| Election | Voting-age
population (VAP)[1] |
Voting-eligible
population (VEP)[1] |
Turnout[1] | Turnout as %
of VAP[1] |
Turnout as % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 75,768,000 | 39,817,000 | 52.6% | ||
| 1936 | 80,174,000 | 45,647,000 | 56.9% | ||
| 1940 | 84,728,000 | 49,815,000 | 58.8% | ||
| 1944 | 85,654,000 | 48,026,000 | 56.1% | ||
| 1948 | 95,573,000 | 48,834,000 | 51.1% | ||
| 1952 | 99,929,000 | 61,552,000 | 61.6% | ||
| 1956 | 104,515,000 | 62,027,000 | 59.3% | ||
| 1960 | 109,672,000 | 68,836,000 | 62.8% | ||
| 1964 | 114,090,000 | 70,098,000 | 61.4% | ||
| 1968 | 120,285,000 | 73,027,000 | 60.7% | ||
| 1972 | 140,777,000 | 77,625,000 | 55.1% | ||
| 1976 | 152,308,000 | 81,603,000 | 53.6% | ||
| 1980 | 163,945,000 | 159,635,102 | 86,497,000 | 52.8% | 54.2% |
| 1984 | 173,995,000 | 167,701,904 | 92,655,000 | 53.3% | 55.2% |
| 1988 | 181,956,000 | 173,579,281 | 91,587,000 | 50.3% | 52.8% |
| 1992 | 189,493,000 | 179,655,523 | 104,600,000 | 55.2% | 58.2% |
| 1996 | 196,789,000 | 186,347,044 | 96,390,000 | 49.0% | 51.7% |
| 2000 | 209,787,000 | 194,331,436 | 105,594,000 | 50.3% | 54.3% |
| 2004 | 219,553,000 | 203,483,455 | 122,349,000 | 55.7% | 60.1% |
| 2008 | 229,945,000 | 213,313,508 | 131,407,000 | 57.1% | 62.5% |
| 2012 | 235,248,000 | 222,474,111 | 129,235,000 | 53.8% | 58.0% |
| 2016 | 249,422,000 | 230,931,921 | 136,669,276 | 54.8% | 59.2% |
| 2020[3] | 257,605,088 | 239,247,182 | 159,690,457 | 62.0% | 66.9% |
In popular culture
editA scene from the 1953 romantic comedy movie Roman Holiday was filmed in Santa Maria in Cosmedin. In the scene, Joe (played by Gregory Peck) shocks Princess Ann (played by Audrey Hepburn) by pretending to lose his hand in the Bocca della Verità. Likewise, it was depicted as the church inside the unnamed abbey in the 2019 mini-series adaptation of the novel Name of the Rose.[4]
- ^ a b c d e "Voter Turnout in Presidential Elections | The American PresidencyProject". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-08.
Voting Age Population is typically calculated based on census data ('resident population [21 or 18] years and older'). Voting Eligible Population is an attempt to make an even more precise definition of the population of people who have a legal right to vote—potential voters. Making the estimates of noncitizens and disfranchized felons has been carried out mostly by Professor Michael McDonald and data are published on the U.S. Elections Project website.
{{cite web}}: External link in|quote= - ^ national-1789-present - United States Elections Project These numbers are taken from Vital Statistics of American Politics (CQ Press, Stanley and Niemi, eds.). Turnout rates from 1948-present are reported here and pre-1948 turnout rates are from Walter Dean Burnham [“The Turnout Problem” in Elections American Style ed., Reichley (Brookings: Washington D.C., 1987)], to whom I and many others are deeply indebted. Of course, historical turnout rates are calculated from data of dubious accuracy and are at times incomplete when statistics on a class of enfranchised population -- such white male property owners who meet a religious test -- must be estimated. However, these historical turnout rates are regarded as the most accurate available.
- ^ "2020g - United States Elections Project". www.electproject.org. Retrieved October 31, 2020.
- ^ O'Connor, Joanne. "On location: Roman Holiday". Financial Times.