***** OVER 25% OF VOTERS ARE NOT REGISTERED DEMS OR REPS
For the first time in at least 75 years, less than three-fourths of
the nation's registered voters are registered "Democratic" or
"Republican."
New registration data, shown on the chart on page four, shows that
the percentage of voters registered "independent" or as members of
minor parties now exceeds 25%. Of course, this data is solely from
the 30 jurisdictions in which people register into parties on
registration forms. The other 21 states are excluded because they
don't have partisan registration.
Declining major party membership is surprising, since the race for
the Democratic presidential nomination has motivated some voters to
switch to the Democratic party, so as to be able to vote in
Democratic primaries.
Ballot Access News has been printing registration statistics by party
in all even-numbered years, starting in 1992. In addition, the editor
has registration data for most states that is much older (in some
cases, 90 years old). For years now, the percentage of people
registered in the major parties has been slowly declining. In 1992,
48% of voters in the "registration states" were Democrats, and 34%
were Republicans, leaving only 18% of the voters in other categories.
Currently, Democrats are 42%, Republicans are 33%, and 25%+ are
"other."
The vast majority of the "other" voters are independents. Although
Green and Libertarian registration is at an all-time high (whether
looking at raw numbers or percentages) that registration is still
low. Members of all minor parties still comprise fewer than 2% of the
voters.
Democrats have 42.19%, Republicans 32.78%, Constitution .36%; Green
.34%, Libertarian .27%, Reform .07%, Natural Law .04%, American .01%.
The various one-state parties, together, are .78%. See page four for
a state-by-state list. . . .
<http://www.ballot-access.org/2004/0201.html#1> *****
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Yoshie
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