Philadelphia Voting Data, 1924-1936 (ICPSR 7551)
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John L. Shover
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This data collection contains electoral returns for all voting divisions (precincts) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the period 1924-1936. Included are complete returns for the four presidential elections in this period as well as the voting returns for single contests for the offices of mayor, state treasurer, and governor. The data are stored in two discrete files, necessitated by the 1933 redistricting in Philadelphia. File 1 covers the period 1924-1932, and File 2 covers the period 1932-1934. Each file contains percentagized electoral returns for the Republican, Democratic, and Progressive parties, as well as information on the ethnic and racial composition of the electorate in each of the voting divisions, and the total number of voters. Also provided are percentages of native white voters, Black voters, and foreign-born voters.
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All voting precincts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the period 1924-1936.
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(1) Registration Commission of Philadelphia. ANNUAL REPORT, and (2) THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE MANUAL, 1925-1926. Harrisburg, PA: 1926
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1984-06-20
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- Shover, John L. PHILADELPHIA VOTING DATA, 1924-1936. ICPSR ed. Compiled by John L. Shover, University of Pennsylvania. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1978. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07551.v1
2006-01-18 File CB7551.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.
1984-06-20 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Standardized missing values.
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