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2022 turnout was down slightly from 2018. But it spiked in a handful of critical battleground states [1]
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Date: 2022-11-25
Arizona Democratic gubernatorial nominee Katie Hobbs arrived at an election night watch party at the Renaissance Phoenix Downtown Hotel on Nov. 8, 2022 in Phoenix, Arizona. Hobbs, now Arizona governor-elect, prevailed over GOP pro-Trump election denier Kari Lake.
When all the votes are counted, the 2022 midterms will go down as being a solid turnout cycle, even though it didn't quite reach the heights of the soaring turnout in 2018.
Overall, an estimated 46% of the voting-eligible population turned out this cycle to cast roughly 110 million ballots. That's a good midterm showing relative to the last couple decades even though it's down slightly from 2018, when nearly 50% of the voting-eligible population cast some 116 million ballots.
While turnout dropped in some of the most populous states, such as California, Florida, and New York, the turnout rate spiked in several battleground states. In effect, the states that hosted critical gubernatorial and Senate races as well as some consequential ballot measures saw some of the biggest turnout of the cycle, according to an analysis by NBC News.
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