Unpublished Paper
Iowa Voting Series, Paper 7: An Examination of Iowa Voter Distribution in Elections Since 1982
Iowa Voting Series
(2023)
Abstract
This is the seventh paper in a series examining aspects of voting in Iowa. In the second through fifth papers in this series I examined Iowa’s turnout statistics in midterm and presidential elections since 1982 in various combinations of party, sex, and age group. For the most part, these papers only examined the turnout percentages within each group or subgroup. In the sixth paper I changed focus and examined turnout in terms of absentee and early voting. In doing so I looked at the data in terms of turnout percentages for the subgroups, but also in terms of the distributions of subgroups among the voters for a particular election. Looking at voter distributions provided additional information regarding absentee voting, so in this paper I am returning to the prior analyses for an examination of the group and subgroup distributions. The results show that Republicans had a larger proportion of the voters in 14 of the 21 elections examined. Women were consistently more numerous in all 21 elections. Among the five indicated age groups, the 18-24 and 25-34 groups had the smallest proportions. For the three older groups (35-49,-50-64, and 65 & Over) the pattern was more complex, but driven largely by underlying changes in voter registration numbers. Results for combinations of sex, age group, and party are also examined.
Keywords
- Iowa,
- voting,
- voter turnout
Disciplines
Publication Date
May 29, 2023
Citation Information
Timothy M. Hagle. "Iowa Voting Series, Paper 7: An Examination of Iowa Voter Distribution in Elections Since 1982" Iowa Voting Series (2023) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/timothy_hagle/90/
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