More than 50 million people cast their votes.
According to Hale, the data of a monitoring organization at the University of Florida about early voting indicates that 51 million people participated in the 2024 presidential election in the United States within a week of election day.
Based on this, more than 24 million people have cast their votes electronically and about 27 million people have cast their votes in person. This figure is about a third of the participation in the 2020 elections, in which more than 154 million Americans participated, and due to the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, most of them preferred electronic voting.
According to the Pew Research Institute, the 2020 election cycle recorded the highest participation rate in national elections since 1900, with about 66 percent participation. Now, Kamala Harris, the vice president, and Donald Trump, the former president of the United States, are fighting each other shoulder to shoulder.
Although early voting is not a very good indicator for predicting the outcome of the election, it provides general information. The Democrats have a slight advantage in the participation rate and have cast 39.5% of their votes. On the other hand, the Republicans have contributed 36.1%. 24.4 percent was the share of the minority party or independent voters.
Female voters have so far outnumbered male voters by about 10 percentage points, and 54.1 percent of American women have participated in early voting. In recent election cycles, American women have registered to participate in the elections by millions more than men, and in all presidential elections since 1964, they have always participated more than men. More than 41% of the participants (men and women) are over 65 years old.