According to a September 2024 survey of adults in the United States, Baby Boomers and the Silent Generation were the most likely to vote in the 2024 presidential election, with ** percent and ** percent stating that they were definitely going to vote, respectively. In comparison, ** percent of Gen Z and Millennial Americans said they were definitely planning to vote in November.
In 2024, 80.5 percent of people aged between 65 and 74 years old were registered to vote in the United States - the highest share of any age group. In comparison, 58.3 percent of 18 to 24 year-olds were registered to vote in that year.
By 2028, it is estimated that Gen Z and millennial voters will comprise the majority of eligible voters in the United States. In the upcoming 2024 presidential election, Gen Z and millennial voters will make up around **** percent of eligible voters in the country.
Since 1964, voter turnout rates in U.S. presidential elections have generally fluctuated across all age groups, falling to a national low in 1996, before rising again in the past two decades. Since 1988, there has been a direct correlation with voter participation and age, as people become more likely to vote as they get older. Participation among eligible voters under the age of 25 is the lowest of all age groups, and in the 1996 and 2000 elections, fewer than one third of eligible voters under the age of 25 participated, compared with more than two thirds of voters over 65 years.
According to a November 2023 survey, motivation levels among 18 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 to vote in the 2024 presidential election has lessened compared to past elections, compared to only eight percent of voters between 35 and 49 years old.
As of May 2024, just over half of Gen Z and Millennial adults in the U.S. were certain of who they would vote for in the 2024 presidential election. Comparatively, ** percent of the Silent Generation had completely made up their minds regarding who they would vote for in November.
According to a 2023 survey, Americans between 18 and 29 years of age were more likely to identify with the Democratic Party than any other surveyed age group. While 39 percent identified as Democrats, only 14 percent identified ad Republicans. However, those 50 and older identified more with the Republican Party.
During the weeks leading up to the presidential election, early voting began in almost all states, with over ** million ballots being cast nationally as of Election Day. Although ** percent of mail-in and early in-person votes were cast by voters aged 65 or older, ** percent of those aged 18 to 29 years old voted early.
According to exit polling in ten key states of the 2024 presidential election in the United States, Donald Trump received the most support from men between the ages of ** and **. In comparison, ** percent of women between the ages of ** and ** reported voting for Kamala Harris.
In the lead-up to the 2022 midterm election, an estimated ** million people registered to vote in the last year. Of those, around ***** percent of registrants were between the ages of ** and **. The total number of new registrants since ************* can be found here.
This statistic shows the voter participation in the United States 2016 presidential election, by age. In the 2016 presidential election, ** percent of voters between the ages of 18 and 24 years reported voting.
According to exit polling in the 2020 Presidential Election in the United States, ** percent of surveyed 18 to 29 year old voters reported voting for former Vice President Joe Biden. In the race to become the next president of the United States, ** percent of voters aged 65 and older reported voting for incumbent President Donald Trump.
This statistic illustrates the participation rate of voters in the United States midterm elections from 2002 to 2022, by age. In 2022, 25.6 percent of voters aged 18 to 24-years-old voted in the midterm elections, compared to 64.6 percent of voters aged 65 years and older.
According to a survey just days after the election, ** percent of surveyed Americans between the ages of ** and ** reported voting at their assigned polling places or vote centers on Election Day. In comparison, only ** percent of those ** and older voted at their assigned polling places or vote centers on Election Day.
In the 2024 presidential election, about ** percent of voters aged between 18 and 29 participated in the election -- a slight decrease from the previous election year, when about ** percent of youths voted in the election. The highest youth turnout rate was in 1972, when **** percent of voters between the ages of ** and ** voted in the election.
According to a 2023 survey of young adults in the United States, just over half of Americans between 18 and 24 years old were planning on voting in the 2024 presidential election. The likelihood among those between the ages of ** and ** was only slightly greater.
In U.S. presidential elections since 1964, voters in the 18 to 24 age bracket have traditionally had the lowest turnout rates among all ethnicities. From 1964 until 1996, white voters in this age bracket had the highest turnout rates of the four major ethnic groups in the U.S., particularly those of non-Hispanic origin. However participation was highest among young Black voters in 2008 and 2012, during the elections where Barack Obama, the U.S.' first African-American major party candidate, was nominated. Young Asian American and Hispanic voters generally have the lowest turnout rates, and were frequently below half of the overall 18 to 24 turnout before the 2000s.
This statistic shows the number of voters in the United States in 2012, by age groups. The number of voters between 18 and 24 years amounted to 11.3 million.
In 2024, Millennials were the largest generation group in the United States, making up about 21.81 percent of the population. However, Generation Z was not far behind, with Gen Z accounting for around 20.81 percent of the population in that year.
This statistic shows the percent of eligible voters who voted in the 2012 U.S. presidential election, by age group. In 2012, 45 percent of 18 to 29 year olds who were eligible to vote voted in the U.S. presidential election.
According to a September 2024 survey of adults in the United States, Baby Boomers and the Silent Generation were the most likely to vote in the 2024 presidential election, with ** percent and ** percent stating that they were definitely going to vote, respectively. In comparison, ** percent of Gen Z and Millennial Americans said they were definitely planning to vote in November.