United States Historical Election Returns, 1824-1968

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Principal Investigator(s): Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Summary: This collection of historical election data contains state files that list county-level returns for over 90 percent of all elections to the offices of president, governor, United States senator, and United States representative from 1824 through 1968. The data files include returns for all parties and candidates (as well as write-in and scattering votes if available for individual states), and for special elections as well as regularly-scheduled contests. Over 1,000 individual party names and ma... (view details)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00001.v3

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