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Your Vote

Black citizens of voting age who voted, state by state

Start with what is working. Mississippi is doing best at 70.8%. Across the United States the figure is 59.6%. Every state is measured the same way, in the same period, so each one can learn from the others.

Black citizens of voting age who voted
Doing best: Mississippi70.8%
plus or minus 4.8 points
United States59.6%
plus or minus 1.5 points
Furthest to go: Arkansas42.5%
plus or minus 8.3 points
All citizens of voting age in the United States: 65.3% (plus or minus 0.5 points). Source: Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, the November 2024 election.
Doing best Mississippi 70.8%, plus or minus 4.8 points. Ranked 1st of 22 states. What is Mississippi doing that works? Furthest to go: Arkansas, 42.5%. See Mississippi ›

This is what people told the survey. It is not the count of registered voters or ballots cast.

Where you live

Enter your ZIP code or street address to find your state below and the people who decide this for you, by name. SourceLine does not keep the address.

Ranked from doing best

Every state

22 ranked of 51
Margin of error
1 Mississippi 70.8% plus or minus 4.8 points 68.9%
2 Maryland 70.5% plus or minus 7.4 points 71.1%
3 District of Columbia 70% plus or minus 5.5 points 79.5%
4 New Jersey 69.5% plus or minus 8.5 points 72.5%
5 Delaware 67.5% plus or minus 8.9 points 69.8%
6 Ohio 67.3% plus or minus 7.5 points 67.4%
7 Pennsylvania 66.6% plus or minus 8.9 points 69.7%
8 Virginia 63.6% plus or minus 5.4 points 72.9%
9 California 63.5% plus or minus 5.2 points 64.7%
10 Michigan 62.8% plus or minus 7.3 points 72.3%
11 Illinois 61.3% plus or minus 8.2 points 65.9%
12 Georgia 61.2% plus or minus 4.4 points 64.4%
13 North Carolina 61% plus or minus 7.3 points 64.6%
14 New York 60.1% plus or minus 6.1 points 59.2%
15 Texas 57.7% plus or minus 5.3 points 57.9%
16 Missouri 56.3% plus or minus 9.8 points 69.5%
17 South Carolina 55.8% plus or minus 6.1 points 62.7%
18 Florida 54.9% plus or minus 4.9 points 60.3%
19 Louisiana 53.4% plus or minus 4.9 points 58%
20 Alabama 52.4% plus or minus 5.2 points 58.7%
21 Tennessee 51.5% plus or minus 7.5 points 64.8%
22 Arkansas 42.5% plus or minus 8.3 points 52.8%
Not ranked Alaska 48.8% Wide margin of error plus or minus 23 points 62.1%
Not ranked Arizona 62.2% Wide margin of error plus or minus 13.9 points 61.7%
Not ranked Colorado 45.6% Wide margin of error plus or minus 20.8 points 70.1%
Not ranked Connecticut 38.1% Wide margin of error plus or minus 10.4 points 66.3%
Not ranked Hawaii 26.6% Wide margin of error plus or minus 21.4 points 58.5%
Not ranked Idaho 28.8% Wide margin of error plus or minus 24 points 65.2%
Not ranked Indiana 50% Wide margin of error plus or minus 10.6 points 60.7%
Not ranked Iowa 61% Wide margin of error plus or minus 17.2 points 71.8%
Not ranked Kansas 62.4% Wide margin of error plus or minus 12 points 70.7%
Not ranked Kentucky 48% Wide margin of error plus or minus 10.8 points 67.7%
Not ranked Maine 31.9% Wide margin of error plus or minus 26 points 67.1%
Not ranked Massachusetts 52.2% Wide margin of error plus or minus 10.3 points 68.9%
Not ranked Minnesota 62.2% Wide margin of error plus or minus 12.6 points 75.9%
Not ranked Montana 65.5% Wide margin of error plus or minus 33.7 points 69.2%
Not ranked Nebraska 47.8% Wide margin of error plus or minus 20.9 points 67.4%
Not ranked Nevada 57.1% Wide margin of error plus or minus 10.5 points 66.9%
Not ranked New Hampshire 70.8% Wide margin of error plus or minus 40.5 points 71.9%
Not ranked New Mexico 48.7% Wide margin of error plus or minus 21.5 points 66%
Not ranked North Dakota 16% Wide margin of error plus or minus 16.7 points 71.2%
Not ranked Oklahoma 46.9% Wide margin of error plus or minus 13.5 points 59.7%
Not ranked Oregon 78.8% Wide margin of error plus or minus 15.6 points 75.3%
Not ranked Rhode Island 42.9% Wide margin of error plus or minus 14.5 points 70%
Not ranked South Dakota 17.2% Wide margin of error plus or minus 16.6 points 58.9%
Not ranked Utah 67.6% Wide margin of error plus or minus 26.1 points 66.9%
Not ranked Vermont 52.9% Wide margin of error plus or minus 28.8 points 71.7%
Not ranked Washington 49.2% Wide margin of error plus or minus 17.3 points 70%
Not ranked West Virginia 43.4% Wide margin of error plus or minus 12.7 points 59.5%
Not ranked Wisconsin 48% Wide margin of error plus or minus 15.5 points 72.2%
Not ranked Wyoming 30.4% Wide margin of error plus or minus 28.5 points 63.8%

Ranked: the 22 states measured in the November 2024 election with a margin of error of 10 points or less. Places below that line are still listed, with the reason.

Who decides

From you up to Congress. Look up your address above and each step fills in with the people who hold that seat for you.

  1. You and your neighbors Check your registration, know your polling place, and help a neighbor do the same.

    Ask: Who on my street has not checked their registration yet?

  2. Your county commission and county election office Run elections: polling places, hours, early voting sites and poll workers.

    Ask: Where are early voting sites placed, and how long were the lines last time?

  3. Your state legislators and statewide officials Write the voting rules: registration deadlines, ID, mail ballots and district lines.

    Ask: What changed in our voting rules this year, and who asked for the change?

  4. Your members of Congress Write federal voting law and fund state and county election offices.

    Ask: How did you vote on federal money for election offices?

What you can do

  1. This weekCheck your registration and your polling place with your state election office.
  2. The next date that mattersThe next registration deadline set by your state election office.
  3. Where your voice is countedRaise what matters where you live on SourceLine issues. Only confirmed residents are counted, and SourceLine shares the totals, never names, with the body that decides.
Method and sources

Black citizens of voting age who voted. Source: Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, the November 2024 election.

The margin of error is how far the true figure could be from the one shown. Surveys ask some people, not everyone, so smaller places have wider margins. A place with too few people to measure well is listed but not ranked.

Population, voting age population, citizens of voting age, registered voters and people who voted are different counts. Each page says which one it uses.

Who decides: the people named come from SourceLine’s record of officeholders for the address you enter. Where SourceLine hasn’t updated a level for your area yet, that step says so.

About these figures

Every figure on this page shows the year it describes. Public agencies release their numbers on their own schedules, often a year or more after the work of counting is done. The Census Bureau, for example, publishes its five year community survey each December, and the national reading test is given every two years. That is why some figures are not from this year. SourceLine updates each one as soon as the agency publishes it.

For some counties and small towns, SourceLine has not found meeting records online. Where it has not, we add them as they become available. A page that says SourceLine hasn’t updated a record yet means exactly that.