Voting Turnout in Minnesota’s 3rd District and Colorado’s 2nd District Highest at 70%

Demographic Characteristics of the Citizen Voting-age Population of Congressional Districts

Education

• New York’s 12th District has the highest percentage (71.0%) of voting-age citizens with a bachelor’s degree or more.
• In contrast, a quarter of eligible voters in New York’s 15th, California’s 40th and Texas’ 29th districts lack a high school diploma.
• In most instances, districts where a large proportion of voting-age citizens lacked a high school diploma had the lowest voter turnout in 2018.

Men and Women

Most districts, about 4 in 5, have more citizen voting-age women than men, according to the American Community Survey.

New York’s 8th District has the highest percentage (56.5%) of citizen voting-age women in the country. In contrast, California’s 21st and 51st districts and Alaska’s at-large district have among the lowest percentages (about 47%) of women. In general, women are more likely than men to register and vote.

Race and Hispanic Origin

• In Hawaii’s 1st District, about half of the voting-age citizens are Asian, the highest percentage in the country.
• Hawaii’s 2nd District has 12.1% Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islanders – the highest percentage in the country.
• Hispanics made up more than half of voting-age citizens in 24 congressional districts: Arizona (3rd), California (21st, 29th, 32nd, 35th, 38th, 40th, 41st, 44th, 46th and 51st), Florida (25th, 26th and 27th), Illinois (4th), New York (15th) and Texas (15th, 16th, 20th, 23rd, 28th, 29th, 34th, and 35th).

Across these heavily Hispanic districts, voting rates in 2018 ranged from 54.4% to 31.3%.

About the Data

This Census Bureau infographic shows all congressional districts for 2018. It combines the counts of votes cast for each congressional race, as collected by state election offices and reported nationally by the Office of the Clerk U.S. House of Representatives, with estimates of the citizen voting-age population from the 2018 American Community Survey.

Voting rates are calculated by using the number of administratively counted ballots divided by the survey estimate of the citizen voting-age population.

Four congressional districts in Florida (10th, 14th, 21st and 24th) and one in North Carolina (9th) do not have computed voting rates because the states did not report vote totals for these districts. Florida state law prohibits candidates without an opponent from having their name printed on the ballot, and North Carolina’s Board of Elections ordered a new election for the 9th District in February 2019.

Jennifer Cheeseman Day is a demographer in the Census Bureau’s Communication Directorate.

Thom File is a senior sociologist in the Social, Economic and Housing Statistics Division.

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