Campaigns and Elections
Mega sites
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Center for Responsive Politics
Guide to the Money in U.S. Elections.
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CQ's Campaigns and Elections Magazine
Site dedicated to giving you inside information on all campaigns and elections.
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League of
Women Voters DemocracyNet
The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, has fought since 1920 to improve our systems of government and impact public policies through citizen education and advocacy.
- Yahoo Search Directory
Yahoo's search directory regarding U.S. Elections.
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Google Directory: U.S. Elections
Google directory for U.S. Elections.
- Librarians' Index to the Internet: Politics
Librarians' Internet Index (LII) is a publicly-funded website and weekly newsletter serving California, Washington state, the nation, and the world.
- National Political Index
The National Political Index is a web site which provides an index of substantive political information for voters, political activists, political consultants, lobbyists, politicians, academicians, and media editors with a wide range of products, information, services, simulations, games, and polling in an interactive communications environment.
- Politics 1
Founded in 1997, Politics1 is published as a non-partisan public service to promote fully informed decision-making by the American electorate.
- Project Vote
Smart
Extensive nonpartisan information on elected officials' voting records and candidates' positions.
- Election Archive
The National Election Data Archive is a scientific research project whose mission is to objectively investigate the accuracy of elections in America through the creation and analysis of a database containing detailed precinct-level election data for the entire United States.
Campaign Finances
Election Returns and Statistics
- National Election
Studies
A site designed for social scientists, teachers, students, policy
makers, and other researchers to provide "high quality data on voting,
public opinion, and political participation."
- American National Election Studies(ANES)
Data sets for U.S. elections and public opinion from 1948 to the present.
- Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Compendium of downloadable data in the social sciences. Access to some data restricted to on-campus users. First-time GW users must register on the Web site before downloading data. For election data, see in particular the "Special Topic Archive."
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United States Electoral College (NARA)
An overview of electoral
laws and procedures, as well as historical votes,
put together by the National Archives and Records Administration.
- David Leip's
Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections
Maps and tables with Presidential votes since 1860. 2004 Primaries
information available.
- Record of
American Democracy, 1984-1990
Historical data for voting and registration information. Data results
in a number of formats.
- Voting and Registration Data
U.S. Census data, including sociodemographic characteristics going
back to 1964.
- Indiana's Secretary
of State Elections Division
- American National Studies(ANES)
Ongoing studies of the American electorate. Provides data and statistics on voting, public opinion, and political participation in the U.S. from 1948 to the present.
- CQ 2006 Election Forecast Map
Up-to-date information on upcoming Congressional and gubernatorial elections by state and Congressional district.
- Voting and Registration Statistics
Information on voting and registration with various demographic and socioeconomic characteristics.
Recent Elections
On-Line Opinion Polls
- PollingReport.com
Documents trends in public opinion in politics, business, and
society.
- Polling the Nations
An interface for searching a large number of public opinion
polls.
- The Gallup
Organization
Although much of the information is only available to subscribers,
there are a number of free polls that are worth examining.
- Public
Agenda
Offers polls and articles about current issues. Not specifically
geared towards elections, but provides an excellent source
for public opinion on hot topics such as welfare reform, immigration, or
gay rights.
Miscellaneous Sites
Historical Elections
Historic Election Results
- 270 to Win
Map of electoral college votes since 1789
Interactive map of electoral college for 2004
Begin by viewing the map as neutral, with 2000 results, or imagined in 2004
(with red, blue and swing states)
Toggle to change the colors and determine a strategy
- Clerk
of the House
Historical data includes national electoral college results since the
1st Congress, Presidential and Senatorial election results by state and
House by district since 1920
Data on the political divisions in Congress since the 34th
Congress
- CNN
Consistent for retaining old election results on the internet
Includes exit polls which provide presidential votes by voter demographics
- The Vote
'96
Election 1998
Election 2000
Election 2002
Election 2004
- David Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections
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
County map of Presidential vote for 2000
- National Election Studies
Documentation on voting, public opinion, and political participation studies
Studies 1994+ available for ftp for use with SAS or SPSS
Documentation in Word Perfect format
- 2000
Pre- and Post-Election Questionnaires
- National Election Studies: 2004
is being organized as of January 2004
- Guide
to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior Provides
summary data on social, economic, partisanship, and public
opinion, 1952 to present
- Road to American
Democracy, 1984-1990 (Harvard/MIT Data Center)
Variables include 100% population items from the 1990 Census (race,
households, families) plus biennial voting and registration data,
1984-1990, for cities and townships
Registration and voting data by voting precinct, 1984-1990
Data may be downloaded in zipped format or searched on line and
cross-tabulated
Reviewing the codebook (pdf or zipped format) is necessary to use the
data
Data results in SPSS, SAS, STATA, and sometimes ASCII formats
- United States
Electoral College (NARA)
Electoral college laws and procedures
State-by-state electoral college votes, 1789-2000
Create your own electoral vote scenario
- Voter
Registration, 1952- (National Election Study)
National level voter registration data at two-year intervals since
1952
Data by political party, income, black/white, education, occupation,
and union membership