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Description & Citation--Study No. 2

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:2
 
Title:Candidate Name and Constituency Totals, 1788-1990
 
Principal Investigator(s):Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
 
Series:United States Historical Election Returns Series
 
Funding Agency:National Science Foundation. National Endowment for the Humanities.
 
Grant Number:RO-5637-72-464
 
Bibliographic Citation:Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. CANDIDATE NAME AND CONSTITUENCY TOTALS, 1788-1990 [Computer file]. 5th ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political Research [producer and distributor], 1995.
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This data collection provides the names of candidates, political party name and ICPSR party ID code, and the number of votes received by each candidate in the constituency for elections between 1788 and 1990. The data include county-level returns for over 90 percent of all elections to the offices of president, governor, United States representative (1824-1990), and United States senator (1912-1990). The dataset also includes returns for approximately two-thirds of all elections to the offices of president, governor, and United States representative for the period 1788-1823. Returns for one additional statewide office are included beginning with the 1968 elections. Also presented are 1990 data from the District of Columbia election for United States senator and United States representative. The offices of two senators and one representative were created by the ''District of Columbia Statehood Constitutional Convention Initiative,'' which was approved by District voters in 1980. Elections for these offices were postponed until the 1990 general election. The three offices are currently local District positions, which will turn into federal offices if the District becomes a state.
 
Subject Term(s):candidates, constituencies, elections, political attitudes, political behavior, political parties
 
Time Period:1788 - 1990
 
Universe:Candidates who ran for the offices of president, governor, and United States representative (1824-1990), United States senator (1912-1990), and one additional statewide office, usually attorney general or secretary of state (1968-1990).
 
Data Type:aggregate data
 

Methodology

Data Source:official election returns provided by state governments
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1984-06-19
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Data File
  • DS2: SAS Data Definition Statements
 

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