US Presidential General Elections 2000 through 2016

To get the transformed data and scripts

git clone https://github.com/stoneyv/presidential_general_elections.git

• Transformed data for 2000 through 2016 is in the output folder.
• Transformed data uses USGS for 2004, 2008,and 2012.
• Transformed data uses Federal Elections Project for 2000.
• The source of original data is cited.
• Original USGS and Federal Elections Project data is in the data/ folder.
• The transformation of data may be replicated using the jupyter ipython notebooks.
• Alaskan data is not satisfactory. Resolving boroughs from precinct/district data.
• The scripts folder contains R based code that produces plots.
• The images folder contains plots that were produced with the scripts or notebooks.

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Year	% Votes by County	% Dem Votes by County	% Rep Votes by County	% Voter participation by State	csv file
2016					csv file
2012					csv file
2008					csv file
2004					csv file
2000					csv file

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Data Sources

Tony McGovern 2016 Presidential General Election (unofficial results)

NOTE: Alaska vote entries for 2016 are currently repeated state totals. This will be resolved soon. Also, Each secretary of state has a different date for official certification of elections which occurs before the electoral college vote in December.

• https://github.com/tonmcg/County_Level_Election_Results_12-16
• http://townhall.com/election/2016/president/
• https://www.elections.alaska.gov/index.php

USGS 2012 Presidential General Election

County Results
https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/presidential-general-election-results-2012-direct-download

USGS 2008 Presidential General Election

County Results
https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/2008-presidential-general-election-county-results-direct-download

USGS 2004 Presidential General Election

County Results
https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/2004-presidential-general-election-county-results-direct-download

David Lublin and D. Stephen Voss. 2001. "Federal Elections Project." American University, Washington, DC and the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.

2000 Election Data By State

http://www.american.edu/spa/ccps/Data-Sets.cfm

Associate Professor Dr Michael McDonald, "United States Election Project" Department of Political Science, University of Florida

http://www.electproject.org/home/voter-turnout/voter-turnout-data

Census 2010 FIPS

https://www.census.gov/geo/reference/codes/cou.html http://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/reference/codes/files/national_county.txt

Census 2015,2013,2010,2000 shapefiles

https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/cbf/cbf_counties.html

Census ACS5 2009 through 2015 (American Community Survey 5 year API)

http://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/acs-5year.html

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Other Potential Data Sources

The Guardian, Full US 2012 election county-level results

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/nov/07/us-2012-election-county-results-download https://fusiontables.google.com/DataSource?docid=1qcQLqrAIAe3RcEfdWSm_QcXMLmteVg4uSpSs1rM#rows:id=1

The Guardian, 2008 presidential election results by state and county

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2009/mar/02/us-elections-2008 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gLzjUFBk9gtAPfZ-bNZVfFC1zNhGkY_WI_VD_OXHUYI/edit#gid=0

Daily Kos presidential election results by congressional district

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VfkHtzBTP5gf4jAu8tcVQgsBJ1IDvXEHjuMqYlOgYbA/edit#gid=0
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/146z3cDVx5WGCprbKGFSMeGfyTFfIlE8SbjrLQ0sfkBI/edit#gid=0

history.house.gov Election Statistics, 1920 to Present

http://history.house.gov/Institution/Election-Statistics/Election-Statistics/

Harvard Election Data Archive

http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/eda/pages/about

Open Elections

http://openelections.net/ https://github.com/openelections

Library of Congress, US Election Statistics

https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/elections/statistics.html

Census voter demographics by region 2004,2008,2012,2014

2014
http://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/voting-and-registration/p20-577.html
2012
http://www.census.gov/data/tables/2012/demo/voting-and-registration/p20-568.html
2008 pdf
http://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/p20-562.pdf
2004 pdf
http://www.census.gov/prod/2006pubs/p20-556.pdf

Voter Registration Statistics

Michigan 1998 through 2014
http://www.michigan.gov/sos/0,8611,7-127-1633_8722---,00.html
Pennsylvania 1995 through 2015, missing 2011
http://www.dos.pa.gov/VotingElections/OtherServicesEvents/VotingElectionStatistics/Pages/Annual-Reports-on-Voter-Registration.aspx
Wisconsin 2008 through 2015
http://elections.wi.gov/elections-voting/statistics

Princeton 2016 Election Polling data

http://election.princeton.edu/code/data/

The American Presidency Project

no election county/precinct results, polling and other
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/index.php