Q. Where can I find voter turnout statistics?
Answered By: Kathryn Ray Last Updated: Apr 21, 2023 Views: 90
Answered By: Kathryn Ray
Last Updated: Apr 21, 2023 Views: 90
Here are some sources to get you started:
- In election years, the Current Population Survey collects data on reported voting and registration, and later reports stats by turnout, age, race and origin.
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Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Elections provides access to election statistics from United States races for President, Governor, House of Representatives, and Senate, as well as voter turnout figures. Data is in Excel and/or CSV format. Coverage dates are from 1912, and coverage varies by type of election. Alternative Name: Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections
- Analysis and statistics on U.S. presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial elections.
State government-issued statistical information - search by state name and election using https://www.usa.gov/ or limit your Google search to government websites using Site:.gov "election statistics"
- This Massachusetts Institute of Technology “lab is a clearinghouse for data sets that can fuel studies on elections and how they're conducted. Find election data and research tools produced by us and others.”
- Elections Data - Research Guide: Turnout and Returns
- This resource includes both publicly available and non-publicly available datasets on public policy and social science research. NOTE: Access to datasets requires a free user-specific login. To log in using your existing account or to create a new account, click on "MyData Login/Create Account" from the ICPSR page.
- The Data Citation Index on the Web of Science platform provides a single point of access to quality research data from repositories across disciplines and around the world. It also offers recommended data citations.
- Alternative Name(s) & Keywords: SAGE Stats
- U.S. statistical information from the American Statistics Index. Includes Statistical Abstract of the United States and a selection of full-text documents. As of June 2021, includes SAGE State Stats and SAGE Local Stats featuring statistical data series created from government and non-government datasets, covering topics of research interest for U.S. states, counties, cities, and metropolitan areas.
- Searchable database of over 14 million (as of March 2019) metadata records for works that have been assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), including datasets, texts, and images. (For background information on DOIs, see https://subjectguides.library.american.edu/dois).
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