---
"title": "Hispanic Partisan Split"
"description": "Some 57% of Hispanic registered voters now say they are Democrats or lean Democratic while just 23% align with the Republican Party -- a 34-percentage-point gap in partisan affiliation."
"date": "2007-12-28"
"authors":
  -
    "name": "Russell Heimlich"
    "job_title": "Former web developer"
    "link": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
"url": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/short-reads/2007/12/28/hispanic-partisan-split/"
"categories":
  - "Hispanic/Latino Voters"
  - "Voter Demographics"
---

# Hispanic Partisan Split

After spending the first part of this decade loosening their historic ties to the Democratic Party, Hispanic voters have apparently reversed course in the past year; in a new Pew Hispanic Center survey, some 57% of Latino registered voters now say they are Democrats or lean toward the Democratic Party, while just 23% align with the Republican Party — a 34-percentage-point gap in partisan affiliation. In July 2006, the same gap measured just 21 percentage points having shrunk from 33 points in 1999. [Read More](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/pubs/644/english-language-usage-hispanics)