State-by-State Youth Turnout

National youth turnout in 2024 was 47%, but this headline number hides enormous state-level variation — from 62% in Minnesota to 33% in Oklahoma and Arkansas.

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Change from 2020 to 2024

Most states saw declines in youth turnout from the historic 2020 peak. A handful of battleground states bucked the trend.

Election laws vs turnout

Do permissive election laws actually correlate with higher youth turnout? Merging the state turnout data with a facilitative-laws score (0-6, counting automatic voter registration (AVR), online voter registration (OVR), same-day registration (SDR), pre-reg at 16, no-excuse absentee, and universal mail ballots):

The regression line shows a clear positive relationship: every additional permissive election law is associated with roughly 3-4 percentage points higher youth turnout.

Regional patterns

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