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Stats for Stories: Special Edition 19th Amendment Passed by Congress 100 Years Ago: June 4, 2019

June 04, 2019

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“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied

or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”

According to the National Archives: 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Women's Right to Vote

“Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of agitation and protest. Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered a radical change of the Constitution. Few early supporters lived to see final victory in 1920.”

Presidential Proclamation 1970

Key Stats:

Source: Current Population Survey, November 1980-2016.

Report: Characteristics of Voters in the Presidential Election of 2016, Population Characteristics (October 2018), Figure 5. Composition of American Voters by Sex: Presidential Elections, 1980–2016 (page 7)

Figure 5. Composition of American Voters by Sex: Presidential Elections, 1980–2016 (page 7)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, November 2018.

Table 2. Reported Voting and Registration, by Race, Hispanic Origin, Sex, and Age: November 2018 [<1.0 MB]

Note: The table above is cropped. Click on the image to see the full table.

More Stats:

From Topics / Public Sector:

Voting and Registration

Voting and Registration Visualizations

Electorate Profiles: Selected Characteristics of the Citizen, 18 and Older Population (October 2016)

From the Newsroom:

Press Release: U.S. Census Bureau Releases 2018 Voting and Registration Data (April 2019)

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Stats for Stories: Women’s Equality Day: August 26

From the History staff:

U.S. Census Bureau History: Women's Suffrage (March 2018)

From the Library:

America Counts, Behind the 2018 U.S. Midterm Election Turnout (April 2019)

Characteristics of Voters in the Presidential Election of 2016 (October 2018)

Citizen Voting-Age Population (November 2016), Choose a State to View.

Note: The graphic above shows selected characteristics for the state of Missouri from the 2015 American Community Survey, 1-Year Estimates, and compares its percentages to the United States. Click on the image to see the full graphic.