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This collection provides the names of candidates, the candidates' political party name and ICPSR party ID code, and the number of votes received by each candidate in the constituency for elections between 1788-1985. The data include county-level returns for over ninety percent of all elections to the offices of president, governor, United States representative (1824-1985), and United States senator (1912-1985). The dataset also include returns for approximately two-thirds of all elections to the offices of president, governor, and United States representative for the period 1788-1823. Returns for one additional state-wide office are included beginning with the 1968 elections.
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Candidate name and constituency totals, 1788-1985
1980, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
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Edition Notes
Aggregate data.
ICPSR data class: Class II.
Chronological coverage: 1788-1985.
Official election returns provided by state governments.
United States.
National Science Foundation. National Endowment for the Humanities, RO-5637-72-464.
Card Image with SPSS control cards.
Part number: 1 ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 115,449 ; variable count: 13 ; logical record length: 80 ; records per case: 1.
Universe: Candidates who ran for the offices of president, governor, and United States representative (1824-1985), United States senator (1912-1985) and one additional state- wide office, usually attorney general or secretary of state (1968-1985).