Since Americans awakened Wednesday afternoon to find that the winner of this nail-biter of a election may not be known for daysthey might take solace in a minumum of one truth: The 2020 election attracted the maximum voter turnout in over a century.
According to the nonpartisan website that the U.S. Elections Project, conducted by University of Florida professor Michael McDonald, a few 160 million votes have been cast at the election which has gap President Trump from the Democratic nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden. That equates to some turnout rate of 66.9percent of qualified voters, representing the large stakes many Republicans saw at the vote.
At Wednesday afternoon, Biden had won 238 of the 270 Electoral College votes that a candidate should claim success, to Trump’s 213,” according to the Associated Press. Delegate-rich battleground states like Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania were counting votes.
The record amount of votes contrasts to a 139 million throw 2016, when Trump appeared successful despite losing the popular vote into Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. Four decades back, a few 60.1percent of respondents turned out.
The maximum turnout speed before 2020 was 1900, as it struck 73.7percent. However, as many had been quick to say in reaction to McDonald’therefore tweet, prices from this age aren’t really comparable to now. Girls didn’t have the right to vote {} instance, also it was well ahead of the 1965 Voting Rights Act sought to fight collapse of Black Americans’ votes.
