Election Data Resources

Official site for election results from the West Virginia Secretary of State's office.
Date Range | 1950 - present

Data on candidate contributions and spending in West Virginia.

This data collection incorporates county-level election returns from 15 states for various statewide offices in the period 1874-1952. Included are votes cast for party candidates contesting a variety of offices such as lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state, treasurer, and auditor.
West Virginia Date Range | 1904 - 1948

This collection consists of numerous studies for congressional and/or gubernatorial vote questions in addition to questions on important statewide and local issues at the time of the polls.

rimary exit polls datasets include standard demographic makeup of interviewee and questions pertinent to the issues of each state.

Popular site of U.S. election data that provides tables, graphs, and maps for presidential (1789-present), senatorial (1990+), and gubernatorial (1990+) elections.

Election returns by state and precinct.
Date Range | 2000 - present

ICPSR's holdings of historical election data cover the years 1788-1990 and consist of several discrete datasets that contain county- and state-level returns for all elections to the offices of president, governor, United States senator, and United States representative.

Candidate and state information.
Date Range | 2009 - present

Presents state election results from 2013 to the present and state party composition from 1978 to the present. Also contains a statewide ballot measures database that includes all statewide ballot measures in the 50 states and the District of Columbia, starting over a century ago.

Thorough, extensive in scope, and meticulously researched, America Votes includes official, state-certified election returns and key data by county and by district for the House, Senate, and gubernatorial elections. Link goes to 2017-2018 edition. See Read next section for additional volumes.
Date Range | 2011 - present

State legislative general election and (some) primary returns mostly at the district level.
Date Range | 1967 - 2016

Searchable collection of early American election returns, including elections for state House and Senate, governor, sheriffs, commissioners, city councils, mayors, and much more. Narrow by state, year, office, jurisdiction, party, and election type. Full datasets for each state can also be downloaded.
Date Range | 1787 - 1825

Primary and general elections returns for more than 4000 statewide referenda, constitutional amendments, state House and Senate joint resolutions, and initiatives.
Date Range | 1968 - 1990

Site with election results for a variety of statewide offices, including governor, in many cases covering much of the 20th century.

Data on 9,131 mayoral elections in which approx. 10,000 unique candidates ran in 1,016 cities of all sizes.
Date Range | 1950 - 2014

Data on county legislative elections and fiscal policy in medium and large counties with partisan elections and with a population of more than 150,000 people.
Date Range | 1990 - 2014