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Yale Youth Poll

The Yale Youth Poll is America’s Largest Poll Studying Young Adults

Spring 2025 Results

Spring 2025 Toplines

Results from survey of 4,100 registered voters, including 2,025 voters aged 18-29, enabling a comparison of young voters to the electorate as a whole. Full results available here. 

  • Party Split Within the Youth Vote: 18–21 Lean GOP, 22–29 Favor Democrats

    22–29-year-olds favored Democrats by 6.4 points; 18–21-year-olds favored Republicans by 11.7.

  • Trump, Vance, Musk are Unpopular with Everyone

    Among voters overall, Trump’s favorability is 46.5-52.7 (-6.2); Vance -13.5, and Musk -18.9. Among voters under 30, Trump is at -17.9, Vance -30, and Musk -34.7.

  • Voters Support Endowment Taxes, Pell Grant Applicability Expansion; Split on Institutional Neutrality by Age

    Young voters more likely to support campus statements (+10.5) and test-optional admissions (+9.9); both groups support Pell expansion (87.9%) and taxing university endowments (55.8%). Young voters rate elite universities more favorably than others (+7 vs. -4.2).

  • Generational Divide on Trans Athletes, Youth Transition Treatments

    Majorities oppose trans athletes in women’s sports; young voters more supportive, especially for youth sports (evenly split vs. 60% oppose overall). On treatments, 61.1% of young voters support access at 18–21 vs. 50% overall; 47.8% oppose access at 13–17 vs. 62% overall.

About the Poll

Spring 2025 Poll

The Yale Youth Poll surveyed an online sample of 4,100 registered voters from April 1 to April 3, with an under-30 oversample of 2,025. The survey was conducted in English, and its post-weighting 95% CI margin of error is ±1.9 percentage points for the full sample and ±1.8 percentage points for the youth sample.

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