Inside the Numbers
A look at relevant voting data leading up to Election Day in November.
Dave Schechter is a veteran journalist whose career includes writing and producing reports from Israel and elsewhere in the Middle East.
By racial self-identification, Georgia’s electorate (active and inactive): White, 50.7 percent; Black, 30.1 percent; Hispanic, 4.4 percent; Asian or Pacific, 2.9 percent; American Indian (the term used by the Secretary of State’s office), .8 percent; and other, 10.8 percent.
Georgia’s electorate, by age: 18-29: 20.5 percent; 30-39: 18.7 percent; 40-49: 15.9 percent; 50-59: 16 percent; 60-69: 14.6 percent; 70-79, 9.6 percent; 80-89: 3.6 percent; 90+: 0.7 percent.
The state’s electorate, by gender: 53.2 percent female, 46.6 percent male, and 0.2 percent other.
Source: Georgia Secretary of State website
In the 2020 general election, 66.8 percent of registered voters nationally cast ballots, the highest turnout since 1992 and up from 61.4 percent in 2016.
In Georgia, turnout in 2020 was 66.2 percent. Roughly one of every three registered voters, nationally and in Georgia, did not vote.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
In a Jewish Electoral Institute survey of 800 self-identified Jewish American registered voters, conducted April 16-21, 47 percent described their political ideology as liberal, 35 percent as moderate, and 16 percent conservative.
In terms of party identification, 57 percent were firmly Democratic with another 12 percent leaning in that party, while 14 percent were firmly Republican with 10 percent leaning toward the GOP.
Source: Jewish Electoral Institute
Georgia’s Jewish population in 2024 is an estimated 148,500, with 132,000 in metro Atlanta, according to the upcoming edition of the American Jewish Year Book. The Jewish community makes up 1.33 percent of the state’s population, estimated by the Census Bureau in 2023 to be 11,029,227.
Sources: Professor Ira M. Sheskin, University of Miami, and editor, American Jewish Year Book; U.S. Census Bureau.
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