County-level association of COVID-19 mortality with 2020 United States presidential voting.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The objective of this study was to assess the association between United States county-level COVID-19 mortality and changes in presidential voting between 2016 and 2020.

Study design

The study design is a county-level ecological study.

Methods

We analysed county-level population-weighted differences in partisan vote change, voter turnout and sociodemographic and health status characteristics across pre-election COVID-19 mortality quartiles. We estimated a population-weighted linear regression of the 2020-2016 Democratic vote change testing the significance of differences between quartiles of COVID-19 mortality, controlling for other county characteristics.

Results

The overall change in the 2020-2016 Democratic vote was +2.9% but ranged from a +4.3% in

SUBMITTER: Parzuchowski AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9451615 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature