CNN monitors who is vote for pre-election elections in the 36 states that offer early voting, as well as how early voting numbers compare to four years ago, when pre-election voting reached historic levels during the Covid-19 pandemic.
This page, updated daily, uses data from Catalist, election officials and Edison Research.
Democrats held a wide advantage over Republicans in early voting four years ago, but the gap could be narrower this time around because of senior Republican officials. urge your supporters to vote first Election day November 5.
Voters are registering by party in four of the seven presidential battlegrounds and in each of those four, Democrats cast a smaller share of the pre-election vote this year than during the same period in 2020. Data from Party registration is not available for the battleground states of Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin.
The overall decline in interest in early voting so far should come as no surprise.
The 2020 election saw historic levels of pre-election voting during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some voters were hesitant to vote in person, with Centers of Disease Control and Prevention guidelines recommending social distancing. Four years later, with the country emerging from the pandemic, more voters could return to the polls to cast ballots in person before or on Election Day.
Another metric evident in the data so far is that older voters make up a larger share of people voting in battleground states, compared to this time in 2020.
The data also shows trends in early voting by racial and ethnic groups, offering clues about the composition of the electorate. In some battleground states, a greater share of white voters cast ballots before the election than at this point in 2020.