minority voters
Marginalized voting bloc
Minority voters are members of racial, ethnic, or other demographic minority groups participating in elections.
The term appears frequently in discussions of voting rights, redistricting, and electoral access: The new district lines diluted the power of minority voters.
In American political discourse, it typically refers to Black, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American voters, groups historically subject to voter suppression efforts.
- African AmericansAmericans of African descent
- polling placesDesignated voting locations
- long linesExtended waiting formations
- Jim Crow lawsPost-Reconstruction racial separation statutes
- party platformsOfficial political position statements
religious minorities · language barriers · grassroots organizing · civic engagement · local elections · civil rights movements · political campaigns · proportional representation · national elections · poll taxes · swing states · misinformation campaigns · gerrymandering · preclearance
- Political Inclusionpolitical participation, underrepresentation, ethnic representation, proportional representation, disenfranchisement
- voter groups
- votersconstituent, nonvoter, constituents, electors, turnout