Analysis

While Michigan is still an overwhelmingly white and older electorate, younger voters and Asian voters are a growing share of the state’s vote.

That young voters are highly engaged in the political process and enthusiastic about the Democratic presidential primaries.

We can now begin to fully assess exactly how the 2018 midterm election results came to be. The interactive dashboards include state-by-state and national analyses covering vote share and turnout for wealth of demographic data and can be broken down by multiple sub-groups, including age, race, gender, voter score, party rollup, and urbanicity.

Despite not making gains in Ohio in 2018, our analysis shows that Democrats still have a path to victory in the state if they can turn out Suburban and Urban voters who propelled them to victory in other states.

November 2018’s midterm elections show that despite older and whiter voters continuing to compose a majority of the vote share, Democrats still have a path to winning in the state

A significant surge in the vote share of young and Hispanic voters compared to previous elections reflects how a diversifying electorate could have potential impacts on the strength of the blue wave in future elections.