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Asian Americans fastest-growing eligible voters in US: Pew Research
Hawaii is the only state where Asian Americans constitute a majority of the eligible voter population.
Asian Americans have emerged as the fastest-growing group of eligible voters in the United States. According to a study by the Pew Research Centre, their numbers have increased by 15 percent (about 2 million) in the past four years. This growth rate has surpassed the 3 percent growth observed for all eligible voters during the same period as well as the 12 percent growth for Hispanic eligible voters.
Typically, Asian Americans lean Democratic. In the 2020 elections, 72 percent of English-speaking, single-race, non-Hispanic Asian voters indicated they voted for Democrat Joe Biden for president, while 28 percent stated they voted for Republican Donald Trump, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of validated voters.
A November 2023 Pew Research study projected that 15 million Asian Americans would be eligible to vote, constituting about 6.1 percent of all eligible voters. The number of Asian American eligible voters and their share in the US voter population has experienced a significant surge between 2020 and 2024, based on Pew's projections.
Hawaii is the only state where Asian Americans constitute most number of eligible voters, making up 55 percent of the electorate. It is the state where a racial or ethnic group, other than single-race White, non-Hispanic eligible voters, forms the majority. The states with the next-largest shares of Asian eligible voters are California (17 percent) and Nevada (11 percent).
A majority of Asian American eligible voters are naturalized citizens and distinctive among major racial or ethnic groups. Pew's findings indicate that Asian American eligible voters are more likely than the overall eligible voter population to hold a bachelor's degree.
As of 2020, half of Asian American eligible voters have a bachelor's degree or higher, while only a third of all US eligible voters have attained at least a bachelor's degree.
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