United States historical election returns, 1788-1823
By: principal investigator, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Series: ICPSR -- 0079; ICPSR (Series) -- 0079
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: Elections; Voting; Politics and government
Description: Data for general elections to the offices of president, governor, and United States representative for the years 1788-1823 are contained in this study. These returns comprise an extension of the general election collection (see United States Historical Election Returns, 1788-1984--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.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class II.

Chronological coverage: 1788-1823.

United States; county-level.

The collection and processing of the pre-1824 election materials was upported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

There are approximately 90,000 card-image equivalents.

Related files: United States historical election returns, 1788-1984 (ICPSR study; 0001)