State Legislative Election Returns, 1967-2022

Dataset contains state legislative general election returns from 1967 through 2016 for all 50 states. The years 1967 to 2016 contained in the last edition of the dataset have been extensively cleaned, and 2017 to 2022 has been added. Four files are included. The first, with prefix “127” in its file name, has the contest-candidate-party as the unit of analysis, and is the raw data that the other three files were derived from (418,894 observations). The second, with prefix “202” has the contest as the unit of analysis. The third, with prefix “203” has the chamber-general election year as the unit of analysis. The fourth, with prefix “208” has the candidate-contest as the unit of analysis. Codebooks for all four files are included. If you identify errors, please alert Carl Klarner ([e-mail]).