Many of the states with high youth voter turnout in the 2022 midterm elections had strong policies that make it easier to register and vote.
New Jersey led the region and the nation in youth voter turnout in 2020; six states in the Northeast had turnout rates above 50%.
In half of the states ranked in the top 10 of our Youth Electoral Significance Index, at least a third of the population lives in rural areas.
In all 42 states for which data is available, the percentage of eligible young people who cast ballots was higher in 2018 than in 2014.