In the 2004 presidential election, 52,440 Dominicans living overseas registered to vote and of these, 35,042 voted. President Leonel Fernandez received a majority of the votes cast, or 25,898 for 74%, then President Hipolito Mejia received 7,141 votes for 22% and Eduardo Estrella (PRSC) received 1,356 votes, or 3%.
Four years later, for the 2008 presidential election, the number of eligible voters had tripled to 154,797. Expatriate registered voters by country:
United States: 96,785
Spain: 31,354
Puerto Rico: 11,311
St. Martin: 2,984
Venezuela: 2,570
Italy: 2,347
Panama: 2,075
Switzerland: 1,964
Curacao: 1,369
Canada: 1,135
Holland: 903