My view from north of your border

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50. You will not find such a source, because only 31 states enable voters to register by party.

And given the opportunity to register by party, many voters choose not to do so.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/27/state-party-registration_n_5399977.html


To help prepare for our coverage, HuffPost’s Stephen Calabria compiled the most recent official registration statistics from 31 states plus the District of Columbia that enable voters to pick a party upon registering to vote. One immediately obvious characteristic of the data is the huge variability in percentage of voters who remain unaffiliated or unclassified, from a low of 8 percent in Kentucky to a high of 92 percent in Arkansas. One cause for that variability is the degree to which individual states limit primary voting to those formally affiliated with a particular party. These differences also help explain why voters often say one thing when asked how they are registered and another when asked what party they feel closer to. [Registration data spreadsheet]