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He, Richard

As American elections gain controversy and more people begin questioning how these outcomes formulate, there is a need for further analysis into how a major factor affects them: age. Many past studies analysed how nationwide age averages can play a role in changing outcomes. However, they do not look deeper into the state level at how these ages affect the elections. The purpose of this study is to analyse and fill in the present knowledge gap in how age affects party vote percentages at a more local state level. This study’s data was retrieved from datasets from the Harvard Dataverse and the US Census Bureau. This data was then sorted and put into a Spearman correlation analysis that resulted in an insignificant relationship with a p-value of 0.6 for both the Republican and Democratic parties. Despite the results not matching many studies, this was also expected by others due to multiple other socioeconomic factors that play their respective roles throughout America’s complex political environment. Therefore, additional analyses can be of great interest to determine how these other socioeconomic factors, such as race and gender, can shift these elections to their outcomes.

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University of British Columbia. WRDS 150B; University of British Columbia. Undergraduate Prize in Library Research

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0435283

Business, Sauder School of

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