Pew Research Center now uses as the last birth year for Millennials in our work. President Michael Dimock explains why. About Pew Research Center Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research.
Pew Research Center does not take policy positions. It is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Newsletters Donate My Account. Research Topics. Wide gender gap in partisanship As has been the case for more than two decades of Pew Research Center surveys, women are significantly more likely than men to associate with the Democratic Party.
Black, Hispanic and Asian voters remain overwhelmingly Democratic There are sizable and long-standing racial and ethnic differences in partisan affiliation, and they have shifted only modestly in recent years. A gender gap in partisan affiliation and leaning is seen across racial and ethnic groups.
Educational gap in partisan orientation continues to grow Higher educational attainment is increasingly associated with Democratic Party affiliation and leaning. A wide — and growing — generational divide in partisanship The generational gap in partisanship is now more pronounced than in the past, and this echoes the widening generational gaps seen in many political values and preferences. Urban voters grow more Democratic, rural voters more Republican Voters in urban counties have long aligned more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party, and this Democratic advantage has grown over time.
Next: 2. Page 1 You are reading page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5. In Changing U. Follow Us. Gen Xers and Baby Boomers have been relatively split in their partisan leanings for much of the past 24 years, though the Democratic Party briefly held a fairly wide advantage among both groups between and Among members of the Silent Generation, which includes voters who are today between the ages of 71 and 88, the Republican Party has opened a wide advantage in leaned party affiliation over the past several years.
Millennials now match Baby Boomers as the generation that represents the largest number of eligible voters in the country. While Millennials are a large and diverse cohort, there continues to be no sign of differences in partisanship among younger and older member of the generation.
Among all older generations, the GOP has a significant advantage in leaned party affiliation among white voters, including a point edge among white voters in the Silent generation. Among non-white voters, the Democratic Party holds a wide advantage in leaned party affiliation and there is little difference in patterns across generations. Roughly seven-in-ten non-white voters in each generation identify as Democrats or lean Democratic.
White evangelical Protestants — long a solidly Republican group — have become even more likely to identify with the Republican Party in recent years. The share affiliating with the GOP is up 12 points since , including a five-point uptick since The partisan leanings of white mainline Protestants today are similar to those of white voters overall. Black Protestants remain solidly Democratic in their partisan orientation and there has been little change in their affiliation over the past few decades.
The Democratic Party has traditionally enjoyed an advantaged in leaned party affiliation among all Catholics, but the GOP has made gains in recent years: marked the first time in about two decades that Catholics were no more likely to affiliate with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.
White Catholics are 17 points more likely to affiliate with the GOP than they were in and eight points more likely than there were in The share of Mormons identifying as Republican has edged down slightly in the last four years. The share of Jews who identify as Democrats or lean Democratic has grown slightly over the past few years, though the balance of leaned party affiliation among Jewish voters is about the same as it was in Religiously unaffiliated voters continue to be overwhelmingly Democratic in their orientation.
In times of uncertainty, good decisions demand good data. Please support our research with a financial contribution. The survey was conducted by phone from January-March. The 9 percentage point difference is the Democrats' largest advantage since the fourth quarter of , according to the report.
Democrats have typically held a 4 to 6 point advantage over Republicans. Shortly before the first quarter of the year, the gap in affiliation was virtually nonexistent before Democrats' advantage widened by 9 points. The rise correlates with the decline in Republican Party identification, just as in , when the GOP saw a drop in the popularity during the government shutdown over the Affordable Care Act. Party identification is asked on every survey Gallup conducts, according to senior editor Jeff Jones, who also authored the report.
Visit this table to see approximate margins of error for a group of a given size. For full question wording, see the survey questionnaire. Sample sizes and margins of error vary from subgroup to subgroup, from year to year and from state to state.
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