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Estimated Felon Disenfranchisement Totals

Our chart below shows the estimated disenfranchised felon totals for each state and the District of Columbia, as of 12/31/04. Blank squares indicate that the state does not disenfranchise those population groups.

State Total Voting Population Prisoners Parolees Probationers Jail Inmates Est. Ex-Felons Total Est. Disenfranchised Total Est. % of Voting Pop. Disenfranchised
1.Alabama 3,392,779 30,628 9,098 30,387 1,418 178,516 250,046 7.37%
2.Alaska 459,529 4,658 927 5,083 463 11,132 2.42%
3.Arizona 4,061,499 33,103 9,291 55,259 1,315 77,136 176,103 4.34%
4.Arkansas 2,043,701 13,699 15,461 28,532 57,691 2.82%
5.California 26,064,483 167,612 107,580 7,932 283,124 1.09%
6.Colorado 3,397,937 20,537 6,920 1,180 28,636 0.84%
7.Connecticut 2,647,997 19,012 3,090 752 22,854 0.86%
8.Delaware 618,649 6,808 508 10,818 516 28,028 46,677 7.54%
9.District of Columbia 454,981 374 356 730* 0.16%*
10.Florida 13,094,945 84,210 4,694 127,794 5,565 957,423 1,179,687 9.01%
11.Georgia 6,387,956 46,972 23,530 209,442 3,664 283,607 4.44%
12.Hawaii 960,466 6,265 264 6,530 0.68%
13.Idaho 994,305 6,034 2,767 8,265 350 17,416 1.75%
14.Illinois 9,422,938 44,156 1,669 45,825 0.49%
15.Indiana 4,591,742 24,615 1,630 26,245 0.57%
16.Iowa 2,250,634 8,700 3,446 10,632 330 98,311 121,418 5.39%
17.Kansas 2,028,426 9,333 4,146 13,907 477 27,863 1.37%
18.Kentucky 3,123,645 17,470 9,609 29,311 1,183 128,775 186,348 5.97%
19.Louisiana 3,318,779 36,047 25,065 34,366 2,712 98,190 2.96%
20.Maine 1,018,982 0 0.00%
21.Maryland 4,130,817 23,434 14,223 20,482 1,111 52,272 111,521 2.70%
22.Massachusetts 4,946,304 10,140 10,120 0.20%
23.Michigan 7,541,065 48,173 1,615 49,788 0.66%
24.Minnesota 3,810,605 8,675 3,614 25,768 727 38,784 1.02%
25.Mississippi 2,120,013 23,669 1,816 21,967 1,153 97,550 146,155 6.89%
26.Missouri 4,297,142 30,515 17,123 45,305 810 93,752 2.18%
27.Montana 701,847 3,942 203 4,145 0.59%
28.Nebraska 1,298,451 4,024 736 5,385 239 51,612 61,996 4.77%
29.Nevada 1,659,757 10,606 4,287 6,987 547 21,166 43,594 2.63%
30.New Hampshire 981,456 2,417 170 2,587 0.26%
31.New Jersey 6,506,779 26,619 13,950 85,186 1,423 127,178 1.95%
32.New Mexico 1,372,580 6,466 2,953 8,002 658 18,080 1.32%
33.New York 14,657,367 63,372 55,741 2,904 122,018 0.83%
34.North Carolina 6,319,805 34,298 216 37,136 1,463 73,113 1.16%
35.North Dakota 487,010 1,380 86 1,466 0.30%
36.Ohio 8,620,509 43,927 1,560 45,487 0.53%
37.Oklahoma 2,633,289 22,844 4,047 21,962 688 49,541 1.88%
38.Oregon 2,710,424 13,376 852 14,228 0.52%
39.Pennsylvania 9,534,761 41,626 41,626 0.44%
40.Rhode Island 832,115 3,534 400 16,622 237 20,793 2.50%
41.South Carolina 3,123,648 23,719 2,953 20,904 946 48,523 1.55%
42.South Dakota 568,883 3,138 133 3,271 0.58%
43.Tennessee 4,447,269 25,835 7,983 32,288 2,254 25,899 94,258 2.12%
44.Texas 15,878,347 171,918 101,453 243,413 6,103 522,887 3.29%
45.Utah 1,608,540 5,970 5,970 0.37%
46.Vermont 481,661 0 0.00%
47.Virginia 5,587,563 35,172 5,158 37,463 2,153 297,901 377,847 6.76%
48.Washington 4,634,864 16,229 116 120,014 1,173 29,785 167,316 3.61%
49.West Virginia 1,419,453 4,982 1,308 4,159 352 10,800 0.76%
50.Wisconsin 4,139,405 23,134 12,911 24,873 1,423 62,342 1.51%
51.Wyoming 380,169 2,018 586 3,171 118 14,304 20,198 5.31%
TOTALS 217,766,271 1,315,387 477,704 1,344,883 62,878 2,058,678 5,259,530 2.42%
Total Voting Population Prisoners Parolees Probationers Jail Inmates Est. Ex-Felons Total Est. Disenfranchised Total Est. % of Voting Pop. Disenfranchised
* Does not include the 6,677 D.C. prisoners under the jurisdiction of the Federal Bureau of Prisons

Data is compiled from a variety of sources; Jeff Manza, Ph.D., Christopher Uggen, Ph.D., and The Sentencing Project.

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