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Where to Find Data
Lists data available across disciplines and data repositories
U.S. Elections- Online Resources
- Voting Behavior in the 2016 ElectionAn instructional resources project sponsored by the APSA, ICPSR, and SETUPS.
- Federal Election CommissionThe Federal Election Commission (FEC) is the independent regulatory agency charged with administering and enforcing the federal campaign finance law. The FEC has jurisdiction over the financing of campaigns for the U.S. House, Senate, Presidency and the Vice Presidency.
- United States Census BureauVoting and Registration: In election years, the Current Population Survey collects data on reported voting and registration, and later reports stats by turnout, age, race and origin.
- Harvard Election Data ArchiveThis archive contains data on election results, voting behavior, and electoral politics, with particular focus on the United States.
- American National Election StudiesTo serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and journalists, the ANES produces high quality data from its own surveys on voting, public opinion, and political participation.
- Roper Center for Public Opinion ResearchThis webpage contains polling data from the 1976-2016 Presidential elections.
- U.S. Electoral College Historical Election ResultsView the electoral votes, popular votes, electors, and certificates of past presidential elections.
- Voting America United States Politics (1840-2008)examines long-term patterns in presidential election politics in the United States from the 1840s to today as well as some patterns in recent congressional election politics.
- U.S. Election Assistance CommissionInnovative research and data collection fuels the EAC’s mission to improve voter experience and support election administrators. This page contains Election Administration and Voting Survey data reports.
- United States Election ProjectIncludes data and information on voter turnout rates and demographics in past elections.
Book/Ebook Resources
- Voter turnout in the United States 1788-2009
Voter turnout in the United States is the only product on the market that provides comprehensive turnout statistics for presidential, congressional, and state gubernatorial general and primary races in the U.S. since the 1790s. Owners of the online edition have access to an invaluable, user-friendly tool which allows them to export the books data into Excel. - African American Electorate: A Statistical History
Brings together all of the extant, fugitive and recently discovered registration data on African-American voters from Colonial America to the present. This pioneering work also traces the history of the laws dealing with enfranchisement and disenfranchisement of African Americans and provides the election return data for African-American candidates in national and sub-national elections over this same time span - History of American Electoral Behavior
The contributors to this volume apply quantitative techniques to the study of popular voting behavior. Their essays address problems of improving conceptualization and classifications of voting patterns, accounting for electoral outcomes, examining the nature and impact of constraints on participation, and considering the relationship of electoral behavior to subsequent public policy.