How did age impact voting rates in the 2024 presidential election?

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Written By Jonathan Milner

Critical Analysis

Find answers to the following questions using the visual above, any links below, your big brain, and your knowledge of American government and politics:

  1. According to the data from the visual above, about what percent of voters age 18-24 voted in the 2024 election?

  2. According to the data from the visual above, what age group had the highest voter turnout rate in 2024?

  3. According to the data from the visual above, what was the overall adult voter turnout rate in 2024?

  4. According to the data from the visual above, describe how age effects voter turnout rates.

  5. Why do you think old people outvote young people by so much?

  6. Make a claim about what would happen if voting rates based on age were flipped (i.e., the older people voted less; and younger people voted more).

  7. A third of U.S. states allow 17-year-olds to vote in primary elections if they will be 18 by the time of the general election. If people under 18 were allowed to vote nationwide, what do you predict their voting rate would be?

  8. Based on the visuals above or below*, draw one conclusion about the impact of age on voting.

  9. Based on the data in the visual below* about what age and voting in 2024, make a claim about what will happen in the 2026 midterm election.

  10. This year The U.K. will lower its voting age to 16. About 90% of countries and territories around the world have a voting age of 18 or higher, according to UNICEF. The U.K. joins a small but growing list of those that have reduced it to 16 and/or 17, including Austria, Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, Greece and Indonesia. In 1971 the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age to 18. Do you think the U.S. should follow the U.K. and lower its voting age?

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Learning Extension

2024 Exit Polls

 
 

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