Redistricting Data Program: U.S. Census
Many of the suggested resources include data by state for federal-level elections.
Some also include state-level elected offices.
For more, see the State & Local tab on this guide.
CQ Press Voting and Elections
Database integrating data, analyses, concise explanations, and historical material on the American voter, political parties, campaigns and elections and historical and modern races for Congress, the presidency, and governorships. Chronological coverage varies.
Statistical Abstract of the US, Elections section
Voting and Registration Statistics
from the US Census Bureau
Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives: Election Information
Official vote counts for Presidential and Congressional elections, by state, since 1920
America Votes
American election statistics compiled biennially since 1956 (print)
Change and Continuity in the 2008 and 2010 Elections
Co-authored by Duke's John Aldrich and David Rohde, this book analyzes the National Election Study results and presents "election data in a straightforward, accessible manner with an array of thorough, yet student-friendly graphics."
America at the polls, 1960-2004, John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush : a handbook of American presidential election statistics
America at the polls: a handbook of American presidential statistics, 1920-1964
Print books that 'tell the story of U.S. presidential elections through extensive, informative, and well-organized statistics gathered from hundreds of official sources.'
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
American National Election Studies (ANES)
The book includes a CD-ROM of the NAES codebooks and data, featuring more than 200,000 interviews with adults living in the United States. The data are in both SPSS format and tab-delimited format for use with other statistical software.
Data & GIS Collections
Browse by subject/elections for more datasets available to Duke researchers.
Vital Statistics on American Politics
Historical and current data on elections, political parties, issues like the death penalty and abortion, interest groups, public opinion, social policy. Also in print in Reference.
Statistical History of the American Electorate (2001)
Chapters include: Election Laws and Suffrage; Voting Participation- turnout, mobilization, and eligibility; Presidential, House, Senate, and Gubernatorial Voting, providing an historical picture of voting behavior from the last 200 years.
Historical Statistics of the United States [electronic resource] and [hardcopy]
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
