State Legislative Election Returns in the United States, 1968-1989 (ICPSR 8907)

Version Date: Jan 12, 2006

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

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08907.v5

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Summary

The purpose of this collection is to extend detailed study of electoral and governmental processes in the United States to the state and local levels and to encourage comparative analyses of voting patterns, political party competition, and partisan control between different states or regions. The collection provides election data at the county, constituency, and candidate levels for state legislative races contested in the United States between 1968 and 1989. General election returns for all 50 states are included, as well as primary election returns for 16 southern and border states. Data include county-level returns for all major and minor political parties that contested elections for seats in state legislatures, individual candidate totals at both the county and constituency levels, incumbency status, total number of votes cast for all candidates in an election, each candidate's percentage of the vote, and several measures comparing a candidate's performance with those of his or her rivals.

Citation

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. State Legislative Election Returns in the United States, 1968-1989. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-01-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08907.v5

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Funding

National Science Foundation (SES-8618482)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1968 -- 1989

Date of Collection

1968 -- 1989

Data Collection Notes

  1. The fifth edition of this collection contains general and special election returns from 1968 through 1989 for all 50 states and primary election returns, where available, for the same period for 14 southern and border states. Odd-year general elections are recorded in the county-level data file of the previous even-numbered year.

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Universe

Members of the voting age population of the United States from 1968 through 1989.

Data Source

official and unofficial election returns from state governments, and local newspaper returns

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1988-07-15

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:

  • Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. STATE LEGISLATIVE ELECTION RETURNS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1968-1989. Fifth ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1992. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08907.v5

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 14 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

1988-07-15 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:

  • Performed consistency checks.
  • Standardized missing values.
  • Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

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