Voting and Election: Election Statistics/Data/Maps
Current and historical resources about elections and voting to support research, teaching, and civic engagement for Rice and the general public community.
Free U.S. Presidential election information and maps from 1789 forward. Results from individual states from 1848 forward. Datasets from the 1990s forward available for a fee. Selected more current gubernatorial and senatorial race results also available. Latest presidential results 2020.
Princeton University librarian Jeremy Darrington's guide showing sources of data down to the precinct level. Includes elections for the President and Congress as well as for statewide and local and municipal elections.
Official vote counts from the clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives for federal elections from the official sources of the various states and territories starting with the 1920 election forward.See a state by state breakdown of the number of votes received for each candidate for President, Senate and House of Representatives.
Originally designed to provide data about electoral votes. Now expanded to include polling data for federal house and senate races on a state-by-state basis.
"Searchable collection of election returns from the earliest years of American democracy (presently 1787-1827)" from Tufts University and the American Antiquarian Society. Download "the election returns dataset for offline analysis, including both state-by state records and the authority records."
The first free, comprehensive, standardized, linked set of election data for the United States, including federal and statewide offices. Winner of the Knight Foundation's News Challenge.
Data includes election returns, socioeconomic summaries, and demographic measures of the American public at unusually low levels of geographic aggregation (SPSS, or SAS packages need to be used).
Links to extensive election information organized by the following categories: vote totals; votes by voter characteristics; electoral college; voter registration; and state statistics. Check Rice holdings for the commercial databases mentioned.
This resource guide compiles a list of online and print resources that contain U.S. election statistics for both federal and state elections. All of the print publications listed in this guide can be consulted on-site at the Library of Congress.
Created by the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond to provide analysis of and cinematic and interactive maps for the U.S. Presidential elections from 1840-2004. Provides election data to the county level.
U.S. Census Bureau site containing tables, reports and links to other sites about voting and registering to vote for Presidential and Congressional elections in the U.S. "In election years, the Current Population Survey collects data on reported voting and registration, and later reports stats by turnout, age, race and origin."
Counties
Metropolitan and Micropolitan Areas
Offshore Areas
Economic Places
Puerto Rico Planning Regions
Regions and Divisions
States
ZIP Codes
Geographic Hierarchy for Island Areas
Format: Table of Requirements arranged by the states.
"States have varied requirements on who is eligible to request a list of voters, what information the list contains, what information is kept confidential and how the information contained in voter lists may be used."