State-Level Congressional, Gubernatorial and Senatorial Election Data for the United States, 1824-1972 (ICPSR 75)

Version Date: Jan 12, 2006

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Principal Investigator(s):
W. Dean Burnham; Jerome M. Clubb; William H. Flanigan

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00075.v1

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Summary

This study contains raw and percentagized returns for all regular congressional, gubernatorial, and senatorial elections in the United States from 1824-1972. Data are provided for the number of votes cast for the major parties, including the Democratic party, the Old Republican party, the National Republican party, the Whig party, the Liberal party, and the Socialist party, and for parties whose candidates received 5 percent or more of the statewide total vote, the percentages of the votes cast for the same parties, and the estimates of voter turnout in these Congressional elections. Additional variables provide percentagized total number of citizens, Blacks, foreign-born aliens, and white aliens aged 21 and older. All data are aggregated to the state level.

Citation

Burnham, W. Dean, Clubb, Jerome M., and Flanigan, William H. State-Level Congressional, Gubernatorial and Senatorial Election Data for the United States, 1824-1972. [distributor], 2006-01-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00075.v1

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Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

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Time Period(s)

1824 -- 1972
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Sample

Decennial census figures for total population, and population deemed eligible to vote by contemporary age, race, sex, and citizenship criteria, were used to compute estimates of the number of persons deemed qualified to vote in each election year. Inter-censal estimates were computed from the decennial figures, using a linear interpolation method. The resulting inter-censal estimates for total population and "eligible voters" were then used to obtain an estimate of voter turnout in an election by dividing the total votes cast in an election by the estimated population figure.

Data Source

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

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Original Release Date

1984-06-19

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:
  • Burnham, W. Dean, Jerome M. Clubb, and William H. Flanigan. State-Level Congressional, Gubernatorial and Senatorial Election Data for the United States, 1824-1972. ICPSR00075-v1. [distributor], 2018-01-22. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00075.v1

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 8 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.
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