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An interactive Electoral College map since 1789
Also gives popular vote totals and quick election facts Since 1920, the Clerk of the House has collected and published the official vote counts for federal elections from the official sources among the various states and territories. These documents, out of print for many years, have been collected and scanned in a format to make them once again available to researchers and students.
Maps and tables with Presidential votes since 1860
Maps outline state electoral votes
Tables show major and independent presidential and vice presidential candidates, popular and electoral votes, and percentages for both
County election data for 1912, 1968, and 1980-2000
Data from the Electoral College including historical election results
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 in the Current Population Survey (CPS). Site includes detailed information from recent surveys and historical trends. Estimates and projections of voting-age population derived from administrative records and Census 2000 are also provided.
Votes for President and Governor by state and county beginning 1952
Votes for Members of Congress by Congressional District beginning 1946
Only available in paper copy: Gen Ref JK 1967 .A1 A68
Two-year time lag between the general elections and publication date
Presidential election results for each Congressional District is found under the description of the district and its representative
Eisenhower Government Publications Reference, Non-Circ JK274.V582
Provides election results combined with other variables from 1789 through present.
University of Michigan - Documentation on voting, public opinion, and political participation studies
Studies are available for downloading into various Statistical packages (SAS, SPSS) 1948-2004 - The Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior
- Provides summary data on social, economic, partisanship, and public opinion, 1952 to present, with percents, graphs and some pre-defined cross-tabulations
- NES Bibliography – lists papers, reports that have been published using NES data
Berkeley site
- Provides online software for analysis
Example of how to use the site (Courtesy of University of Michigan Government Docs) - Tutorial using NES data --- SETUPS (Supplementary Empirical Teaching Units in Political Science) Sponsored jointly by ICPSR and the American Political Science Association (APSA), the SETUPS site features Voting Behavior: The 2004 Election, an instructional module based on the 2004 National Election Study (NES) data. Authored by Charles Prysby and Carmine Scavo, the module offers students the opportunity to analyze an accessible dataset drawn from the 2004 National Election Study (NES). The site also offers a discussion of the background to the 2004 election and voting behavior in national elections, and exercises that explain how to analyze the data and understand the results.
The Gallup Brain is a searchable, living record of more than 60 years of public opinion. Included are answers to more than 125,000 questions and responses from more than 3.5 million people interviewed by the Gallup Poll since 1935. Also included are current Gallup Poll News Service articles that feature the latest in-depth poll analyses and replicas of news stories and press releases linked to the surveys. Polling the Nations is a compilation of more than 14,000 surveys conducted by more than 700 polling organizations in the United States and more than 80 other countries from 1986 to the present. Each of the nearly 350,000 records reports a question asked and the responses given. Also included in each record is the polling organization responsible for the work, the date the information was released, the sample size, and universe, i.e., the groups or areas included in the interview. Roper polls can also be searched in Academic Universe in the Reference/Polls and Surveys section Additional public Opinion sites (Courtesy of Univ. of Michigan) |
