{
  "name": "early-voters-by-party",
  "title": "Early voters by party, national, 11 days out",
  "description": "The national party split of early voters 11 days before Election Day in 2026, 2024 and 2022, as published by the NBC News / TargetSmart early-vote tracker.",
  "updated": "2026-10-23",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0",
  "licenceUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "attribution": "Carmena’s Overton & Electoral Research",
  "attribution_required": true,
  "citation": "Carmena’s Overton & Electoral Research. “Early voters by party, national, 11 days out” (CSV). Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Licensed CC BY 4.0.",
  "csv": "https://carmenaresearch.com/data/public/early-voters-by-party.csv",
  "page": "https://carmenaresearch.com/data/#early-voters-by-party",
  "columns": [
    {
      "name": "cycle",
      "description": "Election year"
    },
    {
      "name": "as_of",
      "description": "Date of the reading"
    },
    {
      "name": "dem_pct",
      "description": "Democratic share of early voters, %"
    },
    {
      "name": "rep_pct",
      "description": "Republican share, %"
    },
    {
      "name": "other_pct",
      "description": "Other share, %"
    },
    {
      "name": "dem_minus_rep",
      "description": "Democratic minus Republican share, points"
    }
  ],
  "caveats": [
    "Party is not vote choice.",
    "Democrats have voted early in larger numbers since 2020.",
    "TargetSmart models party in 21 states; on Oct 23, 2026 they held 48% of early votes.",
    "NBC publishes whole percentages, so each share is precise to about half a point."
  ],
  "rows": [
    {
      "cycle": 2026,
      "as_of": "2026-10-23",
      "dem_pct": 49,
      "rep_pct": 34,
      "other_pct": 17,
      "dem_minus_rep": 15
    },
    {
      "cycle": 2024,
      "as_of": "2024-10-25",
      "dem_pct": 42,
      "rep_pct": 40,
      "other_pct": 18,
      "dem_minus_rep": 2
    },
    {
      "cycle": 2022,
      "as_of": "2022-10-28",
      "dem_pct": 47,
      "rep_pct": 35,
      "other_pct": 18,
      "dem_minus_rep": 12
    }
  ]
}