Federal Government Information: Elections

View the electoral votes, popular votes, electors, and certificates of past presidential elections. Covers 1789 to 2020.

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The Atlas uses sets of four-color maps focused at the county level to offer new perspectives and insight into the nationʼs first fifty-five presidential elections. Exclusive to it are illuminating maps indicating degrees of support in each county for every candidate obtaining at least 2 percent of the popular vote. Link to MERLIN catalog for library item.

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Campaign expenditures, contributions by individuals, organizations, and PACs. Laws and policy for federal and state elections.

Campaign contributions, lobbying data and analysis.

Archives of contributions to political campaigns in all 50 states. Summaries of each state's election cycles, candidates and ballot measures.

By the Federal Election Commission. Maps, charts, graphs and downloadable data.

Time Series Studies are conducted during years of national elections, with pre-election and post-election surveys conducted in presidential election years and post-election surveys conducted during congressional election years.

Campaign finance and disclosure, meetings and hearings, law, regulation and procedures.

The official vote counts for federal elections from the official sources among the various states and territories. Covers 1920 to 2018.

Contemporary American election statistics. Print. 1956-2012. Link to MERLIN catalog for library item.

v. 1. pt. 1. Elections in America ; pt. 2. Political parties ; pt. 3. Presidential elections ; Indexes -- v. 2. pt. 4. Congressional elections ; pt. 5. Gubernatorial elections ; Reference materials ; Selected bibliography ; Indexes. Link to MERLIN catalog for library item.

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The accuracy and inaccuracy of election data -- Who is allowed to vote: suffrage and election laws -- Who goes to the polls -- The familiarity of presidential elections -- The obscurity of house elections -- The notoriety of senate elections -- The isolation of gubernatorial elections? -- Party winners and losers across multiple elections -- Appendix A: Major-party labels -- B: Additional house election data -- Bibliography -- Index. Link to MERLIN catalog for library item.

Information on reported voting and registration by various demographic and socioeconomic characteristics is collected for the nation in November of Congressional and Presidential election years by the Census Bureau.

National Conference of State Legislatures state-by-state guide.

v. 1. Electoral and personal data -- v. 2. Biographical data, Alabama-Montana -- v. 3. Biographical data, Nebraska-Wyoming. Link to MERLIN catalog for library item.

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ICPSR data set. Contains returns from 1967-2010. Includes demographic information on candidates.

This data set contains information on state legislative election returns from 1967 through 2010. Each observation in the data set refers to an individual candidate who ran for state legislative office during this time period. There are a total of 308,125 observations in the data set. The years 1967 to 2003 contained in the last edition of the dataset have been extensively cleaned, and the years 2004 to 2010 have been added.