Voters & Voting

Amid shifts in demographics and partisan allegiances, registered voters are now evenly split between the Democratic Party and the GOP.

Amid growing discontent with the state of democracy globally, we asked over 30,000 people what changes would make their democracy work better.

Donald Trump’s likely clinching of the GOP nomination came 244 days before Election Day, a day short of John McCain in 2008.

A 24-country survey finds a median of 59% are dissatisfied with how their democracy is functioning, and 74% think elected officials don’t care what people like them think.

47% of Americans favor banning groups from collecting completed ballots to return to official voting centers, while 50% oppose this. The public is also divided over removing people from voter registration lists if they have not voted recently or confirmed their registration, with slightly more opposing this (55%) than supporting it (44%).

An estimated 36.2 million Hispanics are eligible to vote this year, up from 32.3 million in 2020.

The number of Black eligible voters in the United States is projected to reach 34.4 million in November 2024 after several years of modest growth.

Asian Americans have been the fastest-growing group of eligible voters in the United States over roughly the past two decades and since 2020.

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72% of U.S. adults say that there should be limits on the amount of money individuals and organizations can spend on political campaigns.