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There was no systematic collection of voter turnout data by gender at a national level before 1964, but smaller local studies indicate a low turnout among female voters in the years following women's suffrage in the United States. For example, a 1924 study of voter turnout in Chicago found that "female Chicagoans were far less likely to have ...
Voter Turnout by Age Group: 60-64 years: 313,216 (55.8%) 65-69 years: 300,746 (58.3%) ... only 29% of Black voters have voted in Georgia compared with 32% at the same point during the last ...
Since 2012, the share of Black eligible voters has risen in most key states. Georgia saw the largest increase, with a 4 percentage point rise in the Black electorate. All the other swing states ...
As a share of the citizen voting-age population, Black voters were the only demographic with a decline in turnout. “If Black turnout instead went up by 1.9 percentage points (like white turnout ...
Black voters made up 29% of the electorate, and Latinos made up about 7%, a significant increase compared to previous years. Biden performed well across the board; he won independent voters by 9 points, and was able to pick up 6% of Republican voters in the state. Biden also won young voters in Georgia, sweeping each age group under 50 years old.
A 2018 study in The Journal of Politics found that Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act "increased black voter registration by 14–19 percentage points, white registration by 10–13 percentage points, and overall voter turnout by 10–19 percentage points. Additional results for Democratic vote share suggest that some of this overall ...
Between the 2018 and 2022 midterm elections alone, the turnout gap grew by 5 percentage points between white voters and nonwhite voters, and it grew by 8 points between white voters and Black ...
Black Voters Matter played a key role in the 2017 special election of Doug Jones to the United States Senate from Alabama.Jones was the first Democrat to fill the seat since 1992, [2] and Black voter turnout was especially notable in the election, with 98% of Black women casting votes for Jones.