Gen Z in 2022 voted at a higher rate than previous generations did the first time they were eligible, and another 8 million will be eligible to vote in the 2024 elections, but will they?
“In a matchup between Biden and Trump, many young voters say they might choose silence,” Teen Vogue reported last week:
“After a record-breaking youth turnout in 2020 helped decide the election for President Joe Biden, a recent poll released by the Harvard Kennedy School shows that young Americans seem less likely to vote in 2024 than they were in 2020. According to the poll, at this point in the 2020 election cycle, 57% of Americans between ages 18 and 29 were planning to vote; that number has since declined to 49%.”
41 million members of Gen Z could vote in November. A study published Monday conducted by Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) reveals more Gen Z adults identify as Democrats than Millennials, Gen Xers, or Baby boomers. Axios reports they are “less likely than older generations to join an established religion, far more likely to identify as LGBTQ and generally are less likely to be Republican.”
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A plurality, and more than one in three (36%), identify as Democrats, the study shows. Just 21% identify as Republicans, and just three in ten (30%) identify as independents.
Nine out of ten Americans (90%) identify as straight, 5% as bisexual, 3% as gay or lesbian, and 2% as something else, according to PRRI.
72% of Gen Z adults (not all members of Gen Z have reached majority age yet) identify as straight, large difference. 15% say they are bisexual, 5% gay or lesbian, and 8% say something else.
Removing party affiliation, the overall plurality of American adults (34%) identify as moderate, but the plurality of Gen Z adults (43%) say they are liberal, compared to 31% of all American adults who identify as liberals.
28% of Gen Z adults identify as moderate, and another 28% as conservative.
On politics and voting, PRRI reports, “Gen Z adults, along with their millennial counterparts, hold little trust in America’s political institutions, but they participate in many political activities at similar or higher rates than older Americans.”
You can read the extensive PRRI report here.
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