Fantastic Voter Registration Stats

by Julia Rosen [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

I expect that we would see a surge in Democratic registration due to the presidential primary, but did not think it would be quite this good.  We now have reversed the trend of dropping our share due to the rise of the DTS stats and have a greater share of the electorate registered as Democrats now, compared to four years ago.  It is small, but compared to the dwindling Republican numbers it is impressive.

Keep in mind that voters did not have to register as Democrats to participate in the Democratic primary.

The overall voter registration numbers have grown to 16.1 million, a growth of a million voters since the 2004 primary.  The growth actually increased the percentage of eligible voters who are registered to vote from 68.96% in 2004 to 70% now.

This really would be better in a formal table, but I just grabbed it from Secretary Bowen's press release.

                                       May 19, 2008                          February 17, 2004

Political Party                  # Registered    % of Total               # Registered    % of Total

American Independent  331,619              2.06 %                 291,055          1.93 %

Democratic          7,053,860             43.75 %               6,518,631         43.20 %

Green                120,725              0.75 %                 157,749          1.05 %

Libertarian           79,711         0.49 %                   86,053         0.57 %

Peace and Freedom     56,364        0.35 %                    70,475         0.47 %

Republican         5,244,394             32.53 %               5,364,832         35.55 %

Decline to State   3,128,684             19.40 %               2,480,039         16.43 %

Miscellaneous         108,430       0.67 %               122,326            0.81 %

TOTAL               16,123,787        100 %            15,091,160             100 %