According to our estimates, close to 300,000 young people cast ballots in the 2013 Virginia gubernatorial race.

A new CIRCLE analysis explores the gender gaps in civic engagement, challenges to improving participation among young women, and implications for future work.

There is historically less outreach and engagement in midterm cycles than in presidential election years, which may lead to lower youth participation.

A new CIRCLE analysis explores young people's views on immigration reform and how immigrant youth participated in the election

Our analysis finds that civic education improves engagement and does not lead to partisanship or influence support for a candidate.

Pushback actions against voter ID laws and other legislation may have helped counteract their potentially suppressing effect on the youth vote.

As a group, states that strengthened their civic standards have higher youth turnout, though the biggest shift was between 2004 and 2008

We estimate that 66% of young people with at least some college experience voted in 2012, compared with 35% of those who have not attended college

In two new fact sheets we provide in-depth analysis of differences between younger and older voters, and between young voters of different identities.