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This nationwide dataset sourced from election officials, available through CTCL's API as well as Google's Civic Information API, includes federal, state and local candidates, as well as their party affiliation, the office they're seeking, contact information, websites and social media handles.
This Github repository includes tools for reporters working with election data.
This website run by programmer Dave Leip has been alive since 1997. It includes election results for presidential, U.S. Senate and gubernatorial races, and offers more detailed county data sets for a fee.
Dig in to individual county data to see the technology officials are using to count ballots. Journalists can then read more about the technology (including how it works, where else it's used and how accessible it is) and see the individual manufacturer.
The lab's Voting and Election Science Team produces interactive maps based on individual precinct-level data for recent U.S. elections.
The lab's massive database on voter turnout goes from 1789 to the present, and lets users examine voter turnout demographics, as well as for specific selected recent elections.
Daily Kos' list of historical election results includes a breakdown of presidential results by congressional districts from 2000-2020.
This volunteer effort to collect comprehensive election results data includes information from almost every state, though most are still in progress.
With support from the Google News Initiative, The Associated Press is giving INN members access to U.S. election results as part of the organizations’ shared commitment to providing facts around the democratic process.
This data repository funded by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Fair Representation in Redistricting Initiative has more than 12,000 datasets from all 50 states to aid users in understanding and participating in the redistricting process.
This collection of 27 datasets has county and precinct-level data for U.S. House, Senate and Presidential elections from 1976-2022.
Ballotpedia will provide access to structured data about elections, candidates, and ballot measures in the state(s) your newsroom covers.
This nationwide dataset of federal, state and local elected officials, available in XML and tab-delimited .txt files, includes officials' names, offices, party affiliation, contact information, websites and social media handles.
INN or LION members in swing states can get AP's U.S. election results and content for free, as part of the organizations’ shared commitment to providing facts around the democratic process.
The lab has looked at early voting patterns across the United States in 2020 and 2022, and plans to do the same in 2024. When available, early voting data is broken down by counties, party registration, age, gender and race — as well as information about the early voting method.
Google's Civic Information API pulls in data from a number of partners to provide election information for voters.