Historical Presidential Voter Turnout Numbers
The NYTimes mentioned that if voter turnout were to hit 64% this election, it would be the highest voter turnout since the 65.7% we had in the election of 1908 (go Taft!). This got me curious about historical voter turnout levels and led me to this handy data repository, which I turned into an even handier bar graph:
click to big-ify
Apparently I’m very interested in voter turnout numbers, as this is not the first such chart that I have posted.
November 2nd, 2008 at 9:54 am
I’m very glad you posted it. (I’m interested in these things too.)
– Maggie Carneiro
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July 10th, 2009 at 11:24 am
This doesn’t look right to me. VAP includes minorities and women and they were not allowed to vote until the 1920’s in the case of women and 1965 in the case of minorities. I think that this should be Voting Eligible Population.
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