Election Related Datasets

Federal Elections Commission

source: http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/electionresults.shtml
public: yes

Every two years, the Commission publishes Federal Elections, a compilation of the official, certified federal election results obtained from each state’s election office and other official sources. The above links provide the primary, runoff and general election results for the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives and, when applicable, U.S. President. The Federal Elections series began in 1982. For more information, contact the Public Records Office via e-mail (pubrec@fec.gov) or on the Commission’s toll-free line, 800/424-9530 (option 2). The direct dial number is 202/694-1120.

##ANES American National Election Studies, Stanford University
site: http://www.electionstudies.org/
data: http://www.electionstudies.org/studypages/download/datacenter_all_datasets.php
public: Yes, but you have to register

The mission of the American National Election Studies (ANES) is to inform explanations of election outcomes by providing data that support rich hypothesis testing, maximize methodological excellence, measure many variables, and promote comparisons across people, contexts, and time. The ANES serves this mission by providing researchers with a view of the political world through the eyes of ordinary citizens. Such data are critical, because these citizens' actions determine election outcomes.

##Circle
Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement, Tufts University
source: http://civicyouth.org/ResearchTopics/research-products-cat/data-sets/
public: Yes

CIRCLE, the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning & Engagement, focuses on young people in the United States, especially those who are marginalized or disadvantaged in political life. CIRCLE’s scholarly research informs policy and practice for healthier youth development and a better democracy.

##The American Presidency Project UC Santa Barbara source: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data.php
public: yes

The American Presidency Project is the world's preeminent comprehensive online resource on all aspects of the U.S. presidency. This project is one of the world's most widely used sources for information about the presidency and the role of the presidency in American democracy.

##Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies American University, DC
source: http://www.american.edu/spa/ccps/Data-Sets.cfm
public: yes

##CLEA Constituency-Level Elections Archive, University of Michigan
source: http://www.electiondataarchive.org/index.html
public: yes, but you must register

The Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA) is a repository of detailed election results at the constituency level for lower house legislative elections from around the world. Our motivation is to preserve and consolidate these valuable data in one comprehensive and reliable resource that is ready for analysis and publicly available at no cost. This public good is expected to be of use to a range of audiences for research, education, and policy-making.

##US Elections Project
University of Florida
source: http://www.electproject.org/
public: yes

The United States Elections Project is an information source for the United States electoral system. The mission of the project is to provide timely and accurate election statistics, electoral laws, research reports, and other useful information regarding the United States electoral system. By providing this information, the project seeks to inform the people of the United States on how their electoral system works, how it may be improved, and how they can participate in it.

##CQ Press
Congressional Quarterly, Sage Publications
source: http://library.cqpress.com/elections/download-data.php
public: yes

##CPS Census.gov > Current Population Survey (CPS) > Voting and Registration
site: https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/socdemo/voting/index.html
public: Yes

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). The CPS is a monthly survey of about 50,000 households conducted by the Bureau of the Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The CPS is the primary source of information on the labor force characteristics of the U.S. population. The voting supplement does not provide estimates of partisanship, such as what candidate a voter supported or what political party a voter aligned themselves with.

##Harvard Election Data Archive
site: http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/eda/pages/about
public: yes

This archive contains data on election results, voting behavior, and electoral politics, with particular focus on the United States. The core data for the archive are state, county and district level election returns for all recent state and federal elections in the United States.