DOI: 10.3886/icpsr00079.v1
title: United States Historical Election Returns, 1788-1823
title: Version 1

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 0001) 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: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables..
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: United States Historical Election Returns Series
description: (1) See also the related collections, UNITED STATES HISTORICAL ELECTION RETURNS, 1788-1968 (ICPSR 0001), and CANDIDATE NAME AND CONSTITUENCY TOTALS, 1788-1990 (ICPSR 0002). (2) The documentation for the collection, CANDIDATE NAME AND CONSTITUENCY TOTALS, 1788-1990 (ICPSR 0002) is the same documentation for this study. The information provided in ICPSR 0002 further documents the data in ICPSR 0001, 0013 and 0079 and provides party codes for all elections. A listing of all parties, organized by party code number, is also found in dataset 0204 of ICPSR 0001.
description: Counties in 22 states, and towns in 5 New England states of the United States in the period 1788-1823.