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46 HISPANIC NETWORK MAGAZINE
HISPANICS IN GOVERNMENT
The Latino Electorate in 2010: More Voters, More Non-Voters
by Mark Hugo Lopez, Associate Director, Pew Hispanic Center
ore than 6.6 million Latinos voted in last year’s election—a record for a midterm—according to an analysis of new Census Bureau data by the Pew His- panic Center, a project of the Pew Re- search Center. Latinos also were a larger share of the electorate in 2010 than in any previous midterm election, representing 6.9% of all voters, up from 5.8% in 2006. Rapid population growth has helped
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fuel Latinos’ increasing electoral partici- pation. According to the Census Bureau, 50.5 million Hispanics were counted by the 2010 Census, up from 35.3 million in 2000. Over the same decade, the number of Latino eligible voters—adults who are U.S. citizens—also increased, from 13.2 million in 2000 to 21.3 million in 2010. Although more Latinos than ever are participating
in the nation’s elections,
their representation among the electorate remains below their representation in the general population. In 2010, 16.3% of the nation’s population was Latino, but only 10.1% of eligible voters and fewer than 7% of voters who turned out were Latino. This gap is driven by two demographic
factors: youth and non-citizenship. More than one third of Latinos (34.9%) are younger than the voting age of 18. An ad- ditional 22.4% are of voting age, but are not U.S. citizens. As a result, the share of the Latino population eligible to vote is smaller than it is among any other group. Just 42.7% of the nation’s Latino popula- tion is eligible to vote, while more than three-in-four (77.7%) of whites, two- thirds of blacks (67.2%) and more than half of Asians (52.8%) are eligible to vote.
Even among eligible voters, Latino participation rates lag behind
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other groups. Only 31.2% of Latino eli- gible voters said they voted in 2010, while nearly half (48.6%) of white eligi- ble voters and 44.0% of black eligible voters said the same.
This gap in voter participation be- tween Latinos and other groups is partly due to the large number of Latino eligi- ble voters who are under 30. In 2010, 31.3% of Latino eligible voters were ages 18 to 29, while 19.2% of white, 25.6% of black and 20.7% of Asian eli- gible
voters were under 30. Among
young Latino eligible voters, just 17.6% voted. In contrast, among Latino eligible voters ages 30 and older, the voter turn- out rate was higher, at 37.4%. The gap in voter participation be-
tween Latinos and others is also partly due to fast growth in the number of Lati- nos who do not vote but are eligible to do so. Between 2006 and 2010 the number of Latino voters increased by 18.8%, but the number of Latino non-voters in- creased more rapidly, by 25.0%. Differences in voter turnout rates ex- ist among Latino eligible voters. In 2010, Latino college graduates had the highest voter turnout rate (50.3%) among Latino eligible voters, while young Latinos ages 18 to 29 had the lowest (17.6%). Differ- ences in participation rates also exist by country of origin. Nearly half (49.3%) of Cuban origin
Latinos voted in 2010
compared with 29.6% of Puerto Rican origin Latinos and 28.7% of Mexican origin Latinos. Similarly, a greater share of naturalized foreign-born Latinos than native born Latinos voted - 36.6% versus 29.2%.
Source: Pew Hispanic Center
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