About 4 in 10 registered voters in the United States plan to vote early in 2024, according to Gallup.
Analysis of voting trends by public opinion polling organizations; Friday releaseshows that while 40% of voters plan to vote early this year, there is a 15-point difference between parties.
The Democratic Party is recent research Republicans were 46% more likely to plan to vote early, compared to 31%. Independents were in the middle, with 43% saying they planned to vote by Election Day.
According to Gallup, early voting trends have skyrocketed since 2004, hitting double digits in 2012 and 2020. The current advantage is similar to the 18-point differential from the 2020 campaign.
The polarity is also evident in different age groups. About 51% of voters 65 and older said they would vote early. This is higher than the 41% of 50-64 year olds who answered the same question. According to the survey, turnout among people under 50 was 34%.
A majority of registered voters (69%) say they will vote in person this election cycle. About 21 percent plan to vote by mail, while 6 percent are undecided. In 2020, 35% of votes were cast by mail, according to the pollster.
About 77% of Republican voters said they would vote in person, compared with 66% of independents and 64% of Democrats. When it comes to voting by mail, Democrats are more likely to choose this option (27%), compared with 22% of independents and 13% of Republicans, according to the latest poll.
With less than a month until Election Day, Vice President Harris leads former President Trump by 2.9 percentage points (49.7% to 46.8%), according to The Hill/Decision Desk's polling index.
The analysis is based on a Gallup poll of 941 registered U.S. voters conducted from Sept. 16 to Sept. 28, before most states opened early voting. The margin of error was plus or minus 4 percentage points at a 95 percent confidence level.
