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The November 3 elections saw a record voter turnout of 66.9 percent.
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The 2020 US presidential election has seen the highest voter turnout in 120 years, said a leading election expert.
According to preliminary estimates from the US Elections Project, a non-partisan site that tracks voting, an estimated 239 million people were eligible to vote this year, of which nearly 160 million exercised their franchise rights. The figure is likely to be updated in the coming weeks.
The November 3 election saw a record voter turnout of 66.9 percent, which is the highest turnout rate since 1900. The 1900 election saw a 73.7 percent turnout, he said.
“The 2020 presidential election had the highest turnout rate in 120 years. There is still a lot of guesswork about pending ballots that need to be counted,” said Michael P. McDonald, associate professor of political science at the University of Florida, who runs the US Election Project.
In 2016, the US had 56% voter turnout, while in 2008 it was 58%.
Minnesota and Maine, according to the U.S. Election Project, this year had the highest turnout at 79.2 percent each, followed by Iowa with 78.6 percent.
Maine and Iowa were won by President Donald Trump and Minnesota by his Democratic rival Joe Biden.
Other states that obtained more than 70% voter turnout were Colorado (77.1%), Connecticut (71.1%), Delaware (70.8%), Florida (72.9%), Maryland (72.2% ), Massachusetts (73.4%) percent), Michigan (73.5 percent), and Montana (72.3 percent).
Arkansas posted the lowest turnout of 56.1 percent, according to preliminary estimates.
Time magazine said the above-average voter turnout rate in 2020 is noteworthy, as the United States generally has some of the worst turnout rates in the world.
In a Pew Research ranking of voter turnout in the most recent national elections, the US ranks 30th out of 35 nations.
The highest voter turnout since 120 was reflected in high vote support for both Biden and Trump. As of Thursday afternoon, Biden had received more than 72 million votes, eight million more than Hillary Clinton did in 2016.
So far, Trump has garnered more than 68.5 million votes, which is the highest Republican turnout.
According to Pew, as of 2019, non-Hispanic white Americans at 69 percent represent the largest proportion of registered voters in the U.S. Hispanic and black registered voters each account for 11 percent, while those of others Racial or ethnic origins account for the remaining eight percent.
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