Political party affiliation

partyid

Source

General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org

Details

Question 56. Generally speaking, do you usually think of yourself as a Republican, Democrat, Independent, or what?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	independent (neither, no response)	independent, close to democrat	independent, close to republican	no answer	not very strong democrat	not very strong republican	other party	strong democrat	strong republican	don't know	Total
1972	159	160	100	6	436	231	69	326	126	-	1613
1973	143	192	141	11	383	218	62	231	123	-	1504
1974	144	207	106	13	373	216	59	246	110	10	1484
1975	211	211	122	5	349	236	12	251	93	-	1490
1976	241	207	105	4	403	214	4	225	96	-	1499
1977	175	200	130	12	400	226	5	275	107	-	1530
1978	221	199	135	5	389	246	10	216	111	-	1532
1980	246	193	123	3	374	218	9	188	114	-	1468
1982	226	243	152	9	484	214	13	382	137	-	1860
1983	192	218	141	6	382	256	13	246	145	-	1599
1984	163	209	156	8	280	245	22	265	125	-	1473
1985	146	159	157	5	351	266	17	244	189	-	1534
1986	187	158	150	3	336	241	9	245	141	-	1470
1987	199	211	148	10	395	266	15	422	153	-	1819
1988	186	180	140	-	313	275	5	236	146	-	1481
1989	192	134	119	5	335	330	13	234	175	-	1537
1990	155	133	143	4	315	280	12	170	160	-	1372
1991	188	131	169	6	319	285	14	224	181	-	1517
1993	205	190	158	9	321	299	17	227	180	-	1606
1994	369	341	282	49	644	519	44	423	321	-	2992
1996	457	356	258	6	577	500	43	400	307	-	2904
1998	477	349	244	9	597	484	63	370	239	-	2832
2000	566	325	261	12	507	399	48	414	285	-	2817
2002	528	267	199	36	515	449	48	408	315	-	2765
2004	471	281	239	12	504	425	29	455	396	-	2812
2006	997	527	327	26	736	637	65	700	495	-	4510
2008	322	262	162	13	331	303	38	390	202	-	2023
2010	360	265	197	16	348	277	49	348	184	-	2044
2012	373	235	157	14	343	250	54	356	192	-	1974
2014	502	337	249	25	406	292	62	419	245	1	2538
2016	473	405	292	32	496	364	72	463	270	-	2867
2018	414	307	259	33	352	272	77	379	255	-	2348
2021	817	471	327	32	541	384	114	822	524	-	4032
2022	835	400	330	35	451	361	106	595	431	-	3544
2024	829	340	274	41	372	378	83	532	460	-	3309
Total	12369	9003	6652	515	14658	11056	1375	12327	7733	11	75699

Values

• 0 strong democrat

• 1 not very strong democrat

• 2 independent, close to democrat

• 3 independent (neither, no response)

• 4 independent, close to republican

• 5 not very strong republican

• 6 strong republican

• 7 other party

• NA(d) don't know

• NA(i) iap

• NA(j) I don't have a job

• NA(m) dk, na, iap

• NA(n) no answer

• NA(p) not imputable

• NA(r) refused

• NA(s) skipped on web

• NA(u) uncodeable

• NA(x) not available in this release

• NA(y) not available in this year

• NA(z) see codebook