Young Voters Stepping Away From Both Parties: Poll

Younger United States voters are drifting from both parties and instead registering as independent.

A Gallup poll shows that overall, 41% of young voters identify as independent, compared to 28% identifying as Democrat and the same amount identifying as Republican.

The poll, which shows an average of identification from 1988-2022, shows a heavy spike beginning in the early 2010s and into the 2020s.

John Della Volpe, director of poling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, told Axios in an interview that millennials — and now Gen Z — have always been “fiercely independent.”

Typically, Americans have “weak attachments” to the two major political parties in young adulthood, and then lean one way or the other as they get older. However, an August 2022 Gallup report noted that each younger generation has had a greater proportion of independent voters throughout their lives than the prior generation. (Read more from “Young Voters Stepping Away From Both Parties: Poll” HERE)

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