Electoral data for counties in the United States
Subtitle: presidential con congressional races, 1840-1972
By: principal investigators, Jerome M. Clubb, William H. Flanigan, and Nancy H. Zingale
Series: ICPSR -- 8611; ICPSR (Series) -- 8611
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] :
Number of pages: 650
Subjects: Elections; Statistics; Voting; Presidents; Election; United States. Congress
Description: This collection contains county-level returns for elections to the United States presidency and to the United States House of Representatives for the years 1840 to 1972. The variables for the presidential vote include the percentages of ballots cast for major and "significant" minor party candidates (with residual votes collapsed into an "other" category), total numbers of votes for all candidates in an election, and estimates of voter turnout in the presidential elections. There are similar variables for the congressional vote except that returns are reported for parties and not for candidates. Congressional district numbers are also reported for each county for every election.
Notes: Aggregate data.

ICPSR data class: Class I.

Chronological coverage: 1840-1972.

(1) "United States Historical Election Returns, 1788-1978" (ICPSR 0001), and (2) "Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-1970" (ICPSR 0003).

United States.

National Science Foundation, GS-28913, GS-42717, GS-28911, GS-42730, and GS-42733.

OSIRIS and Card Image, with SPSS Control Cards for each.

Part number: 1 ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 3,393 ; variable count: 759 ; LRECL: 3,237 ; records per case: 50.

Population of voters in presidential and congressional elections, 1840-1972.

Clubb, Jerome M., William H. Flanigan, and Nancy H. Zingale. Partisan realignment: voters, parties, and government in American history. Beverly Hills, Sage Publications, 1980.

Clubb, Jerome M., William H. Flanigan, and Nancy H. Zingale, eds. Analyzing electoral history: a guide to the study of American voter behavior. Beverly Hills, Sage Publications, 1981.