Congressional Member’s Report Card

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VOTING AGE POPULATION TURNOUT

  • Notably in the United States – it’s largely up to individual voters to register themselves. U.S. is unusual in that voter registration is not the job of a single national agency, but of individual states, counties and cities. That means the rules can vary considerably depending on where a would-be voter lives.

  • U.S. is also unusual in that voter registration is not the job of a single national agency, but of individual states, counties and cities. It also means there’s no single, authoritative source for how many people are registered to vote in the U.S. 

  • The total voting-age population is (66.7%) in U.S. while 72.7% of citizens are of voting age. By comparison, (91.8%) of the UK’s voting-age population was registered to vote in that country’s parliamentary election; the equivalent rates were (89.1%) in Canada, (94.1%) in New Zealand and (90.7%) in Germany for those countries’ most recent national elections.
  • United States trails many of its peers in the developed world in voting-age population turnout. In fact, when comparing turnout among the voting-age population in the 2020 presidential election against recent national elections in 49 other countries, the U.S. ranks 31st – between Colombia (62.5%) and Greece (63.5%).

OECD RANKING OF VOTING AGE POPULATION TURNOUT

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OECD RANKING OF REGISTERED VOTERS

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