Baby boomers are no longer majority of American voters

The baby-boomer stranglehold on American elections has ended. While baby boomers still make up the largest voting block—35% of all votes cast in the 2016 general election—they are no longer the majority of voters, Courthouse News reports. According to an analysis from the Pew Research Center, millennials and Generation Xers cast 69.6 million votes in the 2016 election, good enough for a slight majority of the 137.5 million total votes cast.

"The shift has occurred as millennials accounted for a growing share of the electorate and as those in the Silent and Greatest Generations aged and died," Pew senior researcher Richard Fry says. Millennials are also aging into voters: The number of millennials who voted in 2016 was nearly double the number that voted in 2008, CBS News reports.

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