Trends in Statewide Voter Registration 1998 – 2018
| Party |
1998 |
2002 |
2006 |
2010 |
2014 |
2018 |
|
Democrat |
46.8% |
45.0% |
42.7% |
44.5% |
43.4% |
44.4% |
|
Republican |
35.8% |
35.0% |
34.4% |
30.8% |
28.4% |
25.1% |
|
No Party Listed |
12.4% |
14.8% |
18.5% |
20.2% |
21.2% |
25.5% |
Eight in ten are registered to vote; independent registration continues to increase.
As of February 2019, 19.9 million of California’s 25.3 million eligible adults were registered to vote.
At 79.1% of eligible adults, this is an increase from the registration rate in 2015 (72.7%), the last year preceding a presidential election. The share of registered voters who are Democrats (43.1%) is similar to what it was in 2015 (43.2%), while the share of Republicans (23.6%) has declined (28.0%). At the same time, the share of voters who say they are independent (also known as “decline to state” or “no party preference”) has been increasing and is now 28.3%, up from 23.6% in 2015.
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