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Political Science

This guide is to help facilitate successful political science research.

United States Voting Resources 


  • MIT Election Data & Science Lab
    Includes precinct-level data for Presidential, Senate, House, state, and local elections starting with 2016. Also includes constituency-level Presidential, Senate, and House returns back to 1976 and county-level returns for the Presidency back to 2000. Also available via website and Github
  • United States Census Bureau Voting and Registration 
    For every national election since 1964, the Census Bureau has collected data on the characteristics of American voters. Find out how many citizens of voting age are registered, and how many vote, by age and sex, race and ethnicity, and more.
  • A New Nation Votes
    A New Nation Votes is a searchable collection of election returns from the earliest years of American democracy. The data was compiled by Philip Lampi. The American Antiquarian Society and Tufts Archival Research Center have mounted it online for you with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
  • American National Election Studies 
    To serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policymakers, and journalists, the ANES produces high-quality data from its own surveys on voting, public opinion, and political participation. Central to this mission is the active involvement of the ANES research community in all phases of the project.
  • United States Election Assistance Commission
    The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) is an independent, bipartisan commission whose mission is to help election officials improve the administration of elections and help Americans participate in the voting process.
  • Federal Elections Commission 
    The Federal Election Commission (FEC) is the independent regulatory agency charged with administering and enforcing the federal campaign finance law. The FEC has jurisdiction over the financing of campaigns for the U.S. House, Senate, Presidency and the Vice Presidency.
  • League of Women Voters
    The League of Women Voters is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization working to protect and expand voting rights and ensure everyone is represented in our democracy. We empower voters and defend democracy through advocacy, education, and litigation, at the local, state, and national levels.
  • The Electoral College from the National Archives
    The Office of the Federal Register (OFR) is a part of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and, on behalf of the Archivist of the United States, coordinates certain functions of the Electoral College between the States and Congress.