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Election & voting statistics and sources for Texas and U.S.
Voting Statistics by Race and Ethnicity
Why can't I get exact percentages on how different races / ethnicities voted?
Race and ethnicity is not specified when a person registers to vote so you cannot get exact statistics from the actual vote count. Estimates are compiled from various exit polls and surveys.
You can see the questions asked to register on a sample Texas Voter registration form here: Texas Voter Registration Form
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- National Exit Polls: How Different Groups Voted (2020)New York TImes (subscription)
- How Biden won the 2020 election: Exit poll analysisCBS 11/7/2020
- CNN Politics: Election 2016Exit poll demographic data (age, gender, education, income, race/ethnicity) broken down by state.
- Edison ResearchBehind the numbers: the 2016 national election exit poll
- U S Census Bureau - Voting and RegistrationIn election years, the Current Population Survey collects reported data on voting and registration, and later distributes statistics by turnout, age, race and origin.
- NPR: Election 2016: By StateDoes not give percentage of how each race voted for a particular candidate but rather sorts results by the percentage of a particular race / ethnicity in each county. You can compare how a predominantly white county voted as compared to a county with a higher percentage of another race.
- Roper Center Polling Data1976-2016 See "Group Voting"
Estimates of race / ethnicity counts come from exit polls and surveys - 2016:
- CQ Voting and Elections Collection This link opens in a new windowA database of elections data, authoritative analyses, concise explanations, and historical materials to help researchers investigate and understand voting and elections in America from 1789-present.
- When Did Black Americans Start Voting So Heavily Democratic?Washington Post July 7, 2015
- 50 Years of the Voting Rights Act: The State of Race in PoliticsJoint Center for Political and Economic Studies
2019 - Equis: 2020 Post MortemHispanic shift toward the Republican Party in the 2020 election
- Equis Research"At Equis Research, we are helping move past the idea of the Latinx community as a monolith, and toward a more sophisticated understanding of the experiences."
2020 and 2022 Texas Election
- Texas Midterm Election 2022Includes estimate of votes by race and ethnicity in 2020 election.
NBC News - Texas Exit Polls: How Different Groups Voted (New York Times subscription)Estimates from exit polls conducted by Edison Research for the National Election Pool
- Exit poll results and analysis from Texas - Election 2020 (subscription)-Washington Post (subscription)
Articles on 2016 Election
- Donald Trump Did Not win 34% of Latino vote in TexasWashington Post. December 2, 2016
- What Happened on Election DayLatino Vote and Exit Polls. New York Times