LibGuides: Data Sources: Politics and Elections

Key Resources

Data.gov

Data-Planet

Trinity subscribes to the Basic module, EASI Market Planner, and the China Data Center (Subnational Data).
ICPSR
Social Explorer

Individual accounts now required as of Dec. 2018.

Fact Checking

Fact Check
This nonpartisan, nonprofit project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by U.S. political players, including politicians, TV ads, debates, interviews and news releases.
Field Guide to Fake News
The guide looks at how digital methods, data, tools, techniques and research approaches can be utilized in the service of increasing public understanding of the politics, production, circulation and responses to fake
Open Secrets
This nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit website run by the Center for Responsive Politics tracks how much and where candidates get their money.
PolitiFact
PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter.

Politics and Elections

American National Election Studies 1948-
Survey of voting behavior in the United States, conducted biennially since 1956. Basic questions on religious identification and attendance at religious services have been asked throughout the time series, but the religion module was widened starting in 1990. Contains links to download all the data.
American Public Opinion and US Foreign Policy Series
This series of quadrennial studies was designed to investigate the opinions and attitudes of the general public and a select group of opinion leaders on matters relating to United States foreign policy and to define the parameters of public opinion within which decision-makers must operate. Data covers 1992-present.
Center for American Women and Politics

The Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is nationally recognized as the leading source of scholarly research and current data about American women’s political participation. This site presents data and analysis of women's voting behavior, including statistics on turnout and the gender gap in voting.

Comparative Study of Electoral Systems
The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) is a collaborative program of cross-national research among election studies conducted in over fifty states.
Federal Election Commission
Detailed data on campaign contributions and expenditures by candidates, parties, and committees.
Roper iPoll Elections
Includes vote by demographic group, on national and state elections, and key polling indicators of public attitudes at the time of presidential elections.
United States Historical Election Returns
Since 1920, the Clerk of the House has collected and published the official vote counts for federal elections from the official sources among the various states and territories.