The voters who decided elections in El Paso County this year were similar to the electorate in 2020, just fewer of them.
According to official voting results, 254,677 El Paso County residents cast ballots in the Nov. 5 election, more than 14,000 fewer than the 269,007 who voted in the 2020 general election. The 2020 election drew the largest number of voters ever for an El Paso election.
The biggest change in this year’s election was a much stronger performance by Republican candidates in traditionally Democratic El Paso.
The people who voted this year were slightly older, on average, than in 2020. That’s in line with census data that shows El Paso’s population aging.
The only age group that saw an increase in voter participation was those age 65 and older. The steepest declines were among voters under 30 and those between 45 and 64.
Women made up 55% of voters in both 2020 and 2024.
Almost 64,000 people who voted in 2020 did not do so in 2024, even though they are still registered to vote in El Paso County. About 55% of them are women, similar to the percentage of women in the total voting pool this year.
LEARN MORE: El Paso election results: How El Pasoans voted in the November 5 general election
More than half the people who voted four years ago but not this year are under age 45. The biggest dropoff was among people age 30-44, which generally corresponds with the demographic group known as millennials.
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