Document Type
Report
Publication Date
10-2020
Abstract
The Puerto Rican population that is eligible to register to vote in the United States—because they are citizens of the United States and 18 years of age or older—continued to grow in 2019. According to an analysis of recently released survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the Puerto Rican population in the United States that is potentially able to participate in the elections is more than four million.
While nationally Puerto Ricans represented 1.7 percent of the voting-eligible population, this proportion varied by state, raging between 1 percent in Ohio and nearly 8 percent in Connecticut, among the states with the largest Puerto Rican populations in the country. Puerto Ricans, therefore, represent a non-trivial segment of the electorate in highly competitive states such as Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The data for the present analysis derives from one-year estimates of the 2019 American Community Survey, the most recent data released by the Census Bureau, as well as data from the same survey for 2015, 2017 and 2018.
