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A map of voter turnout during the 2020 United States presidential election by state (no data for Washington, D.C.) Approximately 161 million people were registered to vote in the 2020 presidential election and roughly 96.3% ballots were submitted, totaling 158,427,986 votes. Roughly 81 million eligible voters did not cast a ballot. [3]
A gender gap in voting typically refers to the difference in the percentage of men and women who vote for a particular candidate. [1] It is calculated by subtracting the percentage of women supporting a candidate from the percentage of men supporting a candidate (e.g., if 55 percent of men support a candidate and 44 percent of women support the same candidate, there is an 11-point gender gap).
Chart of July 2020 opinion survey on likelihood of voting by mail in November election, compared to 2016 [188] Postal voting in the United States has become increasingly common, with 25% of voters mailing their ballots in 2016 and 2018.
Democrats are encouraged by early-voting turnout among women in which they outpaced men by about 9 percentage points nationally, roughly the same margin as the 2020 election when Biden defeated Trump.
In specific states like North Carolina, Black male voters did break for Trump, with 1 in 5 Black men voting for him, which was twice his support in 2020, according to CBS exit polls.
A paradox of these election results is that while electing Trump, voters also largely supported abortion rights where the issue was on the ballot. Seven states voted to protect abortion rights.
The 2024 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. In the presidential election , former Republican President Donald Trump , seeking a non-consecutive second term, defeated the incumbent Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris .
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