U.S. Elections & Political Behavior

Includes elections to a wide variety of county and city offices. Covers jurisdictions across more than 20 states with some temporal coverage back to 1970. LEAP is not fully operational yet, but interested academic users may contact the PIs directly for access to data.

Federal, state, county, city, and school board election results. Export individual election results as Excel files.
(Note: historical election results are still being added to this ongoing project)

CEDA summarizes candidate and ballot measure results for county, city, community college and school district elections. Reports in PDF and data in Excel. 1995–

Searchable collection of early American election returns, including elections for state House and Senate, governor, sheriffs, commissioners, city councils, mayors, and much more. Narrow by state, year, office, jurisdiction, party, and election type. Full datasets for each state can also be downloaded.

A new dataset of about 78,000 candidates in 57,000 electoral contests that encompasses races for seven distinct local political offices in most medium and large cities and counties in the U.S. over the last three decades. This is the most comprehensive publicly-available source of information on local elections across the country. We provide partisan and demographic information about candidates in these races as well as electoral outcomes.