Vote Latino 2024: An estimated 36.2 million are eligible to vote this year, up from 32.3 million in 2020

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Vote Latino 2024: Latinos have grown at the second-fastest rate of any major racial and ethnic group in the U.S. electorate since the last presidential election. An estimated 36.2 million are eligible to vote this year, up from 32.3 million in 2020. This represents 50% of the total growth in eligible voters during this time.

Every year, about 1.4 million Hispanics in the U.S. become eligible to vote.

Although then-President Donald Trump made gains among Hispanics in 2020, a majority of Latino voters (59%) voted for current President Joe Biden that year, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of validated voters. In presidential elections, turnout rates among Hispanic Americans have typically trailed those of some other groups.

California is home to a quarter of all eligible Latino voters. Some 8.5 million out of the nation’s 33.7 million Hispanic eligible voters, or 25%, lived in California as of 2022

As the next presidential election approaches, here are five key facts about Hispanic eligible voters in the United States, based on our own projections for 2024, as well as Census Bureau data for previous years. (Eligible voters in this analysis are defined as citizens ages 18 and older residing in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Not all eligible voters are actually registered to vote.

FACTS:

1. Latinos are projected to account for 14.7% of all eligible voters in November 2024, a new high.

2. California is home to a quarter of all Hispanic eligible voters. Some 8.5 million out of the nation’s 33.7 million              Hispanic eligible voters, or 25%, lived in California as of 2022.

3. In New Mexico, 45% of all eligible voters are Latino, the highest share of any state.

4. A narrow majority of Latinos in the U.S. are eligible to vote. A little over half of all Latinos (53%) were eligible to           vote in 2022.

5. Hispanic eligible voters tend to be younger than eligible voters overall. Only 33% of Latino eligible voters are ages       50 and older, compared with 48% of all U.S. eligible voters.

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