{"id":45298,"date":"2024-04-09T13:56:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T18:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2024\/04\/09\/party-identification-among-religious-groups-and-religiously-unaffiliated-voters\/"},"modified":"2024-06-21T10:55:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T14:55:49","slug":"party-identification-among-religious-groups-and-religiously-unaffiliated-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/politics\/2024\/04\/09\/party-identification-among-religious-groups-and-religiously-unaffiliated-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"5. Party identification among religious groups and religiously unaffiliated voters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The relationship between partisanship and voters\u2019 religious affiliation continues to be strong \u2013 especially when it comes to whether they belong to any organized religion at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The gap between voters who identify with an organized religion and those who do not has grown much wider in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Protestants mostly align with the Republican Party. <\/strong>Protestants remain the largest single religious group in the United States. As they have for most of the past 15 years, a majority of Protestant registered voters (59%) associate with the GOP, though as recently as 2009 they were split nearly equally between the two parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Partisan identity among Catholics had been closely divided, but the GOP now has a modest advantage among Catholics. <\/strong>About half of Catholic voters identify as Republicans or lean toward the Republican Party, compared with 44% who identify as Democrats or lean Democratic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints remain overwhelmingly Republican.<\/strong> Three-quarters of voters in this group, widely known as Mormons, identify as Republicans or lean Republican. Only about a quarter (23%) associate with the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jewish voters continue to mostly align with the Democrats.<\/strong> About seven-in-ten Jewish voters (69%) associate with the Democratic Party, while 29% affiliate with the Republican Party. The share of Jewish voters who align with the Democrats has increased 8 percentage points since 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Muslims associate with Democrats over Republicans by a wide margin.<\/strong> Currently, 66% of Muslim voters say they are Democrats or independents who lean Democratic, compared with 32% who are Republicans or lean Republican. (Data for Muslim voters is not available for earlier years because of small sample sizes.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democrats maintain a wide advantage among religiously unaffiliated voters. <\/strong>Religious \u201cnones\u201d have become more Democratic over the past few decades as their size in the U.S. population overall and in the electorate has grown significantly. While 70% of religiously unaffiliated voters align with the Democratic Party, just 27% identify as Republicans or lean Republican.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Related:<\/em><\/strong> <\/em>Religious \u201cnones\u201d in America: Who they are and what they believe<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Religion, race and ethnicity, and partisanship<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Over the past few decades, White evangelical Protestant voters have moved increasingly toward the GOP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n