Social Science Data

Voting and Elections Collection integrates a wealth of data, analyses, explanations, and historical material to provide a research and reference tool on the American voter, major and minor political parties, campaigns and elections, and historical and modern races for Congress, the presidency, and governorships.

For every national election since 1964, the U.S. Census Bureau collected data on the characteristics of American voters. Find out how many citizens of voting age are registered, and how many vote, by age and sex, race and ethnicity, and more.

First published during the Eisenhower administration, America Votes (AV) is published biennially, and since the mid-1990s has been authored or co-authored by Rhodes Cook, who brings to the volume years of election analysis experience and expertise in navigating the complicated U.S. electoral landscape.

The Atlas is an internet resource providing results of U.S. Presidential Elections to the world community. Data is collected from many official sources.

The American National Election Studies (ANES) produces high quality data on voting, public opinion, and political participation to serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and journalists who want to better understand the theoretical and empirical foundations of national election outcomes.

Nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit, OpenSecrets is a research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy. It tracks the flow of money in American politics and provides the data and analysis to strengthen democracy.

Based on research on participation in U.S. elections dating back to 1788, this work provides comprehensive turnout statistics for general and primary elections for presidential, congressional, and state gubernatorial races.

A joint project of the Center for California Studies, the ISR and the Office of the California Secretary of State. The purpose of CEDA is to provide researchers, citizens, public agencies and other interested parties with a single repository of local election data. It summarizes candidate and ballot measure results for county, city, community college and school district elections in three separate reports that have been published annually since 1995.

The Field Poll, or the California Poll, was established in 1947 by Mervin Field and has operated continuously as an independent, non-partisan, media-sponsored public opinion news service. They cover a wide range of political and social topics, including:approval of important national and statewide political figures, reactions to significant political events and hot button issues, opinions on California ballot propositions, voter awareness, understanding and predispositions of major campaign issues, party affiliation, and demographics.