Voter turnout

Voter turnout is the number of votes cast for the highest office on a given ballot, usually expressed as a percentage of the total number of voters who were eligible to vote.

A list of the voter turnout in presidential elections shows that it peaked in the very close election of 1876, and was also quite high in 1840 and 1860.

Voter turnout declined overall in 2022 from 2018, but ballot harvesting and other paid get-out-the-vote efforts by Dems among college-educated young voters remained high to the benefit of the Democrat Party.

Voter turnout in 2020

As Dems perfected their get-out-the-vote efforts with lavish funding and ballot harvesting, the voter turnout in the 2020 presidential election was a 50-year high.

Republican get-out-the-vote efforts were not nearly as strong as the Dems, and rural voter turnout was a below-average 65% that year. Due to inadequate work by the Republican Party in rural areas, one pro-Trump county in Georgia had only 19% turnout in 2020 - the lowest in the nation.

Wisconsin

Voter turnout in the 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin was 83% in Milwaukee County, compared with only 73% statewide including all the rural counties.

"Missing" votes in 2024

Roughly 3.3 million to 4.4 million fewer total votes were cast nationally for president in the 2024 election compared with 2020, despite how the races and candidates were very similar in those two races. This has cast doubt on the legitimacy of the supposedly high voter turnout in 2020.