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August 21, 2025

Election Official Turnover Rates through the 2024 Election

Joshua Ferrer, Daniel M. Thompson, Grace Klinefelter, Rachel Orey
Bipartisan Policy Center

Last spring, the Bipartisan Policy Center partnered with Joshua Ferrer and Daniel M. Thompson of the University of California, Los Angeles, to examine nationwide turnover rates of chief local election officials since 2000. The report found that turnover rose from 28% in 2004 to 39% in 2022.

Now, a new update to the report examines turnover rates through 2024, which saw the highest rate of turnover yet: 41% of election officials administering the presidential election were different from those in charge of running the presidential election four years prior.

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