Data collected by the US Elections Project at the University of Florida indicates that more than half of all those who voted in 2016 already voted, including early face-to-face voting, voting by mail, and those who turned out on Election Day 4 years ago. years.
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This confirms once again the massive participation of the US electorate in elections that take place in an extremely atypical situation, that is, in the middle of a public health crisis and in a context of high political polarization.
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The states where participation has been highest so far are Florida, North Carolina, Texas and California.
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“The numbers are impressive,” wrote Michael P. McDonald, a political science professor at the University of Florida who compiles this data for the US Elections Project, and does a weekly analysis of early voting.
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– Total early votes: 70,032,485
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– Total votes by mail: 46,874,461
– Total votes in person: 23,158,024
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Those numbers reflect the figures collected through Tuesday night.
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In the 2016 election that Trump won, a total of 138,846,571 Americans voted. This means that half is just over 69.4 million.
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Regarding the vote by political affiliation, the most recent numbers are these: (not all states keep these records, so the numbers do not match the total data)
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– Votes registered as Democrats: 16,157,073 (48%)
– From Republicans: 9,790,703 (29%)
– From other parties: 200,444 (0.6%)
– No political affiliation 7,488,414 (22.3%)
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