Title: Over 90 Million Eligible Voters Didn’t Vote in 2016 | Heavy.com
Headings: Over 90 Million Eligible Voters Didn’t Vote in the 2016 Presidential Election
Over 90 Million Eligible Voters Didn’t Vote in the 2016 Presidential Election
An Estimated 57.9 Percent of Eligible Voters Voted in 2016
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It’s not How Many Votes, but Where the Votes Come From That Matters
Voter Turnout Wasn’t Great in States Important for Trump’s Victory

Content: The voter turnout will likely increase as the popular vote continues to be counted. Voting Eligible Population Ballots
Voter Eligible Population That Didn’t Vote
Voter Eligible Population Total
138,884,643 (60 percent)
92,671,979 (40 percent)
231,556,622



This number is not the same number as registered voters. Politico reported in October 2016 that the data firm TargetSmart calculated that there were 200 million people registered to vote, an increase from 146.3 million registered to vote in 2008. Eleven states also allowed same-day voter registration. The Elections Project notes that there were 251,107,404 people who classify as members of the voting-age population, therefore 115,449,897 of the voting-age population (or 46.3 percent) did not vote. ( The U.S. Census bureau estimates that there are over 320 million people living in the U.S.)
This is different from the voting-eligible population because there are over 3.2 million people ineligible to vote as felons. The Sentencing Project estimates that 2.5 percent of the U.S. voting-age population cannot vote because of a felony record. The number of eligible voters who turned out in 2016 was a slight increase in eligible voter turnout from 2012. FEC data from that election shows that 54.87 percent of the voting-age population cast a vote for president, or 129,085,410 of the 235,248,000 voting age population cast a vote. However, 2016 was still far from the high reached in 2008, when 58.23 percent of the voting-age population participated.