Between 22 and 24 million young Americans ages 18—29 voted, resulting in an estimated youth voter turnout the percentage of eligible voters who actually cast a vote of between This is an increase of 1 to 6 percentage points over the estimated youth turnout in , and an increase of between 8 and 13 percentage points over the turnout in the election. The all-time highest youth turnout was Sixty-six percent of young voters cast their ballot for Barack Obama, the largest-ever showing for a presidential candidate in this age group.
Young people preferred Obama to John McCain by a two-to-one ratio, according to a survey of young voters conducted by Declare Yourself, a nonpartisan initiative dedicated to youth voters, and Luntz Maslansky Strategic Research, a market research company, and released Nov. Similar data for Carnegie Mellon or other universities in the state of Pennsylvania is not yet available. Johansson pointed to a number of factors that may have led to the increase in young voter turnout.
Many youth were dissatisfied with the current administration, she said, and caught onto the idea of change. In addition, young people gravitated toward common issues, such as the economy and climate change, that made it easy to come together.
Within that gender shift, there were particularly stark differences by educational attainment. At the same time, the share of young White male voters has gone up regardless of educational attainment, but the rate of increase also appears to be slightly greater for men with college degrees.
There are multiple possible explanations for these changes. On another note, during the primaries, 25 to year-olds were more supportive of Secretary Clinton, and targeted outreach may have focused more heavily on this older segment of youth who are more likely to have already completed college. The electoral overrepresentation of youth with higher levels of formal education has been an enduring pattern.
This year, we recorded the lowest share of youth without any college experience in the past four elections, and a nearly point drop from These variables are subject to change in the hours and days after an election. Also, in some past years, the national exit polls conducted by Edison Research have adjusted their statistics in the first few days after an election.
Close Menu Search Open Search. Breadcrumb Home latest research election night 24 million youth voted most rejected trump. We estimate that half of young people voted in the election, and exit polls show they strongly preferred Hillary Clinton. Youth Shaped the Race in Key States Our analysis of margin of victory in relation to estimated youth turnout and choice revealed that young voters played an important role in keeping some key races very close.
Obama owes his victory in the Iowa primary to young voters, he says. That increase in turnout and the significant margin that he had over Hillary really kind of set his campaign in motion. In , John Kerry won the youth vote by 9 points, says Della Volpe. Through a steady stream of texts and Twitters, experts agree Obama has managed to excite young voters by meeting them where they live — online.
He defines Millennials as ages 18 to The 'Barney' generation Hais and Winograd share a unique opinion on why this group of young people seem to be so bent on group unity: We're now seeing the first votes cast by the "Barney" generation.
Countless afternoons during their childhood, millions of Millennials sat down to watch a big purple dinosaur teach problem-solving to a diverse cast. Partly because of that "I love you, you love me" mindset, Hais believes that being a young Republican might not be as lonely of an existence as it sounds. But in the last several months, it hasn't felt that way. Krogh, the president of the New York Young Republicans, says her organization has seen its members surge in just the last couple weeks, with 75 more young voters joining in the last days before the election.
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