Heavily Democratic areas saw the biggest drops in turnout in 2021

Each circle is a township in New Jersey, sized by the number of votes cast in 2021

A scatterplot showing the Democratic margin in the 2021 governor’s race on the x-axis and the change in turnout from 2020 to 2021 on the y-axis, by township in New Jersey. Areas Democrats won in 2021, especially majority-nonwhite areas, saw the biggest drop in turnout from the presidential race to the governor’s race.
Note: Includes townships where more than 500 votes were cast in 2021. Sources: New Jersey Division of Elections, U.S. Census Bureau. The New York Times