Late voter registration trends

Voter registration for Nov 8th, 2016 in WA has closed and here’s a breakdown of some late registration trends.

The average age of a recently registered voters is 37, roughly 11 years younger than the average age of all voters. This trend is consistent across all 49 legislative districts.

Here’s a breakdown by legislative district, showing average ages of All voters, only voters registered 2016, and the difference between them.

Leg. District	All Voters	Registered in 2016	Difference
15	47.2	33.2	14.0
43	41.7	33.2	8.5
9	47.5	34.1	13.3
29	45.8	35.1	10.6
36	44.6	35.2	9.4
28	48.2	35.3	12.9
44	46.8	35.5	11.2
46	47.3	35.7	11.6
27	47.2	36.2	11.0
25	47.6	36.3	11.3
40	49.4	36.4	13.1
1	47.4	36.6	10.9
2	47.2	36.6	10.6
45	48.0	36.8	11.3
5	47.6	36.8	10.8
38	48.2	36.9	11.3
21	48.0	36.9	11.1
48	48.8	36.9	11.8
39	48.5	37.1	11.5
16	49.5	37.1	12.4
17	48.1	37.1	11.0
23	50.3	37.1	13.2
41	49.4	37.2	12.1
47	47.4	37.3	10.1
6	48.8	37.3	11.4
18	48.7	37.3	11.4
3	46.4	37.4	9.1
31	48.3	37.5	10.8
11	46.6	37.5	9.1
14	50.6	37.5	13.1
30	47.9	37.7	10.2
22	48.5	37.7	10.8
49	48.8	37.9	10.9
13	49.6	38.0	11.7
8	48.9	38.1	10.9
37	46.0	38.1	7.9
32	49.1	38.3	10.8
33	48.3	38.4	10.0
26	50.3	38.6	11.7
34	48.4	38.6	9.8
4	49.1	38.6	10.5
42	49.0	39.8	9.2
35	51.6	40.1	11.5
12	52.0	40.4	11.5
20	51.1	40.6	10.4
10	52.7	40.8	12.0
7	52.0	40.8	11.2
19	52.1	42.0	10.1
24	55.6	45.9	9.7

Districts average about a 1% increase from new registrations in ’16.

Here are the top 10 legislative districts by new-registration.

Leg. District	Number Voters	New Registrations	% growth
40	100,566	3,090	3.07%
43	118,302	2,516	2.13%
12	83,491	1,675	2.01%
22	108,232	2,066	1.91%
42	100,282	1,792	1.79%
13	78,080	1,389	1.78%
9	83,842	1,481	1.77%
8	89,393	1,567	1.75%
21	94,752	1,650	1.74%
3	86,858	1,511	1.74%