Top 10 Races
CIRCLE's exclusive rankings of where youth may swing elections can help inform strategies, investment, and outreach.
2020 Youth Electoral Significance Index
Young people can be a powerful force at the ballot box. Our Youth Electoral Significance Index (YESI) ranks the top 10 states and districts where the youth vote has the highest potential to swing the presidential, Senate, and House elections this November.
Vote by Mail
Lessons for 2020 from our exclusive analysis of youth voting by mail in past elections.
What vote by mail means for young voters
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated efforts to launch or scale up voting by mail across the country. As with all aspects of electoral participation, young people will need information and support.
Youth Data Tool
CIRCLE's exclusive online tool includes more than 40 indicators at the national, state, district, and county levels.
Youth Voting and Civic Engagement in America
To what extent are young people across the country participating in civic and political life, and what are the community conditions that help, hinder, and shape that engagement? Our comprehensive data tool allows you to better understand the landscape of youth civic engagement so you can help improve it.
Online Course
Join CIRCLE and the Civic Engagement Research Group for a free, six-week course.
Educating for Informed and Equitable Voting
Want to help your students navigate the 2020 elections? Register for this free 6-week online course from CIRCLE and the Civic Engagement Research Group that focuses on preparing k12 educators to teach about informed and equitable voting.
2020 Election
In the voting booth and beyond, young people are poised to shape the 2020 elections.
Impact at the Ballot Box
Our comprehensive research on the impact of young voters in 2020 is tracking their participation in primaries, their support of presidential candidates, and their views on the state of American democracy.
Latest Research
Young Women's Political Engagement in Elections and Beyond
Data from CIRCLE polling shows that young women voted at higher rates than men in 2018, are more likely to support social movements and engage in activism, and feel prepared to participate in civic life.
Young People and Vote By Mail: Lessons for 2020
Our analysis of which youth voted by mail in 2012 and 2016, how they did it, and why, can offer insights to those looking to expand the practice in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
CIRCLE and OYUnited: Improving Voter Access through Research-Fueled Action
Lessons from our initiative helping young leaders connect with election administrators to broaden youth voting.
The Civic and Political Attitudes of Young White Men
CIRCLE research from the past two election cycles reveals that young White men vote differently and participate in civic activism at lower rates than their peers.
Young People of Color Shaped Key Super Tuesday Primaries
In four large, diverse states, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders performed very differently in counties with high proportions of Black youth and in those with high Latino youth.
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28%
of young people voted in 2018, the highest midterm turnout in decades. It's not high enough.
Use Our Work to Inform Yours
Everyone has a role to play in the effort to promote greater and more equitable youth civic engagement. Whether you're an educator, policymaker, journalist, organizational leader, or a young person yourself, use our research to identify where you can make a difference and to drive conversations and initiatives in your community.
28%
of young people voted in 2018, the highest midterm turnout in decades. It's not high enough.
Take Action
Use Our Work to Inform Yours
Everyone has a role to play in the effort to promote greater and more equitable youth civic engagement. Whether you're an educator, policymaker, journalist, organizational leader, or a young person yourself, use our research to identify where you can make a difference and to drive conversations and initiatives in your community.Home Page Take Action
28%
of young people voted in 2018, the highest midterm turnout in decades. It's not high enough.
Use Our Work to Inform Yours
Everyone has a role to play in the effort to promote greater and more equitable youth civic engagement. Whether you're an educator, policymaker, journalist, organizational leader, or a young person yourself, use our research to identify where you can make a difference and to drive conversations and initiatives in your community.
CIRCLE in the News
Rock the Vote launches virtual summer initiative to register 200,000 voters
CNN
CIRCLE is part of this coalition that will work to register young people to vote in the 2020 election.
Election 2020: 11 Ways to Engage Students From Now Until November
The New York Times
This New York Times roundup of ideas and resources for politically engaging youth links to CIRCLE's Rep US project and our analysis of young people volunteering on campaigns.
Activists warn mail-in voting needed but could hurt some voters if poorly implemented
CBS News
This reporting cites CIRCLE data on whether young people feel confident they know how to receive and fill out an absentee ballot.