United States Historical Election Returns, 1788-1823

This data collection contains general election
returns for the offices of president, governor, and United
States representative in the period 1788-1823. These returns
comprise an extension of the general election collection (see
United States Historical Election Returns, 1824-1968 (ICPSR 1))
back to the occurrence of the first elections held under the
United States Constitution. The data are recorded chiefly at the
county level, although town-level returns were collected and
preserved as well for the New England states. This collection of
Early National period election returns is much less complete than
the body of returns available for the years from 1824 to the
present. Fugitive and nonextant sources resulted in the recovery
of only approximately half of the possible returns for elections
in this period. The collection and processing of the pre-1824
election materials was supported by a grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities to the State Historical Society of
Wisconsin.