Burbank has 74,234 active registered voters. 16,039 of them are registered Republicans.
That is 21.6 percent of the city — better than one voter in five. Democrats number 36,067, or 48.6 percent. A further 20,044 voters, 27.0 percent, are registered with no party preference or with the American Independent Party.
Every figure on this page is a count taken from the Los Angeles County voter file dated May 26, 2026, covering every active registration in the city at every age. Nothing is sampled, modelled or estimated, with one exception that is described and measured in the section on gender.
How the city is registered
Bars are scaled to the largest party.
Democrats hold a plurality of Burbank registrations but not a majority: 48.6 percent. The remaining 51.4 percent is split between Republicans, the unaffiliated and the minor parties.
Republican registration rises with every decade of age
17.8 percent of Burbank voters under twenty-five are registered Republicans. Among voters eighty-five and older, the figure is 36.6 percent — better than one in three.
The climb is steady rather than sudden. Republican share is broadly flat from eighteen to fifty-four, then rises in every band after that.
Every age band, every party
Each cell carries the count with its percentage beneath it. Party percentages are that party’s share of the age band, so each row reads across to one hundred percent. The percentage under the voters column is that band’s share of the city, and it reads down to one hundred percent. Every count adds to the totals in the final row.
| Age | Voters | Republican | Democrat | No party preference | American Independent | Other parties |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18-24 | 5,2667.1% | 93717.8% | 2,43246.2% | 1,45127.6% | 2635.0% | 1833.5% |
| 25-34 | 12,37916.7% | 1,96215.8% | 6,53552.8% | 2,89823.4% | 5314.3% | 4533.7% |
| 35-44 | 14,33819.3% | 2,37916.6% | 7,29250.9% | 3,73126.0% | 4683.3% | 4683.3% |
| 45-54 | 12,47416.8% | 2,29418.4% | 6,12049.1% | 3,21125.7% | 4593.7% | 3903.1% |
| 55-64 | 11,97116.1% | 3,10726.0% | 5,40045.1% | 2,62421.9% | 5584.7% | 2822.4% |
| 65-74 | 9,56112.9% | 2,60227.2% | 4,58648.0% | 1,80418.9% | 3703.9% | 1992.1% |
| 75-84 | 5,7677.8% | 1,85032.1% | 2,65146.0% | 1,00617.4% | 1773.1% | 831.4% |
| 85+ | 2,4783.3% | 90836.6% | 1,05142.4% | 43917.7% | 542.2% | 261.0% |
| All ages | 74,234100.0% | 16,03921.6% | 36,06748.6% | 17,16423.1% | 2,8803.9% | 2,0842.8% |
More than one voter in four belongs to no party
20,044 Burbank voters — 27.0 percent — are registered either with no party preference or with the American Independent Party. That is a larger block than the Republican registration and it is younger than the city as a whole: 9,342 of them are under forty-five.
Gender, and an honest account of it
This section carries a caveat that changes how it should be read, so the caveat comes first.
Because the table was built only from records outside Burbank, all 29,421 Burbank records that do carry a recorded gender were held back as a test. Scored against them, the method assigned a gender to 88.3 percent and was correct 99.1 percent of the time, and its accuracy held between 98.6 and 99.3 percent in every age band. Coverage across the city rises from 39.6 percent to 91.2 percent. 6,511 voters remain unassigned and are excluded from the table below.
Men are more likely than women to be registered Republican in every age band. The gap is widest among the youngest voters, at 10.9 points, and narrows to under three points in middle age.
| Age | Women | Men | Republican, women | Republican, men | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18-24 | 2,19950.3% | 2,17449.7% | 29013.2% | 52424.1% | +10.9 |
| 25-34 | 5,42250.5% | 5,31049.5% | 68912.7% | 1,03619.5% | +6.8 |
| 35-44 | 6,76651.8% | 6,29348.2% | 1,01215.0% | 1,14918.3% | +3.3 |
| 45-54 | 6,13652.5% | 5,55447.5% | 1,04817.1% | 1,10319.9% | +2.8 |
| 55-64 | 5,87351.8% | 5,45548.2% | 1,40623.9% | 1,54428.3% | +4.4 |
| 65-74 | 4,82854.2% | 4,08545.8% | 1,21525.2% | 1,20629.5% | +4.4 |
| 75-84 | 3,11458.4% | 2,22141.6% | 93229.9% | 78435.3% | +5.4 |
| 85+ | 1,40961.4% | 88438.6% | 51836.8% | 34338.8% | +2.0 |
| All ages | 35,74752.8% | 31,97647.2% | 7,11019.9% | 7,68924.0% | +4.2 |
Voters living in multifamily buildings
How they are registered
Republican registration in multifamily housing is 6.6 points below the rest of the city. Democratic registration is 3.7 points higher.
Republican share by age
The rise with age is still there but it stops early. Across the whole city Republican share reaches 36.6 percent among voters eighty-five and older; in multifamily buildings it peaks at 22.8 percent and then falls.
