“Drop-off”, in the study of elections, means the share of voters who cast a ballot but don’t complete the ballot. For U.S. Senate, in November 2016, the California drop-off was 16.20%. In other words, almost one-sixth of the voters who cast a ballot didn’t bother to vote for U.S. Senate, which was the second item on the ballot, just after president.

This is undoubtedly because the November 2016 California ballot forced voters to either vote for one of two Democrats, or not to vote for U.S. Senate at all. This happened because of Proposition 14, the top-two system, which has been in effect in California since 2011.

The drop-out rate for U.S. Senate in California in the past 75 years has been:
2016 16.20%
2012 4.72%
2010 2.92%
2006 4.02%
2004 4.26%
2000 4.66%
1998 3.55%
1994 4.34%
1992 5.05%
1988 4.42%
1986 2.87%
1982 3.21%
1980 5.10%
1976 8.17%
1974 4.12%
1970 2.13%
1968 3.55%
1964 2.64%
1962 4.75%
1958 .95%
1956 3.36%
1954 4.19%
1952 12.81%
1950 4.15%
1946 4.35%
1944 7.33%

Years not mentioned above had no U.S. Senate election.

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