Past Elections
Throughout the main sections of the website you'll find our data and analysis from elections between 2012-2020. On this page, look back on some of the analyses of previous elections dating back to CIRCLE's founding, which provide a useful context for trends in youth voting and political participation over the past two decades.
Note that the date in parenthesis corresponds to the publication date of the analysis, which due to data availability may sometimes have been months or years after the election. Also, clicking on a link will take you to our old website.
2010
- A Closer Look at African-American Turnout (July 2011)
- African-American College Students in 2008 and 2010 (June 2011)
- Non-College Youth Voting in the States (June 2011)
- 2010 College Student Voting: Part 1 and Part 2 (May and June 2011)
- Official Youth Turnout Rate in 2010 was 24% (April 2011)
- Reweighted Exit Poll Data Suggest Youth Turnout May Have Reached 22.8% (November 2010)
- Youth Voters in the 2010 Elections (November 2010)
- Revised CIRCLE Youth Turnout Estimate: 20.9% (November 2010)
- Youth Turnout About 20%, Comparable to Recent Midterm Years (November 2010)
- Young Adults Represented 11% of Voters, According to Final Exit Polls (November 2010)
- Young Adults (age 18-29) Represented 9-10% of All Voters, According to Preliminary Exit Poll Data. They Were 12% of Voters in 2006 (November 2010)
- Will Young Voters Turn Out for the 2010 Election? (September 2010)
- Young Voters in the Midterm Elections (June 2010)
2008
- 2008 Set a Record for First-Time Voters (May 2011)
- New Analysis of Young Voters in Battleground States Show Steep Decline in ’08 Democratic Advantage (December 2011)
- Voter Registration Among Young People in 2008 (November 2010)
- Voter Turnout Among Young Women and Men in the 2008 Presidential Election (October 2010)
- The Minority Youth Vote in the 2008 Presidential Election (October 2010)
- State-by-state Summaries of the 2008 Primaries (August 2010)
- New Census Data Confirm Increase in Youth Voter Turnout In 2008 Election (April 2009)
- Turnout by Education, Race and Gender and Other 2008 Youth Voting Statistics (November 2008)
- Youth Turnout Rate Rises to at Least 52% (November 2008)
- Preliminary CIRCLE Projection: Youth Voter Turnout Up (November 2008)
- National Exit Polls Report Youth Represented 18 Percent of Voters (November 2008)
- Young Voters in the 2008 Primaries/Caucuses (June 2008)
- 187,000 Young Voters Participate in Virginia Primaries; 137,000 in Maryland Primaries (February 2008)
- Super Tuesday Results (February 2008)
- The Youth Vote in the 2008 Early Contests (NH, MI, NV, SC, & FL) (February 2008)
- The Youth Vote in the 2008 Iowa Caucus (January 2008)
2006
- Young Urban Voters in the Midterm Election Year 2006 (July 2007)
- Quick Facts About Young Voters by Metropolitan Area: The Midterm Elections 2006 (July 2007)
- Quick Facts About Young Voters by State: The Midterm Election Year 2006 (June 2007)
- Youth Voter Turnout Increases in 2006 (June 2007)
- Young Voters in the 2006 Elections (December 2006)
- Quick Facts about Young Voters: 2006 (September 2006)
2004
- College Students in the 2004 Election (May 2007)
- Quick Facts on Young Voters: 2004 (May 2007)
- Special Report: The 2004 Youth Vote (November 2005)
- Youth Voter Turnout in the States during the 2004 Presidential and 2002 Midterm Elections (July 2005)
- The Youth Vote in 2004 (July 2005)
- CIRCLE/MTV September 2004 Pre-Election Survey of Young Americans