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The youth vote in the United States is the cohort of 18–24 year-olds as a voting demographic, [1] though some scholars define youth voting as voters under 30. [2] Many policy areas specifically affect the youth of the United States , such as education issues and the juvenile justice system ; [ 3 ] however, young people also care about issues ...
Disputes over youth suffrage have historically been linked to partisan efforts to restrict voting. The 1971 passage of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the US. Constitution, which gave young people the vote at age eighteen, spurred conflicts with regard to where students should vote. Those who opposed allowing students to vote in their college ...
The drive to lower the voting age from 21 to 18 grew across the country during the 1960's and was driven in part by the military draft held during the Vietnam War. The draft conscripted young men between the ages of 18 and 21 into the United States Armed Forces, primarily the U.S. Army, to serve in or support military combat operations in ...
President-elect Donald Trump claimed during a Dec. 16 press conference at his Mar-a-Lago residence that he won the youth vote by 34 points in the 2024 presidential election. Verdict: False Both ...
The youth vote in the United States is the cohort of 18–24 year-olds as a voting demographic, [3] though some scholars define youth voting as voters under 30. [4] Many policy areas specifically affect the youth of the United States, such as education issues and the juvenile justice system ; [ 5 ] however, young people also care about issues ...
A preliminary report estimates that 27% of voters between the ages 18 and 29 cast ballots in this year's midterm elections — the second-highest youth midterm turnout in decades.
If Trump, 77, stays close to Biden, 81, in this demographic all the way to Election Day on Nov. 5 it would be a major gain compared to 2020, when Biden won the youth vote by 24 points.
U.S. presidential election popular vote totals as a percentage of the total U.S. population. Note the surge in 1828 (extension of suffrage to non-property-owning white men), the drop from 1890 to 1910 (when Southern states disenfranchised most African Americans and many poor whites), and another surge in 1920 (extension of suffrage to women).