American voters’ confidence in the electoral process is on the rise but is still far below where it was even just four years ago, according to a new poll.

In a Gallup poll released Friday, 59% percent of surveyed Americans said they are very or somewhat confident that votes in next week’s midterm elections will be counted accurately. 

That is slightly higher than it was just before the 2020 presidential election, when it was 59% and tied the low since Gallup started asking the question in 2004. Former President Donald Trump spent the weeks leading up to the 2020 vote predicting widespread mail-in voting related to the COVID-19 pandemic would be marred by fraud.

There was record confidence in election integrity just before the 2006 midterms — 75%. In 2018, 70% said they trusted elections.

The poll, however, found a widening gap between the two major parties. Eighty-five percent of Democrats said they’re confident in the election process, but just 45% of Republicans said they are. The 45-point difference is the largest Gallup has ever recorded.

The relatively low number of Republicans with faith in elections is not surprising, as Trump and many Republican officials still claim today the 2020 presidential election was stolen – despite more than 60 losses in court cases challenging the results and assertions from election and law-enforcement officials that there was no evidence of fraud that could have impacted the outcome.

That Democrats’ high confidence in election integrity, however, is somewhat surprising. In 2020, there was a wave of laws passed in states with Republican legislatures that restricted voting, prompting congressional Democrats to try, unsuccessfully, to pass a pair of bills aimed at protecting voting rights. Meanwhile, hundreds of Republicans running for office this year are election deniers, including some vying to be top elections officials. 

The poll was conducted from Oct. 3-20. The midterm elections draw to a close Tuesday.