Americans are heading to the polls to choose between Democrats Kamala Harris and Tim Walz and Republicans Donald Trump and J.D. Vance for the White House. , the country remains deeply divided along political lines. Red states get redder, blue states get bluer, and politics get more heated.
USA TODAY provides insight into how your region has changed racially, ethnically, politically and economically since 2020 to better understand your county and community We have compiled important data. This resource answers important questions like how your county voted last time. Three elections and whether your district is a political outlier. It also provides important information about early voting and absentee voting, which are becoming increasingly popular among voters. One-third of voters will vote by mail in the 2022 election.
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Joe Biden narrowly won the 2020 presidential election in key battleground states, defeating Trump by less than 1 percentage point in Georgia, Arizona, and Wisconsin. (However, the national vote share was 51% for Biden and 47% for Trump.)
Current polls suggest this election could be similarly close, depending on thousands of votes in key areas.
Nearly 160 million people voted in the 2020 general election, representing two-thirds of the eligible voting population. The 2022 Congressional elections, which were held in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade, had a turnout of 52.2%, the second highest turnout for a midterm election since 2000.
According to U.S. Census Bureau data, of the 233.5 million Americans of voting age, 161.4 million were registered voters as of November 2022, of whom 23.2% were under 35 and 26.6% were 65. That was it.
Although they make up a similar-sized portion of the overall electorate, only 35% of young people voted in 2022, compared to 67% of older adults.
Past voting patterns reveal deepening partisan divides, with red areas becoming redder and blue areas becoming bluer. The divide intensified along geographic lines, as Mr. Trump improved margins in rural areas while Mr. Biden widened Hillary Clinton’s margins in urban areas.
A USA TODAY analysis of voting patterns in 3,113 counties found that three-quarters of counties went red or blue in the 2020 presidential election compared to Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection, while 40 states went red or blue. Political trends have strengthened over the 2012 elections. half of their county. Only a handful of counties turned against it.
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