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Description & Citation--Study No. 6311

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:6311
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06311
 
Title:Elections to the United States House of Representatives, 1898-1992
 
Principal Investigator(s):Gary King
 
Funding Agency:National Science Foundation.
 
Grant Number:SBR-92233637
 
Bibliographic Citation:King, Gary. ELECTIONS TO THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 1898-1992 [Computer file]. ICPSR version. Cambridge, MA: Gary King [producer], 1994. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1995. doi:10.3886/ICPSR06311
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This data collection, designed to facilitate analysis of voting behavior at the district level and the effect of party incumbency on election outcomes, contains election returns for elections to the United States House of Representatives from 1898 to 1992. Votes from each biennial election are tallied by Democratic and Republican candidate and are further grouped by state and congressional district. The party of the incumbent is also indicated. These data are arranged by election year in 48 separate files. An additional file, Part 49, Exceptions Data, contains data for unusual elections, such as when the winning candidate was from a minor party or there was no Democratic-Republican pairing. These data are grouped by state and district and include the year of the election, the party of the winning candidate, and the number of votes received by the winning candidate where available.
 
Time Period:1898 - 1992
 
Date(s) of Collection:1994
 
Universe:All state voting districts for each election year from 1898 to 1992.
 
Data Type:aggregate data
 

Methodology

Data Source:1898-1984 data: CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY GUIDE TO U.S. ELECTIONS (Second Edition, 1985). 1984-1992 data: CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY WEEKLY REPORTS
 

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:1995-03-16
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2006-01-12.
 
  2006-01-12 - All files were removed from dataset 53 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: 1898 Data
  • DS2: 1900 Data
  • DS3: 1902 Data
  • DS4: 1904 Data
  • DS5: 1906 Data
  • DS6: 1908 Data
  • DS7: 1910 Data
  • DS8: 1912 Data
  • DS9: 1914 Data
  • DS10: 1916 Data
  • DS11: 1918 Data
  • DS12: 1920 Data
  • DS13: 1922 Data
  • DS14: 1924 Data
  • DS15: 1926 Data
  • DS16: 1928 Data
  • DS17: 1930 Data
  • DS18: 1932 Data
  • DS19: 1934 Data
  • DS20: 1936 Data
  • DS21: 1938 Data
  • DS22: 1940 Data
  • DS23: 1942 Data
  • DS24: 1944 Data
  • DS25: 1946 Data
  • DS26: 1948 Data
  • DS27: 1950 Data
  • DS28: 1952 Data
  • DS29: 1954 Data
  • DS30: 1956 Data
  • DS31: 1958 Data
  • DS32: 1960 Data
  • DS33: 1962 Data
  • DS34: 1964 Data
  • DS35: 1966 Data
  • DS36: 1968 Data
  • DS37: 1970 Data
  • DS38: 1972 Data
  • DS39: 1974 Data
  • DS40: 1976 Data
  • DS41: 1978 Data
  • DS42: 1980 Data
  • DS43: 1982 Data
  • DS44: 1984 Data
  • DS45: 1986 Data
  • DS46: 1988 Data
  • DS47: 1990 Data
  • DS48: 1992 Data
  • DS49: Exceptions Data
  • DS50: SPSS Data Definition Statements for All Years Files (Parts 1-48)
  • DS51: SAS Data Definition Statements for Parts 1-48
  • DS52: SAS Data Definition Statements for Part 49
 

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