Research

 

FEATURE OF THE MONTH:

 

Behind the Numbers: Post Election Survey of Asian American and Pacific Islander Voters in 2012, Authored by AAJC, APIAVote, and NAAS.  Released 4/5/13

 Behind The Numbers  

Powerpoint Presentation Presented on 4/5/13 & 4/8/13

 

 Recording of the 4/8/13 Webinar

 

Preliminary Post-Election Poll Results of Asian American Voters, Report Commissioned by AAJC, APIAVote, and NAAS

 

 

2012 National Asian American Survey

 

 

Political Poll on Asian American Voters, Released on May 1 2012

 

 


Census

Interactive Map from The Washington Post

 

 

2010 Fact Sheets - Key States


Taken from Asian American Political Participation: Emerging Constiuents and their Political Identities, Wong et. al

 

AAPI Voters Make a Difference

 

  • The share of eligible voters who were Asian increased from 3.3% in 2004 to 3.4% in 2008. There were 6.9 million Asian eligible voters in 2008, up from 6.5 million in 2004.

  • The number of Asian eligible voters increased 5.9% between 2004 and 2008.
  • Asian represented 2.5% of all voters in 2008, up from 2.3% in 2004
  • Among Asian elgible voters, the voter turnout rate was up 2.4 percentage points – 47% in 2008 versus 44.6% in 2004
  • Black, Asian and Latino eligible voters reduced the voter turnout rate gap with whites in 2008 compared with 2004
  • The voter turnout rate among Asian eligible voters ages 18 to 29 was up 10.5 percentage points, to 42.9% in 2008 32.4% in 2004. This was the largest increase among all racial and ethnic groups for that age group.

Taken from Dissecting the 2008 Electorate: the Most Diverse in U.S. History, Lopez and Taylor

 

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