Voter Participation

Voter Participation measures the proportion of residents who are eligible to vote who voted in the last election. Eligible residents are, U.S. citizens age 18 years or older who have not been convicted of a felony or who have a felony conviction record discharged, expired or completed. Voter participation was calculated using data from the City of Minneapolis Election and Voter Services about voter participation in the 2013 General U.S. Election.

Exercising the right to vote is a proxy for engagement with the larger community. Community engagement is linked to factors such as social support. Social support affects health. People involved in electoral participation are less likely to report poor or fair health. Voter Participation is in the Social Cohesion domain.

Neighborhoodsort descending Indicator Value Rank
Armatage 38.3% 13
Audubon Park 34.2% 25
Bancroft 33.5% 28
Beltrami 24.5% 47
Bottineau 28.3% 37
Bryant 19.6% 61
Bryn - Mawr 47.0% 6
Calhoun Area Residents Action Group (CARAG) 25.5% 44
Camden Industrial 0.0% 86
Cedar - Isles - Dean 36.6% 18
Cedar Riverside 25.3% 46
Central 16.2% 71
Cleveland 19.6% 61
Columbia Park 22.4% 54
Como 11.1% 83
Cooper 43.8% 10
Corcoran 26.8% 42
Diamond Lake 35.6% 21
Downtown East 37.2% 17
Downtown West 19.8% 59
East Calhoun (ECCO) 29.1% 34
East Harriet 47.5% 5
East Isles 31.3% 30
East Phillips 13.3% 79
Elliot Park 12.1% 81
Ericsson 37.8% 15
Field 34.1% 26
Folwell 16.0% 72
Fulton 49.2% 3
Hale 42.7% 11
Harrison 14.9% 76
Hawthorne 15.5% 73
Hiawatha 36.4% 19
Holland 18.2% 64
Howe 38.0% 14
Humboldt Industrial Area 0.0% 86
Jordan 16.8% 69
Keewaydin 35.6% 21
Kenny 44.4% 8
Kenwood 54.0% 1
King Field 37.7% 16
Lind - Bohanon 15.5% 73
Linden Hills 44.9% 7
Logan Park 23.4% 52
Longfellow 27.9% 39
Loring Park 19.8% 59
Lowry Hill 36.4% 19
Lowry Hill East 21.3% 55
Lyndale 18.1% 65
Lynnhurst 52.7% 2
Marcy Holmes 13.0% 80
Marshall Terrace 22.6% 53
McKinley 11.2% 82
Mid - City Industrial 10.1% 84
Midtown Phillips 14.7% 77
Minnehaha 35.2% 23
Morris Park 23.9% 51
Near - North 20.2% 58
Nicollet Island - East Bank 28.9% 35
North Loop 26.9% 41
Northeast Park 25.9% 43
Northrop 40.5% 12
Page 47.7% 4
Phillips West 21.3% 55
Powderhorn Park 29.6% 32
Prospect Park - East River Road 15.4% 75
Regina 29.3% 33
Seward 34.1% 26
Sheridan 28.3% 37
Shingle Creek 18.1% 65
St. Anthony East 24.5% 47
St. Anthony West 34.7% 24
Standish 33.0% 29
Steven's Square - Loring Heights 17.7% 67
Sumner - Glenwood (Heritage Park) 14.6% 78
Tangletown 44.1% 9
University of Minnesota 4.6% 85
Ventura Village 17.4% 68
Victory 27.7% 40
Waite Park 29.7% 31
Webber - Camden 18.4% 63
Wenonah 24.5% 47
West Calhoun 25.5% 44
Whittier 16.4% 70
Willard - Hay 21.2% 57
Windom 24.3% 50
Windom Park 28.5% 36

Key Citations:
1. Cummins, S., M. Stafford, S. Macintyre, M. Marmot, and A. Ellaway. “Neighbourhood environment and its association with self-rated health: evidence from Scotland and England.” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 59, no. 3 (March 2005): 207–213.

2. Kim, Daniel, and Ichiro Kawachi. “A multilevel analysis of key forms of community- and individual-level social capital as predictors of self-rated health in the United States.” Journal of Urban Health-Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 83, no. 5 (September 2006): 813–826.

Stretch versions: The basic version of the voter participation data will be for precincts. The “stretch” version would be to geocode the addresses and create census-tract level indicators.