Who can vote? How did they vote last time? US presidential election statistics

More than 210 million US citizens are eligible to vote in this year’s presidential election. Here’s a look at the United States in statistics.

Reuters/Brian Snyder

• Overall participation in 2008: 63.3 per cent
• Number of voters in 2008: 131 million

Percentage of each racial/ethnic group that voted in 2008

Percentage of early voting

How different groups voted in 2008 presidential election between Barack Obama and John McCain
(Percentage of total electorate in brackets)
 

 
Source: AFP