logo

Poll: Independents Will Soon Outnumber Republicans and Democrats Combined

image
Created: 06 July, 2015
Updated: 21 November, 2022
1 min read

A recent NBC poll confirms that the partisan political environment is, in fact, taking a toll on the two major parties, with voter registration revealing that self-identified independents are the fastest growing voting bloc in America.

NBC commentators coin it “the rise of an 'independents’ era,” reporting that in 2014 the number of people self-identifying as independent was at 39 percent, passing that of Democrats (32 percent) and Republicans (23 percent). 

As of June 2015, the number of self-identifying independents has grown to 45 percent -- just 2 points shy of the number of Democrats and Republicans COMBINED.

"The largest political party in the United States in no longer a party at all,” NBC commentator Chuck Todd reports. 

"In the 31 states plus the District of Columbia where voters have to pick a party when registering to vote, unaffiliated or no party voters are now the leading political party in 12 of those state, and in a few of them, they are the majority of all registered voters." - Chuck Todd, NBC News

In Florida, a major 2016 battleground state, the number of independent voters has grown by one million voters in the last 10 years. Democrats have only seen an increase of 300,000 voters, and Republicans lag with just 200,000 additional voters in the same time period.

What does this mean for 2016? Candidates will have to start listening to the nation's increasingly independent-minded electorate if they want to distinguish themselves. The only issue is, do they know how?

WHY DON'T INDEPENDENTS HAVE A LARGER VOICE? WATCH:

IVP Existence Banner

Latest articles

White House
No Labels' Failed Presidential Math and Why It Should Focus Its Efforts on Reforming the System Instead
Earlier this month, No Labels officially ended its plans to field a bipartisan “Unity Ticket” in the 2024 presidential election. While most campaigns end due to a lack of voter support or funding, No Labels’s campaign suffered the unique problem of lacking a candidate....
26 April, 2024
-
6 min read
2024 ballot
Pew: Half of US Voters Would Replace Trump AND Biden on the Ballot If Given Chance
US voters are largely unhappy with the options the two major parties have given them in the 2024 presidential election. While Hillary Clinton says these voters need to get over themselves, Pew Research has found that she is talking to most of the country....
25 April, 2024
-
2 min read
voting
Breaking Down the Numbers: Independent Voter Suppression in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania held its primary elections Tuesday, which effectively acted as the general election in most cases. However, statewide, over a million voters had to sit on the sidelines because of the state's closed primary rules....
24 April, 2024
-
3 min read