Declining numbers
What follows are the Nevada voter turnouts in presidential elections for the past 40 years. In order not to mislead, we have used percentage of those eligible to vote, not of those registered to vote. The source is the Federal Elections Commission.
1960: 58.3 percent
1964: 52.09 percent
1968: 54.3 percent
1972: 49.53 percent
1976: 44.17 percent
1980: 41.18 percent
1984: 41.48 percent
1988: 44.88 percent
1992: 49.98 percent
1996: 38.31 percent
2000: 43.8 percent
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