Record-breaking numbers: How Americans showed up to vote in battleground states
Latest data shows 2024s voter turnout nearly matched 2020s all-time high. Most swing-states broke their previous records while early-voting numbers stayed strong across the country
The 2024 presidential race brought out voters in near-historic numbers making it the second-highest turnout in a hundred years (right behind 2020s record)
Since the 80s‚ eleven states hit new participation records this time around. Most swing-states saw more voters than ever before — except for North Carolina where numbers dropped a bit. Wisconsin voters came out strong: they beat their 04 record by one percent‚ with three-quarters of eligible folks casting ballots. Michigan and Arizona both went up two percent from last time
Early-voting stayed popular this year; lots of people used mail-in ballots or voted early in-person. Michigan actually had more early voters than during covid times; other states came real close to their 2020 numbers
- 2008: Obama vs McCain
- 1960: Kennedy vs Nixon
- 1908: Taft vs Bryan
The numbers (based on voting-age population) show this elections turnout beats all these past big races. The data comes from AP counts where most votes are in; for other places they used expected totals. The voting info comes from different sources: past numbers from U-Florida Election Lab‚ 2020 stats from Leips Atlas‚ and current counts from Associated Press
