First, a rising trend among California voters: Staying clear of either major party. In 2014, 23 percent of California voters registered as “No Party Preference”, just 5 percent fewer than the number who identified as Republicans.
But the number of eligible Latinos who voted in the 2014 election was the lowest it has been in almost a decade, a study from the University of California Davis Center for Regional Change found.
Latinos, who recently surpassed whites as the largest ethnic group in California, make up 39 percent of the state’s population. Yet, in 2014 they represented only 15 percent of the electorate, and only 17 percent of all Latinos who were eligible to vote did so.
But they weren’t the only ones who shied away from the polls, just 18 percent of eligible Asian Americans showed up for the 2014 election in California.
Despite the low turnout figures, Latinos and Asian Americans registered to vote at a faster pace than the rest of the state’s general population between 2010-14. And over the past decade, Latino registration increased by nearly 58 percent, while the number of registered Asian American voters grew by 49 percent.
The areas with low Latino and Asian-American voter turnout are clustered together in the southern and central part of the state: the San Joaquin Valley, Los Angeles and San Diego County.
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