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New Poll Places Biden Leading in Two Key States to Win Presidential Election | Univision News Elections in the US 2020

Data collected by the US Elections Project at the University of Florida indicates that more than half of all those who voted in 2016 already voted, including early face-to-face voting, voting by mail, and those who turned out on Election Day 4 years ago. years.

This confirms once again the massive participation of the US electorate in elections that take place in an extremely atypical situation, that is, in the middle of a public health crisis and in a context of high political polarization.

The states where participation has been highest so far are Florida, North Carolina, Texas and California.

“The numbers are impressive,” wrote Michael P. McDonald, a political science professor at the University of Florida who compiles this data for the US Elections Project, and does a weekly analysis of early voting.

– Total early votes: 73,002,204

– Total votes by mail: 48,343,738
– Total votes in person: 24,658,466

Those numbers reflect the numbers collected through Wednesday morning.

In the 2016 election that Trump won, a total of 138,846,571 Americans voted. This means that half is just over 69.4 million.

Regarding the vote by political affiliation, the most recent numbers are these: (not all states keep these records, so the numbers do not match the total data)

– Votes registered as Democrats: 16,932,430 (47%)
– From Republicans: 10,407,298 (29.3%)
– From other parties: 215,723 (0.6%)
– No political affiliation 7,966,548 (22.4%)

Democrats47.7Republicans29.3Minor0.6No Party Affiliation22.4TOTAL100.0

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