Description & Citation--Study No. 75 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 75 |
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| Persistent URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00075 |
| Title: | State-Level Congressional, Gubernatorial and Senatorial Election Data for the United States, 1824-1972 |
| Principal Investigator(s): | W. Dean Burnham |
| Jerome M. Clubb | |
| William Flanigan | |
| Bibliographic Citation: | Burnham, W. Dean, Jerome M. Clubb, and William Flanigan. STATE-LEVEL CONGRESSIONAL, GUBERNATORIAL AND SENATORIAL ELECTION DATA FOR THE UNITED STATES, 1824-1972 [Computer file]. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1991. doi:10.3886/ICPSR00075 |
Scope of Study | |
| Summary: | This study contains raw and percentagized returns for all regular congressional, gubernatorial, and senatorial elections in the United States from 1824-1972. Data are provided for the number of votes cast for the major parties, including the Democratic party, the Old Republican party, the National Republican party, the Whig party, the Liberal party, and the Socialist party, and for parties whose candidates received 5 percent or more of the statewide total vote, the percentages of the votes cast for the same parties, and the estimates of voter turnout in these Congressional elections. Additional variables provide percentagized total number of citizens, Blacks, foreign-born aliens, and white aliens aged 21 and older. All data are aggregated to the state level. |
| Subject Term(s): | elections, immigrants, nineteenth century, political attitudes, political parties, state elections, states (USA), twentieth century, vote count, voter turnout |
| Geographic Coverage: | United States |
| Time Period: | 1824 - 1972 |
| Data Type: | aggregate data, and census data |
Methodology | |
| Sample: | Decennial census figures for total population, and population deemed eligible to vote by contemporary age, race, sex, and citizenship criteria, were used to compute estimates of the number of persons deemed qualified to vote in each election year. Inter-censal estimates were computed from the decennial figures, using a linear interpolation method. The resulting inter-censal estimates for total population and "eligible voters" were then used to obtain an estimate of voter turnout in an election by dividing the total votes cast in an election by the estimated population figure. |
| Data Source: | Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research |
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 |
| Version History: | The last update of this study occurred on 2006-01-12. |
| 2006-01-12 - All files were removed from dataset 8 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads. | |
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