{"id":262951,"date":"2025-06-26T09:56:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T13:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?p=262951"},"modified":"2026-03-04T13:15:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:15:01","slug":"demographic-profiles-of-trump-and-harris-voters-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/politics\/2025\/06\/26\/demographic-profiles-of-trump-and-harris-voters-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"3. Demographic profiles of Trump and Harris voters in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The composition of Republican and Democratic voters in the United States has changed since the 2020 presidential election, and the shifts have been even larger since the 2016 contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald Trump\u2019s voters overall were more racially and ethnically diverse in 2024 than in his prior campaigns, reflecting gains among Hispanic, Black and Asian voters. Conversely, Kamala Harris\u2019 voters were somewhat less<\/em> diverse than the voters who backed Joe Biden in 2020 or Hillary Clinton in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite these changes, there continue to be wide differences in the makeup of the partisan coalitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump voters were less racially and ethnically diverse, older and less likely to have a four-year college degree than Harris voters. And the sizable religious differences between those who voted for Republican and Democratic candidates persisted: Roughly eight-in-ten Trump voters (79%) identified as Christian, compared with about half (52%) of Harris voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About this report<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

This Pew Research Center analysis examines voter turnout and voting preferences in the 2024 presidential election through the lens of validated voters. Validated voters<\/strong> are adult citizens who told us that they voted in a postelection survey and<\/em> have a record showing they voted in their state\u2019s official voter turnout records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The postelection survey of U.S. adults was conducted Nov. 12-17, 2024, on the American Trends Panel (ATP). The ATP is a panel survey, meaning that we have interviewed many of the same respondents after each national election going back to 2016. This allows us to examine how individuals changed their turnout or candidate preferences over time. For more on how the study was conducted, read the report\u2019s methodology<\/a>. For more about terms used in the report, refer to the terminology box<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Racial and ethnic composition of Harris and Trump voters in 2024<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The racial and ethnic composition of voters shifted only modestly over the past three elections, though the share of voters who are White and not Hispanic continued to tick lower. White voters made up 71% of all voters last year, down from 73% in 2020 and 74% in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Related:<\/em><\/strong> Explore long-term changes in the composition of registered voters in our report \u201c<\/em>Changing Partisan Coalitions in a Politically Divided Nation<\/em><\/a>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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White non-Hispanic adults continued to make up a large majority (78%) of voters who supported Trump. However, this represents the lowest share in the past three presidential elections.<\/strong> White voters made up 86% of Trump\u2019s coalition in 2020 and 88% of Trump voters in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another 10% of Trump voters were Hispanic, while 3% were Black and 3% were Asian. The share of Trump voters who are Hispanic, Black, Asian or another race has roughly doubled since his 2016 election, from 11% to 20%, mostly because Hispanic voters now make up a larger share of his voters (10%, up from 6% in 2016).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among Harris voters, 64% were non-Hispanic White, slightly higher than the share of Biden (61%) or Clinton voters (60%) who were White.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among Harris voters, 16% were non-Hispanic Black, while another 11% were Hispanic. Asian adults accounted for 5% of Harris\u2019 voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Educational composition of 2024 voters<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

About six-in ten voters in 2024 (59%) did not have a college degree. This share has steadily decreased over time as the share of Americans with a college degree has grown<\/a> (in 2016, 63% of voters did not have a college degree).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Overall, those who voted for Democratic candidates in recent elections have been more likely than Republican voters to have a college degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris voters were about evenly split between those who do have a college degree (48%) and those who do not (51%). The share of Democratic voters who have a college degree has risen somewhat since 2016, when 43% had a degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among Trump\u2019s 2024 voters, two-thirds (67%) did not have a college degree, down slightly from 71% in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the share of Republican voters who are White and have no college degree has substantially declined since 2016.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2024, White noncollege voters made up a narrow majority (51%) of Trump\u2019s coalition. That is the smallest share in his three campaigns for the White House:<\/p>\n\n\n\n