NYC Reported Voting in Midterm and Presidential Elections by Age, Schooling, Birthplace and Tenure, 1996–2024
Aggregate statistics from the article “In New York City's midterms, the gap in reported voting between the oldest and youngest adult citizens widens to 19 points, from 12 in presidential years”
No synthetic records. Published or computed tabulations containing no person-level records.
- Records
- Aggregate statistics
- Place
- New York City
- Version
- 1.0,
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0; code MIT
In New York's last four midterms, 28% of adult citizens under 30 said they voted, against 47% of those 65 and over: a 19-point gap, 12 in presidential years.
What it shows
The article's own data file, aggregate statistics cut to what it analyses, and the script that computes every figure in it. Computed from: CPS November Voting and Registration Supplements, every even-year November election 1996-2024 (public-use files; 1996-2008 as mirrored by NBER, layouts from each year's techdoc and NBER's 1996 dictionary); the Census Bureau's Table 4b for New York State, 2018 and 2024; the NYC Board of Elections' turnout records, 1996-2024, and its 2025 annual report; census 1990 and 2000 PUMS and ACS one-year PUMS 2006-2024 (adult citizens); the Board's 2026 election calendar.
Files
Each file's columns are under Columns below and in data_dictionary.csv.
| File | Rows | Size | What it holds |
|---|---|---|---|
data.csv |
125 | 11 KB | The data |
analysis.py |
42 KB | The analysis script |
Columns
data.csv: The data (12 columns)
The aggregate statistics the article's figures are computed from.
table, period, group, share, moe, records, weighted_yes, weighted_base, ballots, census_adult_citizens, census_basis, counted_per_100. The article and its script
define each one.
Licence and credit
Data CC BY 4.0; the script MIT. Records we counted from government files stay under their publishers' terms. Public-use microdata are disclosure-protected records derived from survey responses, published by the issuing agency so that no respondent can be identified; synthetic records are generated by SparkyData and correspond to no real person, household or address. Neither may be used to identify anyone.
Credit it as:
SparkyData (2026). NYC Reported Voting in Midterm and Presidential Elections by Age, Schooling, Birthplace and Tenure, 1996–2024 (version 1.0). Data CC BY 4.0.
https://sparkydata.dev/data/nyc-reported-voting-in-midterm-and-presidential-electionsSources (9)
- U.S. Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics — Current Population Survey, November Voting and Registration Supplements, November 1996 to November 2024, every even year
- U.S. Census Bureau — Table 4b, Reported Voting and Registration by Sex, Race and Hispanic Origin, for States: November 2018 (P20-583), The November 2018 table
- U.S. Census Bureau — Table 4b, Reported Voting and Registration of the Total Voting-Age Population, by Sex, Race and Hispanic Origin, for States: November 2024 (P20-590), The November 2024 table (the release page links the workbook from the Bureau's p20/587 folder)
- National Bureau of Economic Research — CPS November supplement files and the 1996 data dictionary, Retrieved 18 October 2026
- Board of Elections in the City of New York — Annual Reports, General Elections Turnout, General elections 1996-2024, and the 2025 report; retrieved 18 October 2026
- U.S. Census Bureau — 1990 and 2000 census public-use microdata samples (5%), The 1990 sample (the Bureau's 1990_PUMS_A folder) and the 2000 sample, New York
- U.S. Census Bureau — American Community Survey one-year public-use microdata (2006-2024), The 2006-2024 one-year files; 2005 left out (no group quarters); 2020 the experimental release
- U.S. Census Bureau — Comparing 2006 American Community Survey Data, Read 19 October 2026
- NYC Board of Elections — All Important Dates (General Election, 3 November 2026), Read 18 October 2026
The article gives the charts, the uncertainty of each comparison and its own changelog. Corrections and questions: sparkytech.dev@gmail.com, or see corrections.