The brief showed voter participation of youth (age 18-24) was dramatically lower in 2014, starting with a nearly non-existent showing in the June 2014 primary, followed by a poor showing in November. Only 8.2 percent of California’s eligible youth voted, as compared to 18.5 percent in the 2010 general election. This translated into only 285,000 of 3.5 million eligible youth who cast a ballot.