Voter turnout for the 2022 U.S. congressional elections was the second highest for a nonpresidential election year since 2000.





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*May 2, 2023* ? Voter turnout for the 2022 U.S. congressional elections was the second highest for a nonpresidential election year since 2000, with 52.2% of the citizen voting-age population participating. And registration rates were the highest for a midterm election since 2000, with 69.1% of the citizen voting-age population registered to vote, up 2.2 percentage points from 66.9% in 2018, according to Current Population Survey (CPS) data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.

For the 2022 election, the survey found that nearly one-third (31.8%) of all voters cast ballots by mail, up from 23.1% in 2018. Almost half (47.1%) voted before Election Day, up from 37.8% in 2018. ?

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*?*High Registration and Early Voting in 2022 Midterm Elections

More than half of the nation?s citizen, voting-age population (CVAP) voted in 2022 ? the second highest turnout for a congressional election in two decades.

The 52.2% voter turnout was just 1.2 percentage points lower than in 2018 (53.4%) and significantly higher than in 2014 (41.9%) and in 2010 (45.5%).

Despite lower turnout in 2022 than in 2018, the share of voting-age citizens who were registered to vote was 69.1% ? the highest registration rate in a midterm election since at least 2002.

As a result, turnout as a share of those registered to vote in 2022 was down 4.4 percentage points from 2018.

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