The rate of voter turnout for the 2020 presidential election was among the highest in over a century, with nearly 67% of eligible voters heading to the polls on Nov. 3, 2020, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Some states, though, were really bringing up that average.
Data from the last few presidential elections suggests that a handful of states — usually led by Minnesota — have a far higher percentage of voter turnout than the national average in each election year. In 2020, for instance, approximately 79.21% of voting-eligible Minnesotans turned up to the polls, followed by Colorado with 76.69%, Oregon and Washington with 75.33% each, and Wisconsin with 75.04%, according to the University of Florida Election Lab, a resource overseen by Dr. Michael P. McDonald.
States with consistently high rates of voting in more recent elections include Colorado, Iowa, Maine, New Hampshire, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin — but Minnesota still can’t be beat. The state had the highest rate of turnout among the voting-eligible population in every presidential election since 1980, which is the furthest back the UF Elections Lab offers data on state-by-state turnout.
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