Following the hotly contested 2016 presidential election, California has set a new voter registration record, with 19.43 million residents now signed up to vote. The state saw a net gain of more than 1.7 million new voters since the same report was released in February 2015, and a record 14.6 million California voters cast ballots in the November elections. Republicans trailed Democrats in registration by more than 18%, according to the California Secretary of State’s official voter registration report released Wednesday. Over the past decade, Democratic voter registration has remained relatively the same percentage-wise, increasing by just over 2% since February 2007. As of Feb. 10, an estimated 77.9% of Californians who were eligible to vote have registered, according to the report.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 22, 2017 20:18 UTC