This year's elections follow a presidential election that witnessed the highest level of national youth voter participation in over a decade, and a voter turnout rate among 18 to 29 year olds of 47 percent, up 9 percentage points over 2000. This fact sheet reports the characteristics of young voters nationally, including estimates of the number of young voters, voter turnout in 2002 and 1994 for various sub-groups of young people, and estimates of young voter partisanship in 2002 and 2006. (Contains 1 graph, 3 tables, and 4 endnotes.) [This fact sheet was produced by the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement (CIRCLE).]