More Than 6.6 Million Hispanics Voted in the 2010 Election: Pew Report

The number of Hispanics voting last year was up, but is still not a very large percentage of the people eligible. - - Donna Poisl

by Mark Hugo Lopez

A record number of Hispanics turned out to vote in last year's election, according to an analysis of new Census Bureau data by the Pew Hispanic Center. Rapid population growth fueled Hispanics' increasing electoral participation, says the report.

More than 6.6 million Hispanics cast votes in the 2010 election and the group also accounted for a large share of the electorate in 2010 than in any previous midterm election, representing 6.9 percent of all voters, up from 5.8 percent in 2006, according to the Pew Hisapanic Center.
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