Democrats facing crisis as more than 2M voters leave party in four years
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The Democratic Party is bleeding registered voters, suffering a 4.5 million-name loss that could take years to recover from, according to a new report.
Between the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections, Democrats lost about 2.1 million voters across the 30 states that track registration by political party, according to a New York Times analysis of data gathered by the L2 tracking firm.
Over the same period, the Republican Party gained 2.4 million registered voters.
Officially, there are still more registered Democrats than Republicans nationwide, but that number is incomplete because blue states like California and New York allow voters to register by party — as does the District of Columbia — while reliably red states like Texas, Missouri and Ohio do not.
Most alarmingly for Democrats, the decline is nationwide, with the US seeing more new voters registering with the GOP in 2024 for the first time in six years.
Democrats also saw their registered voter advantage dwindle in four 2024 battleground states — Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina and Pennsylvania — all of which President Trump carried this past Nov. 5.
Kentucky registrations
The July 2025 statistics for voter registration in Kentucky shows that there are 1,388,758 registered Democrats, 1,584,157 Republicans and 178,624 Other registrations that include: Independent, Libertarian, Green, Constitution, Reform, and Socialist groups.
