DOI: 10.6077/dskr-cm17
title: US President General - State and County Level Vote Data, 1964-2020

description: &lt;p&gt;This study contains files of Presidential election votes by State, County, and Town for each U.S. Presidential election year from 1964-2020. From Dave Leip, Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Note: MIT posted similar publicly available data beginning with 1976 at &lt;a href="https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/42MVDX"&gt;https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/42MVDX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Information available in each dataset&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you want to know what each Presidential Election dataset contains before downloading it, for easy reference, the CCSS Data Services team prepared a spreadsheet summarizing the contents of each dataset. You can view them in this &lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HKoncnDaUVcua4fuHCRZ9X54tmDZVDAvVWc_ndszq_A/edit#gid=0"&gt;Summary of contents and codebooks spreadsheet&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The summary spreadsheet contains the following:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A matrix table summarizing the information available in each Presidential election dataset&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Codebook describing the variables in the Presidential Election vote data at the State level&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Codebook describing the variables in the Presidential Election vote data at the County level&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Codebook describing the variables in the Presidential Election vote data at the Town level&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A matrix table listing the statistics and graphs included in each Presidential election dataset&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Labels of the variables in the State, County, and Town data, as well as a description of each tab in the dataset, are also available here: &lt;a href="https://uselectionatlas.org/BOTTOM/DOWNLOAD/spread_national.html"&gt;https://uselectionatlas.org/BOTTOM/DOWNLOAD/spread_national.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dave Leip's website&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Dave Leip website here: &lt;a href="https://uselectionatlas.org/BOTTOM/store_data.php"&gt;https://uselectionatlas.org/BOTTOM/store_data.php&lt;/a&gt; has additional years of data available going back to 1912 but at a fee.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the files are updated by Dave Leip, and new versions are made available, but CCSS is not notified. If you suspect the file you want may be updated, please get in touch with CCSS Data Discovery and Replication Services. These files were last checked for updates in June 2024.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Note that file version numbers are those assigned to them by Dave Leip's Election Atlas. Please refer to the CCSS Data and Reproduction Archive Version number in your citations for the full dataset.&lt;/p&gt;
description: Dave Leip's Election Atlas
description: version_history: Version 2 - added 2020 data, changed title and time period to reflect addition. -jb

Version 3 - added new versions of data files and csv versions for 1964-2016. Converted remaining xlx files to xlsx. Added documentation file. -jb
Year Data Format Version Version Date
1964 xlsx 1.0 12/09/2007
1968 xls to xlsx 1.0 12/5/2007
1972 xls to xlsx 1.0 12/5/2007
1976 xls to xlsx 1.0 12/5/2007
1980 xlsx 1.2 06/06/2020
1984 xlsx 1.2 06/06/2020
1988 xlsx 1.1 06/06/2020
1992 xlsx 1.4 06/06/2020
1996 xlsx 1.4 06/06/2020
2000 xlsx 1.3 11/12/2013
2004 xlsx 1.2 05/08/2015
2008 xlsx 1.10 11/12/2013
2012 xlsx 1.4 10/20/2016
2016 xlsx 1.1 10/25/2020
2020 xlsx 1.0 04/28/2021

Changed title from Presidential Election Votes by State and County, 1964-2020 to align better with Leip's site. Per Florio. -jb 10 JAN 2023