryland and the U.S. Virgin Islands—and eight others were the most significant plurality of registered voters.

  • Republicans were a majority of registered voters in five areas—Idaho, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming—and the most significant plurality of registered voters in seven others.

  • Most registered voters were independent or unaffiliated with any political party in one area—Massachusetts—and comprised the most significant plurality in eight others.

  • Members of other political parties were neither the most significant plurality nor a majority in any of the states or territories covered.

The table below shows voter registration figures in the 30 states and territories that permit voters to indicate partisan affiliation on their voter registration forms. Shading indicates the partisan affiliation of the largest percentage of voters in each state.


 

 










Voter registration figures by partisan affiliation as of March 2024

State

Total registrants

Democratic Party

% Democratic

Republican Party

% Republican

Independent

% Independent

Other parties

% Other parties

Alaska

602,498

74,961

12.44%

142,955

23.73%

268,958

44.64%

115,624

19.19%

Arizona

4,096,260

1,200,191

29.30%

1,436,757

35.07%

1,396,999

34.10%

62,313

1.52%

California

22,077,412

10,323,214

46.76%

5,332,858

24.16%

4,845,113

21.95%

1,576,227

7.14%

Colorado

3,810,616

1,020,417

26.78%

903,184

23.70%

1,816,251

47.66%

70,764

1.86%

Connecticut

2,217,227

800,492

36.10%

460,789

20.78%

920,607

41.52%

35,339

1.59%

Delaware

768,978

353,229

45.93%

206,596

26.87%

171,251

22.27%

37,902

4.93%

Florida

13,350,409

4,362,147

32.67%

5,141,848

38.51%

3,528,807

26.43%

317,607

2.38%

Idaho

996,731

126,235

12.66%

579,391

58.13%

275,697

27.66%

15,408

1.55%

Iowa

1,528,332

466,945

30.55%

612,144

40.05%

439,066

28.73%

10,177

0.67%

Kansas 

1,957,610

506,302

25.86%

870,153

44.45%

556,996

28.45%

24,159

1.23%

Kentucky

3,491,803

1,520,663

43.55%

1,611,760

46.16%

150,795

4.32%

208,585

5.97%

Louisiana

2,976,892

1,142,584

38.38%

1,011,247

33.97%

823,061

27.65%

0

0.00%

Maine

948,734

343,488

36.20%

279,936

29.51%

273,298

28.81%

52,012

5.48%

Maryland

4,170,689

2,221,517

53.26%

989,200

23.72%

887,739

21.29%

72,233

1.73%

Massachusetts

4,781,556

1,386,550

29.00%

421,333

8.81%

2,920,375

61.08%

53,298

1.11%

Nebraska

1,227,658

332,066

27.05%

602,197

49.05%

269,224

21.93%

24,171

1.97%

Nevada

1,933,056

595,943

30.83%

559,743

28.96%

637,227

32.96%

140,143

7.25%

New Hampshire]

890,576

260,281

29.23%

304,375

34.18%

325,920

36.60%

0

0%

New Jersey

6,524,732

2,496,518

38.26%

1,549,728

23.75%

2,399,196

36.77%

79,290

1.22%

New Mexico

1,328,593

577,707

43.48%

413,341

31.11%

310,134

23.34%

27,411

2.06%

New York

12,040,156

5,886,085

48.89%

2,696,999

22.40%

2,878,289

23.91%

578,783

4.81%

North Carolina

7,460,651

2,417,491

32.40%

2,239,481

30.02%

2,744,126

36.78%

59,553

0.80%

Oklahoma[25]

2,301,188

652,611

28.36%

1,190,626

51.74%

436,041

18.95%

21,910

0.95%

Oregon[26]

3,003,968

994,213

33.10%

718,730

23.93%

1,088,784

36.24%

202,241

6.73%

Pennsylvania

8,681,734

3,893,342

44.85%

3,475,267

40.03%

969,270

11.16%

343,855

3.96%

Rhode Island

720,620

283,241

39.31%

99,304

13.78%

338,075

46.91%

0

0.00%

South Dakota

598,686

145,518

24.31%

300,964

50.27%

87,916

14.68%

64,288

10.74%

U.S. Virgin Islands

29,533

20,059

67.92%

940

3.18%

7,767

26.30%

767

2.60%

Utah

1,688,559

229,252

13.58%

887,289

52.55%

473,158

28.02%

98,860

5.85%

West Virginia

1,174,199

365,224

31.10%

469,995

40.03%

287,729

24.50%

51,251

4.36%

Wyoming]

217,769

23,236

10.67%

177,598

81.55%

15,550

7.14%

1,385

0.64%

 

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