DOI: 10.3886/icpsr00079
title: United States Historical Election Returns, 1788-1823
title: Archival Version

description: This data collection contains general election
returns for the offices of president, governor, and United
States representative in the period 1788-1823. These returns
comprise an extension of the general election collection (see
United States Historical Election Returns, 1824-1968 (ICPSR 1))
back to the occurrence of the first elections held under the
United States Constitution. The data are recorded chiefly at the
county level, although town-level returns were collected and
preserved as well for the New England states. This collection of
Early National period election returns is much less complete than
the body of returns available for the years from 1824 to the
present. Fugitive and nonextant sources resulted in the recovery
of only approximately half of the possible returns for elections
in this period. The collection and processing of the pre-1824
election materials was supported by a grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities to the State Historical Society of
Wisconsin.
description: The purpose of this study is to capture town and county United States historical election returns for the years 1788-1823.
description: Each dataset contains variables detailing state code, county code and/or town code, congressional district codes, candidate names, office codes, and party codes.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Connecticut Election Returns, Town-level, 1801-1823
DS2: Connecticut Election Returns, County-level, 1801-1823
DS3: Maine Election Returns, Town-level, 1801-1823
DS4: Maine Election Returns, County-level, 1801-1823
DS5: New Hampshire Election Returns, Town-level, 1788-1823
DS6: New Hampshire Election Returns, County-level, 1788-1823
DS7: Rhode Island Election Returns, Town-level, 1790-1822
DS8: Rhode Island Election Returns, County-level, 1790-1822
DS9: Vermont Election Returns, Town-level, 1793-1821
DS10: Vermont Election Returns, County-level, 1793-1821
DS11: Delaware Election Returns, 1789-1823
DS12: New Jersey Election Returns, 1789-1822
DS13: New York Election Returns, Part 1, 1789-1801
DS14: New York Election Returns, Part 2, 1802-1805
DS15: New York Election Returns, Part 3, 1806
DS16: New York Election Returns, Part 4, 1808-1810
DS17: New York Election Returns, Part 5, 1812-1815
DS18: New York Election Returns, Part 6, 1816
DS19: New York Election Returns, Part 7, 1818-1821
DS20: New York Election Results, Part 8, 1821-1823
DS21: Pennsylvania Election Returns, Part 1, 1788-1799
DS22: Pennsylvania Election Returns, Part 2, 1800-1811
DS23: Pennsylvania Election Returns, Part 3, 1812-1823
DS24: Illinois Election Returns, 1818-1822
DS25: Indiana Election Returns, 1816-1822
DS26: Ohio Election Returns, 1803-1822
DS27: Missouri Election Returns, 1820-1822
DS28: Virginia Election Returns, 1789-1823
DS29: Alabama Election Returns, 1819-1823
DS30: Georgia Election Returns, 1790-1822
DS31: Mississippi Election Returns, 1817-1823
DS32: North Carolina Election Returns, Part 1, 1790-1815
DS33: North Carolina Election Returns, Part 2, 1815-1823
DS34: South Carolina Election Returns, 1796-1823
DS35: Kentucky Election Returns, 1797-1822
DS36: Maryland Election Returns, Part 1, 1790-1804
DS37: Maryland Election Returns, Part 2, 1806-1816
DS38: Maryland Election Returns, Part 3, 1816-1822
DS39: Tennessee Election Returns, 1799-1823
description: Counties in 22 states, and towns in 5 New England
states of the United States in the period 1788-1823. Smallest Geographic Unit: Town
description: See also the related collections, United States Historical Election Returns, 1824-1968 (ICPSR 1), and Candidate Name and Constituency Totals, 1788-1990 (ICPSR 2).The
documentation for the collection, Candidate Name and Constituency Totals, 1788-1990 (ICPSR 2) is the same documentation for this study.
The information provided in ICPSR 00002 further documents the data in
ICPSR 0001, 0013 and 0079 and provides party codes for all elections.