Metadata record for Michigan Election Returns, 1974: Precinct-Level

Michigan Election Returns, 1974: Precinct-Level Michigan Department of State Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR 1992-02-16 74 doi://10.3886/ICPSR00074.v1

This data collection contains aggregate election returns for each of Michigan's 6,743 precincts and absentee voter counting boards for the November 5, 1974, general election. Data are provided for offices contested in 1974, which include those of governor, secretary of state, attorney general, United States representative, state senator and representative, superintendent of the Michigan Board of Education, Supreme Court justice, and regents of the three major state universities. Data are also provided for four statewide proposals (referenda) voted upon in the general election.

UniverseScheme00074 ICPSR.XIV.A.3.a congressional elections (US House) constitutional amendments election precincts election returns elections gubernatorial elections referendum state elections state politics vote count voting behavior Michigan United States 1974 1974 aggregate data Michigan's 6,734 electoral precincts and absentee voter counting boards in 1974. Michigan Department of State, Elections Division 1974-11-04 1974-11-04

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