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These facts make the Latino vote one of the key factors to win the 2016 presidential race:

• 23,632,000 Latinos were eligible to vote in the 2012 elections.

• Every 30 seconds, a Latino turns 18 and becomes eligible to vote.

• By the 2016 presidential election, the eligible Latino electorate will reach 28.5 million.

• In the 2014 elections Hispanics made up 8% of the nation’s voters, the same as in 2010 and 2006, according to national exit polls.

• 40.1% of voters in New Mexico are Hispanic. Follow by 27.4% in Texas, 26.9% in California, 20.3%in Arizona, and 17.1% in Florida.

• 24% of Floridians are Hispanic, up from 17% in 2000. Overall, 1.7 million Hispanics were registered to vote in Florida as of October 2014, according to the state’s Division of Elections.

• The Hispanic population is expected to grow 7 million each year in the U.S.

• The total U.S. population is projected to be 17 percent Hispanic in 2014 and 29 percent Hispanic in 2060.

• One in each four born in the U.S. will be Latino by 2060.

• The amount of foreign-born Latinos in the U.S. will decrease annually.

For more data about Latinos visit our interactive infographic here.

Sources: Pew Research Center, U.S. Census Bureau, and NALEO Educational Fund.