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Elections Survey Data
- iPoll Databank This link opens in a new window
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U.S. public opinion poll data, organized at the question level from the Roper Center, 1942 - current.
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- Pew Research Center: Politics and Policy
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See the most recent surveys or explore by topic. - American National Election Studies (ANES)
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Long-running series of survey data on voting, public opinion, and political participation. 1960 - 2012. - ANES: SDA archive
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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. - General Social Survey (GSS): NORC ProjectLong running survey of social, cultural, and political indicators. Download the dataset or analyze it online.
- Roper - Elections and PresidentsQuestions about vote choice for president, Congress, gubernatorial races, important issues affecting the vote decision, presidential approval, and a number of current national, state, and local issues. Includes basic demographic variables, such as gender, race, education, income, and age. In most years, exit polls are only conducted in a selection of the states.
More Elections Data & Statistics
- MIT Election LabMIT's "clearinghouse for data sets that can fuel studies on elections and how they're conducted."
- CQ Voting and Elections Collection This link opens in a new window
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A collection of data and analyses of US elections, including data on presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial elections, political parties, campaigns, and demographic information. Covers presidential election results from 1789 and forward. Note: You can also search across all of the CQ Press reference resources here. - Social Explorer This link opens in a new window
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Get quick and easy access to current and historical U.S. census data and demographic information. Covers 1790 - 2010.
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