Almost half of voters in last year’s midterms cast their ballots before Election Day.
New data from the U.S Census Bureau reveals that 47.1 percent of midterm voters voted before Election Day, up nearly 10 percentage points from the 37.8 percent observed during the 2018 midterms.
Roughly one-third of voters, or 31.8 percent, cast their vote by mail, a jump from 23.1 percent in 2018.
Just over half of the voting-age population, or 52.2 percent, participated in the election, accounting for the second-highest voter turnout in a nonpresidential congressional election year since 2000.
Sixty-nine percent of voting-age citizens were registered to vote in the 2022 midterms, the highest rate for a midterm this millennium.
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