WASHINGTON, DC-With certain demographics like young people, minorities and people with low income having low voter turnout historically, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released a report examining the States With the Best & Worst Representation on Election Day, to identify which states’ voting populations most closely resemble their actual electorates.
WalletHub compared the distribution of the 50 states’ voters to the distribution of their electorates by key demographic characteristics, including age, race and gender. We also analyzed how voters nationally reflect the U.S. electorate using those factors plus employment status, family income, educational attainment and marital status.
Voters’ Representation of Alabama’s Electorate:
- Overall Representation: 93.41%
- Racial Representation: 91.44%
- Age Representation: 90.89%
- Gender Representation: 97.90%
For the full report, please visit:
https://wallethub.com/edu/
“There are plenty of reasons people don’t vote, from not having time to feeling like it won’t count for anything. Unfortunately, when large segments of the population don’t vote, this can skew future economic and social policies to favor those who did vote, to the detriment of those who didn’t. States where the voting population most closely matches the electorate are more likely to elect representatives and institute policies that help all demographics.”
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“New Jersey is the state where voters most closely resemble the actual electorate, earning 96.6 points out of a possible 100 in WalletHub’s study. When it comes to race specifically, New Jersey is the state that has the closest match, scoring 94.8 out of 100 points for similarity. For example, New Jersey has the second-lowest discrepancy between the share of Asian residents who were eligible to vote in 2020 and those who actually voted, and the seventh-lowest difference for Hispanic residents.
The Garden State also has the second lowest discrepancy between the ages of the electorate and the ages of people who voted in the 2020 election, scoring 95.3 out of 100 for similarity. Finally, New Jersey has the fourth-lowest difference in the gender of voters who could vote and who actually voted. It scores 99.5 points out of 100 for similarity.”– Chip Lupo, WalletHub Analyst
Media Release/Diana Polk/WalletHub
