Philadelphia Voting Data, 1924-1936 (ICPSR 7551)

Version Date: Jan 18, 2006

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Principal Investigator(s):
John L. Shover

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07551.v1

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Summary

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.

Citation

Shover, John L. Philadelphia Voting Data, 1924-1936. [distributor], 2006-01-18. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07551.v1

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Geographic Coverage

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Time Period(s)

1924 -- 1936

Data Collection Notes

  1. The codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.

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All voting precincts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the period 1924-1936.

Data Source

(1) Registration Commission of Philadelphia. ANNUAL REPORT, and (2) THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE MANUAL, 1925-1926. Harrisburg, PA: 1926

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Original Release Date

1984-06-20

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • 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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