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Election Lab

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Nov 21, 2025
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Were there 15 million extra votes for Joe Biden

Claims that there were “15 million extra votes for Joe Biden” refer to social-media charts comparing Biden’s 2020 popular vote (about 81 million) with later Democratic totals and pointing to a ~14–20 ...

Nov 28, 2025
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How did voter turnout in 2024 vary by race and ethnicity compared to 2020?

Voter turnout in 2024 was slightly lower overall than in 2020—about 64–65% of the voting‑eligible or voting‑age population cast ballots in 2024 versus roughly 66% in 2020—while turnout declines were u...

Nov 25, 2025
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Which US states have the most registered voters in 2024?

The most reliable national counts show the U.S. had well over 170–210 million people on voter rolls in 2024 depending on the dataset and measurement: the Census reports 73.6% of the voting‑age populat...

Nov 20, 2025

How did the 2024 eligible voter count compare to previous election years?

The 2024 eligible-voter (voting-eligible population or VEP) turnout rate fell from the 2020 peak but remained higher than most recent cycles: Ballotpedia reports overall turnout of eligible voters at ...

Jan 30, 2026

Which demographic groups were most responsible for the 2024 turnout decline compared with 2020, and what do surveys say about their reasons for not voting?

The from 2020 to 2024 was concentrated among younger voters, many voters of color (notably Hispanic voters), and irregular or less-educated voters — patterns analysts say tilted turnout away from the ...

Dec 3, 2025

What was the voter turnout rate in the 2024 U.S. presidential election and how did it compare to 2020?

The Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey reports that 65.3% of the voting‑age population voted in the 2024 presidential election, while multiple research groups report turnout measures that place...

Nov 30, 2025

How does 2020 registered voter count compare to 2016 and 2018?

The U.S. had a substantially larger registered-voter pool in 2020 than in recent elections: Census and peer analyses put the 2020 registered-voter total in the high‑hundreds of millions range (Census ...

Feb 7, 2026

How did the 2024 election compare to previous elections in terms of voter turnout and security?

The general election produced turnout near the historic highs of — roughly mid‑60s percent of eligible or voting‑age populations depending on the metric — and in many measures was the second‑highest p...

Jan 7, 2026

How does the 2024 popular vote compare to previous elections in turnout and margins?

The 2024 popular vote was narrowly won by Donald Trump, who received roughly 77 million votes (about 49.9%) to Kamala Harris’s roughly 75 million (about 48.4%), a margin of roughly 1.5 percentage poin...