With 52.2% of adult U.S. citizens casting ballots, voter turnout for last year’s elections was the second highest for a midterms since 2000, according to estimates the Census Bureau released Tuesday.
The 2018 midterms — the first major national contests after former President Donald Trump’s election — saw slightly higher turnout than last year’s races.
The 2022 midterm elections also saw a continuing shift toward early and mail-in voting since the COVID-19 pandemic, as 49.8% of voters opted out of the more traditional way of casting their ballots in person on the last day of voting.
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