With WalletHub’s National Voter Representation Index at 87 percent and very different demographic groups supporting Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report examining the States with the Best & Worst Representation on Election Day.
To identify those states, WalletHub’s analysts compared the distribution of the 50 states’ voters to the distribution of their electorates by key demographic characteristics, including age, race and gender.
| Best Overall Representation | Worst Overall Representation |
| 1. Maryland (94.56%) | 41. Idaho (85.23%) |
| 2. Virginia (94.13%) | 42. Nebraska (85.08%) |
| 3. Indiana (93.21%) | 43. Hawaii (84.99%) |
| 4. Pennsylvania (92.97%) | 44. Kentucky (84.95%) |
| 5. Minnesota (91.46%) | 45. Illinois (84.11%) |
| 6. Oregon (91.45%) | 46. Washington (83.90%) |
| 7. Massachusetts (91.37%) | 47. Florida (83.62%) |
| 8. Nevada (91.18%) | 48. Tennessee (83.58%) |
| 9. Wyoming (90.59%) | 49. Kansas (82.35%) |
| 10. New Jersey (90.46%) | 50. South Dakota (78.87%) |
| Best Racial Representation | Worst Racial Representation |
| 1. Virginia (95.29%) | 46. Illinois (68.60%) |
| 2. Maryland (93.60%) | 47. Kansas (67.93%) |
| 3. South Carolina (91.23%) | 48. Florida (67.31%) |
| 4. Indiana (91.20%) | 49. Kentucky (60.15%) |
| 5. Nevada (90.43%) | 50. South Dakota (59.83%) |
| Best Age Representation | Worst Age Representation |
| 1. Kentucky (97.11%) | 46. Arizona (82.18%) |
| 2. Minnesota (93.85%) | 47. Texas (81.57%) |
| 3. Rhode Island (93.38%) | 48. South Dakota (81.49%) |
| 4. Pennsylvania (93.06%) | 49. New Mexico (79.86%) |
| 5. Maryland (92.97%) | 50. Hawaii (77.02%) |
| Best Gender Representation | Worst Gender Representation |
| 1. Indiana (99.94%) | 46. Kansas (93.88%) |
| 2. Oregon (99.70%) | 47. South Carolina (93.84%) |
| 3. North Carolina (99.62%) | 48. New Mexico (93.56%) |
| 4. Utah (99.50%) | 49. Arizona (93.54%) |
| 5. Massachusetts (99.41%) | 50. Washington (92.34%) |
To view the full report and your state’s ranking, please visit:
https://wallethub.com/edu/voter-representation-index/24653/
