United States Historical Election Returns, 1824-1968

<p>This collection of historical election data contains state files that list county-level returns for over 90 percent of all elections to the offices of president, governor, United States senator, and United States representative from 1824 through 1968. The data files include returns for all parties and candidates (as well as write-in and scattering votes if available for individual states), and for special elections as well as regularly-scheduled contests. Over 1,000 individual party names and many additional unaffiliated candidates are included. Datafiles include State election results upto 1974. Please review datasets to determine timelines for each state.</p>
<p><strong>Please Note</strong>: This dataset is part of the historical CISER Data Archive Collection and is also available at ICPSR at <a href="https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00001.v3">https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00001.v3</a>. We highly recommend using the ICPSR version as they may make this dataset available in multiple data formats in the future.</p>