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Social media also played a key role, both because of its ability to reach a wide range of youth who might be disconnected from “traditional” political actors and organizations, and because of the growing connections between online and offline engagement. Many young people were also contacted by candidates and campaigns, particularly from Democrats who may have been hoping to capitalize on President Trump’s unpopularity among youth. Activism on gun control, the environment, and other issues of concern to youth were certainly pathways in 2018.

Multiple Entry Points: Young people need multiple avenues, outlets, and entry point to political engagement.

Indeed, our post-election poll found that young people who were participants or supporters of the gun violence prevention movement were more likely to be contacted by campaigns and more likely to vote. Our research has shown that those three elements-starting early, peer-to-peer outreach, and focusing on issues youth deeply care about-are key features of any successful youth engagement strategy.

Midterm elections 2018 registration#

Much of that was for tragic reasons: the February school shooting in Parkland, Florida added energy to student-led calls for school safety, and that explicitly focused on voter registration from the start and made gun rights an electoral issue. Ongoing and Early Outreach and Engagement: Young people’s political activism and action was in the spotlight since the beginnings of 2018.The release of this national turnout estimate is an ideal occasion to reiterate and reflect on some of the factors that made the 2018 election cycle different, and conducive to a remarkable rise in youth political participation:

It’s more than double the national youth turnout (calculated using the same method) from the 2014 midterms, when we estimate that only 13% of eligible youth cast a ballot-itself a much lower turnout rate than the 20% figure initially calculated through different methodology. The 28.2% national turnout rate is a more precise and reliable estimate that further confirms the increased youth participation in last November’s midterms.

This new estimate, based on voter file data aggregated by Catalist, comes close to our initial 31% estimate, which was based on exit poll data and calculated the day after the election. Our analyses found that, in every single state, young people’s turnout rate increased compared to 2014.īased on the data from those 42 states (which represent 94% of the American youth population) we estimate that, nationwide, 28.2% of young citizens (ages 18-29) voted in the 2018 midterm elections.

We recently released estimates of 2018 midterm youth voter turnout in all 42 states for which youth voting data are available in the voter files.