Early Vote
The 2024 Early Voter Tracker is now available.
Since 2008, Dr. McDonald with the UF Election Lab disseminates early voting statistics for all of the United States. He covers the period of time leading into a presidential general election, and select other elections of note. We provide overall state statistics on the number of early voters and their voting method: in-person early or by mail. Where available we provide these statistics by counties and by party registration, age, gender, and race. Over the years, millions of people have followed along with the early voting tracker and these statistics have been reported widely by international, national, and local media.
These statistics provide clues as to expected overall turnout for the election, which can indicate which pollster likely voter model assumptions are the most reasonable. These statistics also give hints to relative partisan engagement by comparing party registration and demographic characteristics of the early vote in the current election to a past comparable election.
Early Vote Trackers
Note: the 2020 and 2020 trackers link to non-UF Election Lab sites.
Presidential Elections
Midterm Elections
2020 General Election State Mail Balloting and Turnout Rates
There is a strong correlation between mail balloting and state turnout rates, as UF Election Lab members demonstrate in this Election Law Journal article “Mail Voting and Voter Turnout.”
