/presidential_general_elections

Presidential General Elections Data 2000 through 2016

Primary LanguageJupyter Notebook

US Presidential General Elections 2000 through 2016

To get the transformed data and scripts

git clone https://github.com/stoneyv/presidential_general_elections.git
  • Transformed data for 2000 through 2016 is in the output folder.
  • Transformed data uses USGS for 2004, 2008,and 2012.
  • Transformed data uses Federal Elections Project for 2000.
  • The source of original data is cited.
  • Original USGS and Federal Elections Project data is in the data/ folder.
  • The transformation of data may be replicated using the jupyter ipython notebooks.
  • Alaskan data is not satisfactory. Resolving boroughs from precinct/district data.
  • The scripts folder contains R based code that produces plots.
  • The images folder contains plots that were produced with the scripts or notebooks.

Year % Votes

by County
% Dem Votes

by County
% Rep Votes

by County
% Voter participation

by State
csv file
2016 csv file
2012 csv file
2008 csv file
2004 csv file
2000 csv file

Data Sources

Tony McGovern 2016 Presidential General Election (unofficial results)

NOTE: Alaska vote entries for 2016 are currently repeated state totals. This will be resolved soon. Also, Each secretary of state has a different date for official certification of elections which occurs before the electoral college vote in December.

USGS 2012 Presidential General Election

County Results
https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/presidential-general-election-results-2012-direct-download

USGS 2008 Presidential General Election

County Results
https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/2008-presidential-general-election-county-results-direct-download

USGS 2004 Presidential General Election

County Results
https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/2004-presidential-general-election-county-results-direct-download

David Lublin and D. Stephen Voss. 2001. "Federal Elections Project." American University, Washington, DC and the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.

2000 Election Data By State

http://www.american.edu/spa/ccps/Data-Sets.cfm

Associate Professor Dr Michael McDonald, "United States Election Project" Department of Political Science, University of Florida

http://www.electproject.org/home/voter-turnout/voter-turnout-data

Census 2010 FIPS

https://www.census.gov/geo/reference/codes/cou.html http://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/reference/codes/files/national_county.txt

Census 2015,2013,2010,2000 shapefiles

https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/cbf/cbf_counties.html

Census ACS5 2009 through 2015 (American Community Survey 5 year API)

http://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/acs-5year.html


Other Potential Data Sources

The Guardian, Full US 2012 election county-level results

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/nov/07/us-2012-election-county-results-download https://fusiontables.google.com/DataSource?docid=1qcQLqrAIAe3RcEfdWSm_QcXMLmteVg4uSpSs1rM#rows:id=1

The Guardian, 2008 presidential election results by state and county

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2009/mar/02/us-elections-2008 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gLzjUFBk9gtAPfZ-bNZVfFC1zNhGkY_WI_VD_OXHUYI/edit#gid=0

Daily Kos presidential election results by congressional district

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VfkHtzBTP5gf4jAu8tcVQgsBJ1IDvXEHjuMqYlOgYbA/edit#gid=0
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/146z3cDVx5WGCprbKGFSMeGfyTFfIlE8SbjrLQ0sfkBI/edit#gid=0

history.house.gov Election Statistics, 1920 to Present

http://history.house.gov/Institution/Election-Statistics/Election-Statistics/

Harvard Election Data Archive

http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/eda/pages/about

Open Elections

http://openelections.net/ https://github.com/openelections

Library of Congress, US Election Statistics

https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/elections/statistics.html

Census voter demographics by region 2004,2008,2012,2014

2014
http://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/voting-and-registration/p20-577.html
2012
http://www.census.gov/data/tables/2012/demo/voting-and-registration/p20-568.html
2008 pdf
http://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/p20-562.pdf
2004 pdf
http://www.census.gov/prod/2006pubs/p20-556.pdf

Voter Registration Statistics

Michigan 1998 through 2014
http://www.michigan.gov/sos/0,8611,7-127-1633_8722---,00.html
Pennsylvania 1995 through 2015, missing 2011
http://www.dos.pa.gov/VotingElections/OtherServicesEvents/VotingElectionStatistics/Pages/Annual-Reports-on-Voter-Registration.aspx
Wisconsin 2008 through 2015
http://elections.wi.gov/elections-voting/statistics

Princeton 2016 Election Polling data

http://election.princeton.edu/code/data/

The American Presidency Project

no election county/precinct results, polling and other
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/index.php