Seven in 10 millennial women identify with the Democratic Party vs. just 23 percent who identify as Republicans, a 29-point swing among registered voters since 2004, according to the latest Pew Research survey.
The 47-point difference is the largest gap of any demographic group in Pew's survey of party affiliation trends.
By comparison, millennial men have remained a constant since 2004. 49 percent lean Democrat, while 41 percent lean Republican, just a two-point uptick GOP and a two-point tick down on Dems during that timeframe, according to Pew.
The next closest disparity in a demographic group is men of the Silent Generation, where 57 percent lean Republican, an 8-point uptick since 1994, vs. 38 percent who lean Democrat, according to Pew.
Overall, 37 percent of registered voters identify as independent (up 7 points since 1994), 33 percent as Democrat, and 26 percent as Republican (down 6 points since 1994), according to Pew. Democrats have held steady during that 23-year period.
Other key results from Pew's massive survey:
- 56 percent of women overall lean Democrat, up 8 points since 1994.
- 37 percent of women lean Republican, down 5 points since 1994.
- 51 percent of whites overall lean Republican, unchanged since 1994.
- 43 percent of whites lean Democrat, up 4 points since 1994.
- 63 percent with postgraduate experience lean Democrat, up 16 points.
- 31 percent with postgraduate experience lean Republican, down 14 points.
- 77 percent of white evangelicals lean Republican, up 16 points since 1994.
- 18 percent of white evangelicals lean Democrat, down 13 points since 1994.
The analysis of changes in party identification over time is based on a compilation of 257 surveys and nearly 350,000 interviews among registered voters conducted by the Pew Research Center from January 1994 to December 2017.
The margin of error on 10,245 interviews for 2017 is plus or minus 1.1 percent.
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