The ranks of voters without political party affiliations continued to grow in California, according to data released Tuesday by Secretary of State Debra Bowen.
Information collected 60 days before the Nov. 4 election showed 23.1% of the state’s more than 17.6 million registered voters declined to align themselves with a party, up from 21.2% shortly before the June 3 primary. Republican Party registration continued to decline slightly, down to 28.23% from last spring’s 28.4%. Democratic Party registration, which also has been dropping but less dramatically than for Republicans, held roughly steady at 43.43%.
More than 4 million voters, an all-time high, listed themselves as “no party preference” on their registration forms.
The full 60-Day Report of Registration is available on the secretary of state’s website, www.sos.ca.gov.
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