--- title: Nearly Half America More Motivated to Vote in Future: Poll description: The presidential election has made 45% of Americans say they "feel more motivated" to vote in upcoming elections, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released Thursday. canonical: https://time.com/4575569/poll-america-motivated-vote-future/ author: Julia Zorthian article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-17T21:10:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T01:54:01.826Z article:section: Politics og:title: Nearly Half of America Is 'More Motivated' to Vote in the Future, Poll Finds og:description: The poll also found many people want to be more politically informed og:url: https://time.com/4575569/poll-america-motivated-vote-future/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2f360b720dd68e18/6988aef30a4a22162d9cc173/voting-booth-america-more-motivated-to-vote.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: voting booth america more motivated to vote og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Nearly Half of America Is 'More Motivated' to Vote in the Future, Poll Finds twitter:description: The poll also found many people want to be more politically informed twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2f360b720dd68e18/6988aef30a4a22162d9cc173/voting-booth-america-more-motivated-to-vote.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Nearly Half of America Is 'More Motivated' to Vote in the Future, Poll Finds  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Nov 17, 2016 9:10 PM UTC  Blend Images-Hill Street Studios—Getty Images  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Nov 17, 2016 9:10 PM UTC The [presidential election](http://time.com/election-day-photos-2016/) has left 45% of Americans saying they “feel more motivated” to vote in upcoming elections, according to [a Reuters/Ipsos poll](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-poll-idUSKBN13C2HM) released Thursday. The poll touched base with Americans in the aftermath of [Donald Trump](http://time.com/4573889/donald-trump-potential-victories/) winning the election, and found that 63% of the country would support the new president moving forward. The 2016 election is encouraging more general civic engagement as well: The poll found that 42% of respondents are more motivated to stay informed about politics now. With many peoples’ [post-election shock wearing off](http://time.com/4573627/donald-trump-more-confident-poll/), 85% of respondents said they accept the election results as legitimate. Republican respondents were generally optimistic about [Trump’s presidency](http://time.com/4574484/trumps-presidency-end-livable-climate/), while the majority of Democrat respondents said they were pessimistic. The poll, which was conducted online in all 50 states, surveyed 1,782 American adults and had a credibility interval of 3 percentage points, Reuters reports. \[[_Reuters_](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-poll-idUSKBN13C2HM)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4575569/poll-america-motivated-vote-future/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4575569/poll-america-motivated-vote-future/"},"headline":"Nearly Half of America Is 'More Motivated' to Vote in the Future, Poll Finds","datePublished":"2016-11-17T21:10:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T01:54:01.826Z","description":"The poll also found many people want to be more politically informed","url":"https://time.com/4575569/poll-america-motivated-vote-future/","keywords":["Hillary Clinton","2016 Election topic","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2f360b720dd68e18/6988aef30a4a22162d9cc173/voting-booth-america-more-motivated-to-vote.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Julia Zorthian","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2f360b720dd68e18/6988aef30a4a22162d9cc173/voting-booth-america-more-motivated-to-vote.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"voting booth america more motivated to vote","caption":"Voting booths in polling place","creditText":"Blend Images-Hill Street Studios—Getty Images","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":"https://time.com/4575569/poll-america-motivated-vote-future/","name":"Nearly Half of America Is 'More Motivated' to Vote in the Future, Poll Finds"}}]}] ```