Open Access Data

The central aim of the Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA) project is to produce a repository of detailed results - including votes received by each candidate/party, total votes cast, number of eligible voters, and seat figures where available - at a constituency level for the lower house legislative elections that have been conducted around the world.

The Constituency-Level Elections (CLE) dataset provides national and subnational election data at the district level of government for democratic countries around the world. The data are based on countries' official election results that have been collected from various government institutions (e.g. electoral commissions, ministries of interior, statistical offices and legislative bodies).

Campaign finance reports and data.

This section relates primarily to presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial elections. Also presented are summary tables on congressional legislation; state legislatures; Black, Hispanic, and female officeholders; population of voting age; voter participation; and campaign finances.

Official vote counts for federal elections from the official sources among the various states and territories.1920-

Information on reported voting and registration by various demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, collected for the nation in November of Congressional and Presidential election years in the Current Population Survey (CPS). (about 50,000 households) by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Voting supplement does not provide estimates of partisianship, such as what candidate a voter supported or with what political party a voter aligned themselves.

Data from surveys.

Table 6.8 Voter Turnout For Presidential Elections By Region: 2000, 2004 and 2008 (In thousands): Download in Excel or PDF

Table 6.7 Voting Statistics For Gubernatorial Elections by Region: Download in Excel or PDF

U.S. and International Data.

State level tab delimited results and also shapefiles for mapping.

Maps of voting results back to 1789.

Our Record Of American Democracy (ROAD) data include election returns, socioeconomic summaries, and demographic measures of the American public at unusually low levels of geographic aggregation.

Federal votes cast for president by counties back to 1980.