Southern Primary and General Election Data, 1946-1972 (ICPSR 72)

Published: Jan 12, 2006

Principal Investigator(s):
Numan V. Bartley; Hugh D. Graham

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00072.v1

Version V1

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Project Description

Summary

This study constitutes a continuation of the effort to gather information on the southern electoral process (see also SOUTHERN PRIMARY AND GENERAL ELECTION DATA, 1920-1949 [ICPSR 0071]). The data consist of county-level returns for selected primary and general elections contested in 11 southern states (Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Tennessee) from 1944-1972. Data are provided for raw vote totals for candidates in presidential, gubernatorial, and senatorial elections, as well as for selected popular referenda returns in this period. In addition, there are variables that describe the demographic and geographic nature of each county included in this study.

Citation

Bartley, Numan V., and Graham, Hugh D. Southern Primary and General Election Data, 1946-1972. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-01-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00072.v1

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Subject Terms

candidates counties demographic characteristics election returns elections gubernatorial elections national elections political attitudes political parties presidential elections primaries state elections voting behavior

Geographic Coverage

North Carolina Mississippi United States Texas Tennessee Louisiana Georgia Alabama Florida Virginia Arkansas South Carolina

Scope of Project

Time Period(s)

1944 -- 1972

Methodology

Universe

Counties in 11 southern states of the United States in the period 1944-1972.

Data Source

official sources

Data Type(s)

aggregate data

Version(s)

Original Release Date

1984-06-19

Version Date

2006-01-12

Version History

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 12 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

1984-06-19 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:

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Notes

Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.
The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented.

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