Voters & Voting

We identified 261 U.S. jurisdictions that have adopted some voting method other than the winner-take-all system most American voters know.

Around two-thirds of adults in Germany, France and the UK say it is important for their national government to make voting compulsory.

Among Republicans, support has declined for allowing early or absentee voting without an excuse and for automatically registering all eligible citizens to vote.

An 85% majority of Democrats say everything possible should be done to make voting easy; 28% of Republicans say this.

At least 76 of the voting members of the 117th Congress are foreign born or have at least one parent born in another country.

White eligible voters were somewhat more likely to say they were contacted than Black, Hispanic or English-speaking Asian eligible voters.

Americans voted in record numbers in last year’s presidential election, casting nearly 158.4 million ballots.

Social media activity by members of Congress changed in notable ways following the rioting at the Capitol by supporters of President Trump.

68% of the public does not want Donald Trump to remain a major political figure in the future.

Black voters were more likely to say the 2020 election was administered very well both nationally and locally.