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Super Tuesday Fact Sheets

• At a Glance: AAPIs in the United States
• 109th Congress: Top 100 Congressional Districts with Highest Population of Asian American Citizens of Voting Age
• At a Glance: AAPIs in California
• At a Glance: AAPIs in Illinois
• At a Glance: AAPIs in Massachussetts
• At a Glance: AAPIs in Minnesota
• At a Glance: AAPIs in New York
• At a Glance: AAPIs in New Jersey
• At a Galance: AAPIs in Greater Washington DC Metropolitan Area
• At a Glance: AAPIs in Washington
  

APIA Voters As Swing Voters

• High Impact Map: How can APIA Voters can influence outcomes in your state?
• 2006 Virginia Senate:   Jim Webb vs George Allen race won by 7,231 votes.  There are 162,679 potential APIA voters.
• 2004 Presidential Election:  APIAs make up 6.3% of the Nevada population.  In the 2004 presidential elections, nearly 22,000 votes decided which candidate would capture the state.  There are 82,527 APIA potential voters which the majority reside in Clark County/Las Vegas. 
• 2004 Presidential Election: 37, 517 decided if the state would turn red or blue, yet there were are 439, 388 potential APIA voters.
• 2004 Washington State Governor’s Race: APIAs Democratic Governor, Christine Gregoire, won by a mere 261 votes, which was determined by two recounts. The Voting Age Population of AAPIs is 257,000.

2006 Post Election Analysis of APIAs

• Highlights of the CNN Polls
• The Asian American Vote in the 2006 Midterm Elections: NY, NJ, MA, MI, PA, MD, VA, IL, WA, DC , Report by Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)
• Asian Americans at the Ballot Box: The 2006 General Election in Los Angeles County, Report by the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC)

2004 Post Election Analysis of APIAs

• US Census Bureau Report on Voting and Registration in the Election of 2004
• Climbing the Gold Mountain: APIA Civic Engagement in 2004, Lopez & Chung, Prepared for APIAVote
• 2004 Highlights of Exit Poll Results
• APIAVote's Presentation on Accomplishments and Voting Trends of 2004
• Multilingual Exit Poll in the 2004 Presidential Election, Report by the the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)
• 2004 Southern California Voter Survey, Report by the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC)
• South Asian Voting Trends and Elections, Report by South Asian American Leaders for Tomorrow (SAALT)
• Enabling the Asian American Electorate: 2003 Voter Registration in Eleven Massachusetts Cities and Towns by the Institute for Asian American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston

• Sound Barriers: Asian Americans and Language Access in the 2004 Elections, Report by the Asian American Justice Center
• Asian American Access to Democracy in the 2004 Elections, Report by AALDEF
• Poll Monitoring Results for Los Angeles County and Orange County, Report by APALC

2004 APIA Voting Profiles

• National APIA Voting Profile Handbook 2000 and 2002 Elections

2004 Statistical Portrait of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

• U.S. Census APA Heritage Month Info

Votes of Asian Pacific Americans Matter

• Voting Map
• Urban Institute Report: Latino and Asian Vote
• Power and Potential: The Growing Electoral Clout of New Citizens

APIA Polls

• interTrend Study: 2004 National Election Poll of APIAs
• New California Media Poll of APIAs on 2004 Election
• Polls on Political Participation of Asian Americans in Minnesota

Asian American & Pacific Islander Elected Officials

• Gender and Multicultural Leadership Project: The Future of Governance, a national study of America’s political leadership in the 21st century, with a focus on race, ethnicity, and gender. The project specifically addresses African American, Latina/o, Native American, and Asian American elected officials in U.S. politics.
• Asian Pacific-American Campaigns, Elections, and Elected Officials, Contributors: James S. Lai, Santa Clara University; Wendy K. Tam Cho, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Thomas P. Kim, Scripps College; Okiyoshi Takeda, Aoyama Gakuin University
  

Studies and Research

• USC Study on GOTV among APIA Youth and Adults
• Data on APIA Voters From the November 2002 Southern California Voter Survey
• Pilot Study of National Asian American Political Survey
• Asian American Voter Registration in Massachusetts
• APIAs Support Candidates Who Speak to APIA Issues
• The Backdoor and the Backlash: Campaign Finance and the Politicization of Chinese Americans by Taeku Lee

More Statistics

• Voter Registration and Related Statistics (2002 Election)
• Voter Registration and Related Statistics (2000 Election)

APAs Make a Difference in Local Congressional Races

• Top 50 APA Congressional Districts

Asian Pacific Americans in the US Congress

• CRS Report for Congress

Asian Population Demographic Data

• Asian Population Demographic Data
• Appendix A: Detailed State Information
• Appendix B: Detailed Asian Metropolitain Area
• The Asian Population Brief 2000
• U.S. Census Bureau: American Factfinder

Where do you find South Asians?

• SAAVY's Useful Instructions on how to download Census information

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