Historical Elections

Interactive visualizations of how Americans voted in presidential elections from 1840-2008 down to the county level.

Archive of presidential campaign commercials from 1952 - 2008 provided by the Museum of the Moving Image.

The non-profit, non-partisan arbitrating body that coordinates the presidential debate process provides information, transcripts, and video about presidential debates from many past elections.

Information on reported voting and registration by various demographic and socioeconomic characteristics is collected during Presidential election years by the Current Population Survey (CPS).

The VSBE provides information on elections and election statistics.

Every two years, the Commission publishes Federal Elections, a compilation of the official, certified federal election results obtained from each state’s election office and other official sources. Provides primary, runoff, and general election results for the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives and, when applicable, U.S. President.

Data summaries by state for every presidential election.

ICPSR's holdings of historical election data cover the years 1788-1990 and consist of several discrete datasets that contain county- and state-level returns for all elections to the offices of president, governor, United States senator, and United States representative.