INDIANAPOLIS – Fewer Hoosiers turned out to vote in November than they did during the pandemic-era 2020 presidential election, according to Indiana’s final numbers — but they bested ballot counts and turnout recorded in the two previous presidential elections.
Almost 3 million Indiana residents voted, or about 61% of those registered with the state.
That’s nearly 100,000 fewer Hoosier voices than in 2020 when turnout hit a high of 65% — but better than the 2016 and 2012 elections.
Laura Wilson, a political science professor at the University of Indianapolis, called 2020 “an anomaly in many ways” but said it’s too soon to know the pandemic’s electoral impacts. “We’ll have to have successive presidential elections to confirm whether or not that was a blip in the radar because of unusual, once-in-a-century experiences,” she said.
But, she observed, Indiana — like other states — expanded voter access during the pandemic.
Read more of the Leslie Bonilla Muñiz story for the Indiana Capital Chronicle, here.
