General election data for the United States, 1968-1985
By: principal investigator, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Series: ICPSR -- 0013; ICPSR (Series) -- 0013
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: 924
Subjects: Elections; Presidents; Election; United States. Congress
Description: This study contains county-level returns for elections to the offices of president, governor, United States senator and representative, as well as returns for one additional state-wide office (usually attorney general or secretary of state) for those states which elected state offices in 1968 through 1985.
Notes: Aggregate data.

County-level election returns for the years 1974, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, and 1985 for the offices of president, governor, United States senator and Representative, and an additional statewide office in each state can be routinely supplied in two formats for the first time. They are available either as one physical file per state (the normal mode of storing and supplying returns for elections prior to 1974), or as a single national file for each year containing all counties in the United States and the votes cast for each party contesting elections anywhere in the nation. It is possible for ICPSR to perform, at the detailed instruction of scholars, operations such as percentagizing and combining of votes for various parties in these nation-scope files for 1974-1984 that will facilitate national-level analysis of these returns. Potential users of the 1974, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, and 1985 files of election data are encouraged to contact the Member Services staff to formulate specific requests for electoral returns available in this format. Part 3 of this collection contains general election data from 1950 through 1972. SPSS Control Cards have been created only for the years 1984 and 1985.

ICPSR data class: Class II.

Chronological coverage: 1968-1985.

Official election returns provided by state governments.

United States.

OSIRIS, and Card Image.

Documentation available in machine-readable format only.

Part number: 1 ; part name: National, 1974 ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 3136 ; variable count: 153 ; logical record length: 1063 ; records per case: 22.

Part number: 2 ; part name: National, 1976 ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 3136 ; variable count: 171 ; LRECL: 1189 ; records per case: 24.

Part number: 3 ; part name: National, 1950-1972 ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 3145 ; variable count: 346 ; LRECL: 1933 ; records per case: 39.

Part number: 4 ; part name: National, 1974 and 1976 ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 3136 ; variable count: 321 ; LRECL: 2229 ; records per case: 45.

Part number: 5 ; part name: National, 1978 ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 3134 ; variable count: 144 ; LRECL: 1003 ; records per case: 18.

Part number: 6 ; part name: National, 1980 ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 3133 ; variable count: 127 ; LRECL: 884 ; records per case: 16.

Part number: 7 ; part name: National, 1981 ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 409 ; variable count: 31 ; LRECL: 212 ; records per case: 4.

Part number: 8 ; part name: National, 1982 ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 3139 ; variable count: 144 ; LRECL: 1003 ; records per case: 18.

Part number: 9 ; part name: National, 1983 ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 266 ; variable count: 23 ; LRECL: 156 ; records per case: 3.

Part number: 10 ; part name: National, 1984 ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 3141 ; variable count: 165 ; LRECL: 1150 ; records per case: 21.

Part number: 11 ; part name: National, 1985 ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 192 ; variable count: 23 ; LRECL: 157 ; records per case: 3.