# Registered voter turnout

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/registered-voter-turnout/783485>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [April 1, 2017, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/registered-voter-turnout/783485 "2017-04-01T07:23:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/registered-voter-turnout/783485/1 "2017-04-01T07:23:14Z")

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Is there a site that has statistics of voter turnout by state based on registered voters? Googling finds a number of news articles and whatnot but they usually talk about “eligible voters” without defining that term. As far as I can tell, they mean percentage of all adult citizens or something other than registered voters. At least most say that Minnesota has the highest turnout of any state with 74% or so. Since my state had some 80% of registered voters vote, I have to conclude they’re counting something different.

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**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/registered-voter-turnout/783485/2 "2017-04-05T11:00:15Z")

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Wikipedia has voter turnout, by state, for Presidential elections. [This spreadsheet, which presented via Google and an extra click,](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tP_RcBjp_YoHH-tYimQFLSmjPLtmXSyvwLpqExaYIeI/edit#gid=0) claims to show voter registration, by state.

I won’t spend time doing the 51 divisions for you, because I think “eligible voter” is the more pertinent statistic.