2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumCan anyone find % of voters in Repub primary who self-identified as Ind or Dem?
I am also looking for what percent of those who self-identified as Independest each Republican candidate got.
I need these numbers so I can estimate the number of MI primary voters who self-identified as Independent voted for each candidate, across both Republican and Democratic candidates.
It was easy to find out that 28% of Democratic primary voters self-identified as Independents, with 70% those voting for Sanders.
What I can't find is the percent of Republican primary voters who self-identified as independent, and how their votes broke down across candidates. I've done lots of googling, but haven't been able to find this anywhere. I figured I'd take a shot at seeing if anyone else could find it.
Inquiring minds want to know.
P.S. I'd also like to estimate relative cross-over That is, the percentage of self-identified Repubs who crossed over to vote in the Democratic primary and vice versa. Once again, the required info is available on the Dem side. (I have a report that 3% of voters in Dem primary self-identified as Repub.) What I can't find is percent of voters in the Republican primary who self-identify as Dems. (And if it exists, it would be great to know the breakdown by candidate, but I can't even find out how the self-identified Republicans broke down on the Democratic side.)
pat_k
(9,313 posts)BernieforPres2016
(3,017 posts)You should be able to get what you want from this. The Republican data is way down below the Democratic data. I did a few calculations myself.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/primaries/MI
Both sides showed 97% reporting, but I'm treating the numbers as total.
Total votes: Republican primary: 1,300,278 Democratic primary: 1,191,442
Independent votes in Republican primary: 403,086
Independent votes in Democratic primary: 321,689
Independent votes by candidate across both parties:
Bernie 228,400
Trump 145,110
Kasich 108,883
Hillary 90,072
Cruz 88,679
Rubio 36,278
pat_k
(9,313 posts)Will look more closely when i get home.
pat_k
(9,313 posts)Will look more closely when i get home.