--- title: Google Searches of 'Register to Vote' in Spanish Skyrocketed description: Searches of "registrarse para votar" in the U.S. rose 2200% this week, especially after the debate. canonical: https://time.com/4511633/google-election-spanish-register-to-vote/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-28T16:24:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:44:13.178Z article:section: Politics og:title: Search Interest in Voter Registration by Spanish Speakers Has Skyrocketed og:description: After the first presidential debate og:url: https://time.com/4511633/google-election-spanish-register-to-vote/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2465a399237a9470/6988a7762dce01d5389eac6e/us-voter-registration-day-reminder-5701453076234240-hp.gif?branch=production&width=356&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 356 og:image:height: 200 og:image:alt: us-voter-registration-day-reminder-5701453076234240-hp.gif og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Search Interest in Voter Registration by Spanish Speakers Has Skyrocketed twitter:description: After the first presidential debate twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2465a399237a9470/6988a7762dce01d5389eac6e/us-voter-registration-day-reminder-5701453076234240-hp.gif?branch=production&width=356&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Search Interest in Voter Registration by Spanish Speakers Skyrocketed After the Debate > Sponsored content. 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Google by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Sep 28, 2016 4:24 PM UTC Spanish speakers in the United States were extremely interested in registering to vote this week, according to Google. Searches of “registrarse para votar” (Spanish for “register to vote”) rose 2200% in the past week on Google, peaking after Monday’s [first presidential debate](http://time.com/4511258/how-donald-trump-is-handling-the-debate-loss/). Searches in English grew by just 430%.  Google While Google search data isn’t entirely predictive, it can provide useful insight for what voters are [asking in their internet browsers](http://time.com/4229252/google-twitter-presidential-elections-predictions-analysis/). The candidate most searched for by Spanish speakers was Democrat Hillary Clinton, who had 86% of the Google searches containing “votar por” (Spanish for “vote for”) compared to Trump’s 14% of searches.  Google So many Americans have turned to the search engine for voting-related questions that Google launched an [enhanced search feature](http://time.com/4452833/search-how-to-vote-google/), which it made [available in Spanish](https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2016/09/iregistered-to-vote-have-you.html) on Monday, that offers state-by-state information on getting to the polls when users search “how to vote” or “register to vote.” Google has been making an active push to get users involved in the election, with the search giant participating in National Voter Registration Day through a [Google Doodle](http://time.com/4507570/google-doodle-voter-registration-day/) and [a partnership](http://time.com/4508574/national-voter-registration-day-uber-google/) with Uber. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4511633/google-election-spanish-register-to-vote/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4511633/google-election-spanish-register-to-vote/"},"headline":"Search Interest in Voter Registration by Spanish Speakers Skyrocketed After the Debate","datePublished":"2016-09-28T16:24:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:44:13.178Z","description":"Searches of \"registrarse para votar\" rose 2200%","url":"https://time.com/4511633/google-election-spanish-register-to-vote/","keywords":["2016 Election","Tech","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election","Google","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2465a399237a9470/6988a7762dce01d5389eac6e/us-voter-registration-day-reminder-5701453076234240-hp.gif?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2465a399237a9470/6988a7762dce01d5389eac6e/us-voter-registration-day-reminder-5701453076234240-hp.gif?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"us-voter-registration-day-reminder-5701453076234240-hp.gif","caption":"On the eve of National Voter Registration Day, Google is taking the opportunity to prompt voters to get registered.","creditText":"Google","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4511633/google-election-spanish-register-to-vote/","name":"Search Interest in Voter Registration by Spanish Speakers Skyrocketed After the Debate"}}]}] ```