With both parties about to head to key battleground states for their National Conventions, the time is ripe to delve into how these states—and 6 other crucial battlegrounds—have changed since the last time around. In our newest analysis of the numbers in the 8 presidential battleground states with partisan voter registration, we find:
- Democratic registration is down 800,329, or 5.2%;
- Republican registration is down 78,985, or 0.7%; and,
- Independent registration is up 486,677, or 6.4%.
Read more in The I’s Have It: Pre-Convention Voter Registration Analysis

