Long-running series of survey data on voting, public opinion, and political participation. 1960 - 2012.

Online analysis of American National Election Survey from Berkeley's Survey Data Analysis. This is a great place to start if you want to explore questions asked, get initial frequencies, or select individual questions across surveys for data download.

Supplementary Empirical Teaching Units in Political Science (SETUPS) are modules designed for use in teaching introductory courses in American government and politics. The modules are intended to demonstrate the process of examining evidence and reaching conclusions in a way that stimulates students to think independently and critically, with a deeper understanding of substantive content.

Online data analysis from Berkeley's Survey Documentation and Archive for the General Social Survey. This is a great place to start exploring the General Social Survey, look at frequencies for individual questions, select individual questions for data download.

The NORC project web site contains additional information about the survey and an easy to use codebook that lists the variables by subject.

DW-Nominate and Roll Call data from Keith Poole.

Comparative data on the cost and administration of elections.

Detailed federal election results for most countries in the world, for most recent elections, often by party by district.

Results by country; not currently updated but has historical data.

Federal and provincial election surveys, voting results, campaign finances.

These datasets from John Carey at Dartmouth include analysis of constitutions, legislative voting, elections in Latin America, and electoral system design.

Participating studies include common questions in their post-election surveys.

"The central aim of the Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA) project is to produce a repository of detailed results - including votes received by each candidate/party, total votes cast, number of eligible voters, and seat figures where available - at a constituency level for the lower house legislative elections that have been conducted around the world."

Available from ICPSR (Carleton only):
Codes elections and election monitoring for hundreds of countries, 1980-2004.

Covers 867 legislative elections, 294 presidential elections, regime types, district size, assembly size, and more variables across 199 countries from Matt Golder at NYU. He also includes links to other useful elections datasets.

Strength of political parties by ideology in capitalist democracies.

From Dave Lublin, constituency election results for over 80 countries.

Information on dates and links to websites for election results from around the world.

From the Center on Democratic Performance at Binghamton University, election results from 134 democratic countries back to 1974.

Election results for 18 Western European countries from 1815 until 2000. A CD-Rom that accompanies the book.

Wilfried Derksen migrated his respected resource Election World to Wikipedia last year. Very comprehensive but use with caution knowing Wikipedia's open editing policy.

Regularly updated voter turnout statistics for national presidential and parliamentary elections since 1945 using registered voters and voting age participation (VAP).

Provides information on the results of both national and subnational elections around the world. These data are presented at two levels of analysis, allowing users to quickly identify the results of elections within a country as a whole or within particular constituencies or districts of a country. All parties are included in the database regardless of the number of votes that they won. The data are based on countries' official election results and have been amassed from various government institutions. Data in Excel format. Dates vary, but generally 1945-2007.

From UCSB, chronologies and a bibliography of helpful sources when researching LAC elections.

Web archives related to a number of international elections and the U.S. 2000 - 2008 elections. (Archived.)

"Static research collection of district level election results for approximately 350 national legislative elections in 26 countries that was maintained through 2003." Some data is also available for download

Website by Wolfram Nordsieck provides a database about parliamentary elections in Europe since 1945 plus information about parties and electoral systems.

Variety of useful shared datasets covering regime types, elections, civil liberties, and much more.

Data from CSD-sponsored projects measuring political participation and attitudes.