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Description & Citation--Study No. 3938

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:3938
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03938
 
Title:Revised Candidate-Level State Legislative Returns in the United States with Adjusted Candidate Names, 1968-1989
 
Principal Investigator(s):William D. Berry, Florida State University
 
  Thomas M. Carsey, Florida State University
 
Series:State Legislative Election Returns in the United States Series
 
Funding Agency:National Science Foundation
 
Grant Number:SES-0136526
 
Bibliographic Citation:Berry, William D., and Thomas M. Carsey. REVISED CANDIDATE-LEVEL STATE LEGISLATIVE RETURNS WITH ADJUSTED CANDIDATE NAMES, 1968-1989 [Computer file]. ICPSR03938-v1. Tallahassee, FL: Florida State University [producer], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2004. doi:10.3886/ICPSR03938
 

Scope of Study

Summary:The purpose of this collection is to extend detailed study of electoral and governmental processes in the United States to the state and local levels and to encourage comparative analyses of voting patterns, political party competition, and partisan control between different states or regions. The collection, which is derived from STATE LEGISLATIVE ELECTION RETURNS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1968-1989 (ICPSR 8907), provides election data at the constituency and candidate levels for state legislative races contested in the United States between 1968 and 1989. General election returns for all 50 states are included, as well as primary election returns for 16 southern and border states. Data include returns for all candidates, from both major and minor political parties, that contested elections for seats in state legislatures, individual candidate totals at the constituency level, incumbency status, total number of votes cast for all candidates in an election, each candidate's percentage of the vote, and several measures comparing a candidate's performance with those of his or her rivals. The data also include the state postal abbreviations and state FIPS codes.
 
Subject Term(s):candidates, constituencies, counties, election returns, historical data, political history, political parties, political power, primaries, special elections, state elections, state legislatures, state politics, vote count, voting patterns
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Time Period:1968 - 1989
 
Universe:Members of the voting age population of the United States from 1968 through 1989.
 
Data Type:aggregate data
 
Data Collection Notes:This collection is derived from STATE LEGISLATIVE ELECTION RETURNS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1968-1989 (ICPSR 8907), but includes a revised candidate name variable and other additional variables.
 

Methodology

Data Source:official and unofficial election returns from state governments, and local newspaper returns
 

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:2004-06-23
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2005-12-15.
 
  2005-12-15 - On 2005-08-15 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-12-15 to reflect these additions.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Revised Candidate-Level State Legislative Returns in the United States with Adjusted Candidate Names, 1968-1989
 

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