Former Vice President Kamala Harris’s defeat in 2024 followed four years of falling voter registration figures for the Democratic Party.
A new analysis by The New York Times of voter registration data nationwide shows the staggering scope of the Democratic decline.
Thirty states, as well as Washington, D.C., allow voters to register with a political party. And the Democratic share of the electorate decreased in every one of those places between the 2020 and 2024 elections. At the same time, Republicans either expanded their advantage or closed the gap with Democrats in all of them.
Here are five takeaways from the Times analysis of voter registration data compiled by L2, a nonpartisan data firm.
Democrats are losing ground with new voters
Some of the Democratic decline resulted from voters’ switching parties. Some of it was because older voters died or because people did not vote for so long that they fell off the rolls.
But one of the more striking findings is the trend among newly registered voters away from the Democratic Party in the last six years.
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