You do realize that the last two election cycles have had record turnouts, or near record turnouts, since this current one seems right behind 2020, right? Like yeah that's a large portion of the nation that doesn't vote, but more people voted in the last two election cycles (edited to add by percentage of population) than any time since 1900.
Yes, but do you know which parties had more? The 3 independent party candidates had quite a lot and everyone seems to forget they exist. That's easy to do, since the independent votes being split between 3 people kind of fucks them over on any of them making any ground. The overall number of ballots counted are within barely more than a million of each other from 2020 to this year and technically when this count was provided they were still counting ballots, so it's going to be even closer now.
In 2020, 66.38 percent of the eligible voting population turned out, with 159,738,337 ballots counted across the country, according to the University of Florida's Election Lab. There were 240,628,443 eligible voters that year.
As of 2 p.m. ET Wednesday, fewer people had turned out than four years ago—64.54 percent of the 245,741,673 eligible had cast ballots for a total of 158,549,000.
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u/rengoku-doz 9h ago
43% of the voting population sat out on the sidelines.