According to the United States Elections Project, a database about the United States electoral system, 49.3 percent of the voting-eligible population turned out to vote in 2018, with more than 116 million ballots. That’s the highest voter turnout percentage for a mid-term election since 1914, when 50.4 percent of eligible voters went to the polls. It surpasses 1966, the previous high, when turnout was 48.7 percent.
