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The ANES series is one of the premier sources for data on voting behavior and political attitudes in the post-WWII United States. Upon registering (which is free), users can download data and SAS/SPSS/Stata program files and documentation for any of the various NES studies. The SDA Archive at UC-Berkeley also allows users to access recent versions of the ANES and extract particular variables from them for those who have specific questions in which they are interested.
The ANES Guide is an excellent source for data on trends in voting behavior for the US since World War II.
This site contains data and documentation for a cross-national collection of election studies. The CSES combines microdata on respondents with data at different levels of geography (i.e. data on respondents' electoral districts and on the political institutions of their countries) and focuses on themes such as how macro-level variables such as electoral systems affect political attitudes.
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 CLE Dataset is a project undertaken by Professor Dawn Brancati at Washington University in St. Louis and is a compilation of district-level election results broken by down individual political parties. The data cover national elections and some sub-national elections as well.
The Federal Elections Project, hosted by American University, distributes precinct-level data on U.S. federal elections from 2000.
an intergovernmental organization, provides comprehensive political participation statistics since 1945 including total vote, voting age, percentage of voters to registered, etc.
The ROAD project, which was headed by Harvard Professor Gary King, collected data on election returns, political behavior, demographics, and boundaries at small levels of geography (e.g. precincts).
Election Administration by the Numbers: An Analysis of Available Datasets and How to Use Them, 2012. This report from the Pew Center on the States discusses strengths and weaknesses of several major datasets for studying election administration.
The ANES series is one of the premier sources for data on voting behavior and political attitudes in the post-WWII United States. Upon registering (which is free), users can download data and SAS/SPSS/Stata program files and documentation for any of the various NES studies. The SDA Archive at UC-Berkeley also allows users to access recent versions of the ANES and extract particular variables from them for those who have specific questions in which they are interested.
The ANES Guide is an excellent source for data on trends in voting behavior for the US since World War II.
This site contains data and documentation for a cross-national collection of election studies. The CSES combines microdata on respondents with data at different levels of geography (i.e. data on respondents' electoral districts and on the political institutions of their countries) and focuses on themes such as how macro-level variables such as electoral systems affect political attitudes.
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 CLE Dataset is a project undertaken by Professor Dawn Brancati at Washington University in St. Louis and is a compilation of district-level election results broken by down individual political parties. The data cover national elections and some sub-national elections as well.
The Federal Elections Project, hosted by American University, distributes precinct-level data on U.S. federal elections from 2000.
an intergovernmental organization, provides comprehensive political participation statistics since 1945 including total vote, voting age, percentage of voters to registered, etc.
The ROAD project, which was headed by Harvard Professor Gary King, collected data on election returns, political behavior, demographics, and boundaries at small levels of geography (e.g. precincts).
Election Administration by the Numbers: An Analysis of Available Datasets and How to Use Them, 2012. This report from the Pew Center on the States discusses strengths and weaknesses of several major datasets for studying election administration.
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