Pew Research Center released an analysis of party affiliation based off of data collected from more than 25,000 interviews done last year.
The public most often (39 percent) identified themselves as independents in 2014. Democrats (23 percent) and Republicans (23 percent) made up the rest of the population, Pew found. Though this trend has been around for quite some time, that’s the highest percentage of independents in more than 75 years of polling.
Here is the percentage of each demographic group that identifies themselves as Democrat/leaning Democrat or Republican/leaning Republican in one handy chart.
