Midterm Election Voter Turnout

Voter turnout in the U.S. midterm elections in 2022 as a percentage of eligible voters (of the 50 states and the District of Columbia) was as follows:

#1 Maine 61.5%

#2 Oregon 61.4%

#3 Minnesota 61.0%

#4 Wisconsin 60.1%

#5 Colorado 58.5%

. . .

#47 Oklahoma 40.1%

#48 Alabama 37.7%

#49 Mississippi 37.1%

#50 West Virginia 35.7%

#51 Tennessee 31.6% 

 

National average: 46.8%

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Turnout was slightly lower nationwide than the record modern midterm election turnout of 2018.

About 88% of people who are eligible to vote are active registered voters in Colorado. In Colorado, about 5.8% of adults (i.e. people who are at least 18 years old) are ineligible to vote because they are not U.S. citizens and about 15,000 adults (0.3%) are ineligible to vote because they are currently in prison.

The adult population of Colorado in 2022 was 4,631,586, of whom 4,346,493 were eligible to vote.

Nationally 7.3% of the adult population is not eligible to vote, because they were not citizens (in most cases), or as collateral consequences of a criminal conviction 1.2% (or both). About 7.5% of people in the U.S. are not U.S. citizens, but some of those non-citizens are not adults or are also disqualified from voting due to criminal convictions in the state where they live. Disqualification from voting as a collateral consequence of a criminal conviction differs materially from state to state.