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title: "Election Reflection: Young women are our MVPs"
description: In the 2020 election, young people voted at rates we have never seen - from 14% of the electorate in Michigan to 21% of the electorate in Georgia.
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# [Election Reflection: Young women are our MVPs](https://ignitenational.org/blog/election-reflection-young-women-are-our-mvps)

 Written by [Dr. Anne Moses](https://ignitenational.org/blog/author/dr.-anne-moses) | Nov 10, 2020

What we know thus far is that young people voted at rates we have never seen - from 14% of the electorate in Michigan to a whopping 21% of the electorate in Georgia.*

***More exciting for us is that 98% of IGNITE women voted! ***And a third of these young women were first-time voters.

Equally exciting is that ***almost 60% of IGNITE women volunteered an average of 40 hours*** this election season. 

Turning out the vote is a national effort, and IGNITE is thrilled to be a leader in mobilizing young women.

***Our #IGNITEtheVote campaign reached 6.5 million young people****, *and over 50,000 Americans sought out voting resources from IGNITE. 

Decades of research shows that young women vote at 6 points higher than their male peers; we are certain when the 2020 election is fully counted this record will be shattered as well. 

Thank you for being a part of the IGNITE community. Together we are propelling young women to ***power ***- where they belong.

 

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