Library Guides: U.S. Executive Branch-The President: Presidential Elections

Election Results

The following provide information on presidential elections, including campaign information.

Living Room Candidate: Historical Presidential Campaign Commercials This link opens in a new window
An archive of historic and current political advertisements from television and the internet. Most clips include transcripts.
An archive of historic and current political advertisements from television and the internet. Most clips include transcripts.
Voting America: United States Politics, 1840-2008 This link opens in a new window
Offers a wide spectrum of animated and interactive visualizations of how Americans voted in elections over the past years. You can also find expert analysis and commentary videos that discuss some of the most interesting and significant trends in American political history.
Provides cinematic and interactive maps, and analysis, of the Presidential elections in the US from 1840-2004. Focuses on election data to the county level (rather than state). Allows users to compare elections as well as recognize the significance of individual elections by geographic region, political party, voter turnout, voter demographics, and more.

Dave Leip’s Atlas of US Presidential Elections

Vanderbilt Television Index This link opens in a new window
Individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and hours of special news-related programming.
Holding more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989. These special reports and periodic news broadcasts cover presidential press conferences and political campaign coverage, and national and international events.

ICPSR

ICPSR provides a wealth of data on numerous social science topics. Data can be downloaded into many statistical packages (R, Stata, SPSS, etc). You need to create a user/name and password using your berkeley.edu email address to download the data. Below are some of their election data sources.

Electoral Data for Counties in the United States: Presidential and Congressional Races, 1840-1972 (ICPSR 8611)
County-level election results from 1840-1972. UCB ONLY.
State-Level Presidential Election Data for the United States, 1824-1972 (ICPSR 19)
State level election data for 1824-1972. UCB ONLY
General Election Data for the United States, 1950-1990 (ICPSR 13)
Data for 1950-1990. UCB ONLY
State-Level Congressional, Gubernatorial and Senatorial Election Data for the United States, 1824-1972 (ICPSR 75)
Data from 1824-1972. UCB ONLY
Candidate Name and Constituency Totals, 1788-1990 (ICPSR 2)
Names of candidates, political party name and ICPSR party ID code, and the number of votes received by each candidate in elections between 1788 and 1990. UCB ONLY
United States Congressional District Data Books, 1961-1965 (ICPSR 10)
Contains district level election data for 1961-65, data for the House of Representatives elections from 1952-1962, and presidential elections from 1952-1960. Also provides population and housing characteristics for each district.

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Election Results

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