And 34% of independents were people of color, double the share from 2012. The two-party system still dominates in the ballot box, as most voters still consistently vote for candidates from one party.

More than 30,000 North Carolina voters will soon lose their political party affiliation after top candidates for several political parties failed to receive enough votes in the 2024 elections.

Independent and third-party voter registration is growing, largely at the expense of Democrats, an NBC News analysis of two decades of voter registration data shows.

The state of Illinois, where the former Cardinal Robert Prevost is registered to vote, does not register voters by party affiliation, as suggested in social media posts declaring that the new Pope ...

The Republican Party spent decades working to put Supreme Court justices on the court who would overturn Roe v. Wade. Part of that project was electing Donald Trump in 2016.

Kentucky state Sen. Robin Webb switched her party affiliation from Democrat to Republican. Webb cited the Democratic Party's leftward shift and focus on policies that harm her rural constituents ...

In a coming book, Ms. Jean-Pierre will describe a “betrayal” by her party when Joseph R. Biden Jr. ended his re-election campaign. Democrats were quick to criticize her.