82% of White Evangelicals Still Voted Republican — but Only 17% of the Electorate | 11/5/26

Pat Gray Unleashed · Nov 5, 2026 · 1h 40m

The 2026 midterm exit polls just dropped, and the numbers on faith and voting are impossible to ignore. White born-again evangelicals still went 82% for Republicans — exactly the same as 2024 — but their share of the total electorate fell from 23% to 17%. That is not a rounding error. That is a smaller base doing the same heavy lifting while the rest of the religious map shifted. Protestants slipped from 63% Republican to 59%. Catholics, who gave Trump 59% in 2024, split almost evenly this time (49% Republican, 50% Democrat). Religious “nones” grew from 24% to 27% of voters and backed…