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Voter turnout in US elections is the total number of votes cast by the voting age population (VAP), or more recently, the voting eligible population (VEP), divided by the entire voting eligible population. It is usually displayed as a percentage, showing which percentage of eligible voters actually voted.
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 ...
Eligible female voters have turned out at a higher rate than eligible male voters in every election since 1980, according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University ...
In 2020, African American voters made up about 13% of the U.S. electorate, with a record 30 million eligible to vote that year, according to Black Men Vote, another organization dedicated to ...
In Louisiana, by 1900, black voters were reduced to 5,320 on the rolls, although they comprised the majority of the state's population. By 1910, only 730 blacks were registered, less than 0.5% of eligible black men. "In 27 of the state's 60 parishes, not a single black voter was registered any longer; in 9 more parishes, only one black voter was."
Population data are from 2021 American Community Survey and 2020 census population estimates. Districts in the table below reflect the 118th Congress. [1]Currently, there are 26 congressional districts where African Americans make up a majority of constituents, mostly in the South.
On Oct. 23, 2020, 566,162 Black voters had cast an in-person or mail-in ballot, according to state data. That compares with 358,880 this year — a difference of more than 207,000 votes.
When the United States Constitution was ratified (1789), a small number of free blacks were among the voting citizens (male property owners) in some states. [1] Most black men in the United States were, however, not able to exercise the right to vote until after the American Civil War with the Reconstruction Amendments.