Table 5.  Percent Reported Voted in Congressional Elections
                  by Age and Gender:  November 1966 to 1994

        Source:  U.S. Bureau of the Census
        Release date:  August 1996


        (Numbers in thousands)
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                       18 yrs and over      18 - 44 yrs      45 yrs
        Year            Men     Women      Men     Women      Men
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        1994
        Number           91,006   99,260   53,406   54,783   37,601
        Percent voted      44.7     45.3     33.9     35.9     60.2

        1990
        Number           86,621   95,496   51,695   53,677   34,927
        Percent voted      44.6     45.4     34.6     37.2     59.5

        1986
        Number           82,364   91,526   49,558   51,795   32,806
        Percent voted      45.8     46.1     35.3     37.2     61.6

        1982
        Number           78,046   87,437   46,656   49,049   31,389
        Percent voted      48.7     48.4     38.7     39.7     63.7

        1978
        Number           71,465   80,181   41,228   43,986   30,238
        Percent voted      46.6     45.3     36.2     37.2     60.7

        1974
        Number           66,393   74,906   37,260   40,123   29,133
        Percent voted      46.2     43.4     36.2     36.0     59.0

        1970
        Number           56,431   64,270   28,583   31,503   27,848
        Percent voted      56.8     52.7     47.8     46.7     66.1

        1966
        Number           52,799   60,001   26,290   29,522   26,509
        Percent voted      58.2     50.3     50.1     47.8     66.1
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        Note:  Data are for persons of voting age, 21 years old and
               in most States prior to 1972.

        Source: For years prior to 1994, Current Population Reports,
        Series P20, Nos. 174, 228, 293, 344, 383, 414, and 453.