Every age band, every party
| Age | Voters | Republican | Democrat | No party preference | American Independent | Other parties |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18-24 | 1,1226.4% | 16214.4% | 55049.0% | 30527.2% | 504.5% | 554.9% |
| 25-34 | 4,06723.2% | 49012.0% | 2,36258.1% | 88321.7% | 1744.3% | 1583.9% |
| 35-44 | 3,99422.8% | 56014.0% | 2,15453.9% | 1,00025.0% | 1383.5% | 1423.6% |
| 45-54 | 2,58614.8% | 41416.0% | 1,29950.2% | 66025.5% | 1194.6% | 943.6% |
| 55-64 | 2,35813.5% | 51321.8% | 1,11747.4% | 53722.8% | 1205.1% | 713.0% |
| 65-74 | 1,84710.5% | 42122.8% | 91249.4% | 40321.8% | 653.5% | 462.5% |
| 75-84 | 1,0446.0% | 23622.6% | 52550.3% | 23622.6% | 272.6% | 201.9% |
| 85+ | 5082.9% | 10821.3% | 24648.4% | 13025.6% | 163.1% | 81.6% |
| All ages | 17,526100.0% | 2,90416.6% | 9,16552.3% | 4,15423.7% | 7094.0% | 5943.4% |
Is it simply that these voters are younger?
It is the obvious objection, and it deserves a direct answer. Multifamily residents in Burbank are younger than the city as a whole, and younger voters are less likely to register Republican everywhere. So the gap above could be nothing but age wearing a different hat.
It is not. Comparing like with like inside every age band, multifamily residents are less Republican and more Democratic than other Burbank voters of exactly the same age — in every one of the eight bands, without exception. Weighted by the size of each band, the Republican share runs 5.4 points lower and the Democratic share 4.3 points higher than it would be for people of the same ages living elsewhere in the city.
| Age | Republican | Democrat | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multifamily | Rest of city | Gap | Multifamily | Rest of city | Gap | |
| 18-24 | 1,12214.4% | 4,14418.7% | -4.3 | 49.0% | 45.4% | +3.6 |
| 25-34 | 4,06712.0% | 8,31217.7% | -5.7 | 58.1% | 50.2% | +7.9 |
| 35-44 | 3,99414.0% | 10,34417.6% | -3.6 | 53.9% | 49.7% | +4.3 |
| 45-54 | 2,58616.0% | 9,88819.0% | -3.0 | 50.2% | 48.8% | +1.5 |
| 55-64 | 2,35821.8% | 9,61327.0% | -5.2 | 47.4% | 44.6% | +2.8 |
| 65-74 | 1,84722.8% | 7,71428.3% | -5.5 | 49.4% | 47.6% | +1.7 |
| 75-84 | 1,04422.6% | 4,72334.2% | -11.6 | 50.3% | 45.0% | +5.3 |
| 85+ | 50821.3% | 1,97040.6% | -19.3 | 48.4% | 40.9% | +7.6 |
Each row compares voters of the same age living in multifamily buildings against every other Burbank voter of that age. A pure age effect would close the gap once age is held constant. Instead the gap persists at every age and grows wider among the oldest voters, reaching 19.3 points among those eighty-five and older.
By size of building
| Building size | Voters | Republican | Registered within 2 years |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2-4 units | 4,82527.5% | 85717.8% | 38.1% |
| 5-9 units | 3,79421.6% | 66717.6% | 41.5% |
| 10-49 units | 6,27735.8% | 94915.1% | 43.7% |
| 50 units or more | 2,63015.0% | 43116.4% | 47.4% |
Registration date is the one direct measure of turnover in this file, and it rises with the size of the building: 47.4 percent of voters in buildings of fifty units or more registered at their address within the last two years, against 33.3 percent across the rest of Burbank. Larger buildings turn over faster.
Gender
| Age | Women | Men | Republican, women | Republican, men | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18-24 | 49654.6% | 41345.4% | 10.5% | 19.6% | +9.1 |
| 25-34 | 1,80851.8% | 1,68248.2% | 9.8% | 14.7% | +4.9 |
| 35-44 | 1,81550.6% | 1,77149.4% | 11.6% | 16.4% | +4.8 |
| 45-54 | 1,25452.4% | 1,13847.6% | 14.8% | 17.4% | +2.6 |
| 55-64 | 1,15852.3% | 1,05547.7% | 20.3% | 23.0% | +2.7 |
| 65-74 | 97557.0% | 73643.0% | 20.7% | 25.7% | +5.0 |
| 75-84 | 57661.2% | 36538.8% | 21.9% | 24.4% | +2.5 |
| 85+ | 30264.8% | 16435.2% | 23.5% | 18.3% | -5.2 |
Recorded where the county recorded it, inferred from first name otherwise, by the same method and with the same caveats described in section 3.
What this does and does not show
The law that permits this research
Research of this kind, carried out for political purposes, is political research within the meaning of that section. Access to the file itself is governed by Elections Code section 2188, and the information is exempt from disclosure under the California Public Records Act by Government Code section 7924.000. Elections Code section 18109 makes it a misdemeanor to use voter registration information for any purpose other than one the law permits, or to obtain it without first complying with section 2188.
Why we published it
A party that does not know its own city is guessing. Our team publishes the method alongside the numbers so that anyone can check the work, disagree with the definitions, or run the same count for another city.
The figures come from the Los Angeles County voter file as loaded on May 28, 2026 — active registrations present in that file, with ages calculated as of August 31, 2026.
An invitation
One in five Burbank voters is a Republican. Come and meet them.
16,039 people in this city are registered Republicans, and 2,899 of them are under thirty-five. Whatever you have been told about Burbank, this is not a lonely place to hold your politics.
We walk precincts, we show up at council and school board meetings, we run candidates, and we do the unglamorous work between elections that decides how a city is actually run. There is a place in that for anyone willing to do it.