# So what's this electorate, anyway?

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**Created:** [April 30, 2016, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-this-electorate-anyway/753482 "2016-04-30T05:42:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 30, 2016, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-this-electorate-anyway/753482/1 "2016-04-30T05:42:21Z")

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Following are a couple of informative links describing the makeup of the electorate:

[Pew Research Electorate Demographics](http://www.people-press.org/2015/04/07/a-deep-dive-into-party-affiliation/)

[Gallup Polls Electorate Demographics](http://www.gallup.com/poll/188096/democratic-republican-identification-near-historical-lows.aspx)

The Pew survey is a year old, but it’s the latest one they’ve published as far as I can tell. As a matter of fact, it looks like the publication of data for last year is at least a couple of weeks late. Anyway, I doubt there’ll be any kind of major sea change in one year’s time. It also enjoys the major advantage of a large sample size. (Table of measurement errors on page 2.)

The Gallup survey is newer (January) but doesn’t go as in-depth. I’m sure the full data set is available somewhere on their site, but I haven’t gotten into it yet.

This stuff has probably been posted here before, but I think it should be required reading for anyone interested in electoral politics. Besides, I’m an unoriginal bastard. 😃

The only major limitation is that they don’t treat income level.