THE AMERICAN VOTE: STATE RESULTS IN U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

state-results-1789-2024.csv has one row per state, election and candidate for
every presidential election from 1789 to 2024: 7578 rows covering 2342
state-years (every state-year in which electoral votes were cast). 1887
state-years have popular votes from a named source; 455 do not yet, and their
popular-vote fields are blank with vote_status saying why.

sources.csv lists every source the popular-vote figures cite, with licence,
link, version and the date it was retrieved.

Both files are UTF-8 CSV with a header row; fields that contain commas or
quotes are quoted.

COLUMNS

year: Election year.
state: Two-letter postal code (DC for the District of Columbia).
state_name: Full name of the state.
electoral_votes_total: Electoral votes the state cast in that election,
counting blank ballots. Before 1804 each elector cast two votes for president,
so this is twice the number of electors.
candidate: Candidate name. "Other candidates" is one row holding every
candidate the source lists who is not named separately, plus write-in,
scattering and blank lines.
party: Party code used on the site (for example Dem, Rep, Lib, Grn; OTH =
other). Blank when the site's data does not record a party for that candidate
in that state.
popular_votes: Popular votes for the candidate in the state. Blank when the
state has no sourced popular vote, or the source has no figure for that
candidate.
popular_pct: 100 × popular_votes ÷ the state's total vote from the same
source, rounded to one decimal place.
electoral_votes: Electoral votes the candidate received from the state, as
actually cast: district splits, faithless and unpledged electors are counted
where they went.
vote_status: Why the popular-vote fields are filled or blank: sourced =
Popular votes taken from the named source; not_sourced = State popular vote
not yet sourced; legislature = Electors chosen by the state legislature, with
no popular vote; no_popular_vote = No popular vote for president was held;
no_data = State popular vote not yet sourced.
source_id: Source of the popular-vote figure; full details in sources.csv.
Blank when there is no popular-vote figure.
note: Notes on the state-year (on its first row) or on that candidate's row.

HOW THE FIGURES WERE PRODUCED AND CHECKED

Electoral votes come from the site's state results file, which an automatic
test reconciles, state by state and candidate by candidate, with each
election's national totals; it is also compared with the National Archives'
Electoral College tables. Popular votes come from the sources in sources.csv.
Where an official Federal Election Commission figure was checked and found to
differ from the main source by more than 0.1% of a state's vote, the FEC
figure is used and the row's source_id names the FEC document. The full
method, and what has not been checked, is at
https://theamericanvote.com/methods

KNOWN GAPS

- 455 state-years have no sourced popular vote yet (vote_status other than
"sourced").
- People who received electoral votes without being on the ballot (faithless
electors) have electoral votes but no popular-vote figure.
- Where the site's electoral-vote data records a person by surname only (some
faithless electors and minor recipients), the candidate column shows that
surname, and party is blank when it is not recorded.
- Where a source lumps several minor candidates into one unnamed line, their
votes are inside "Other candidates" and a note says so.

SOURCES

- algara-amlani-county-1868-2020: Algara & Amlani, U.S. county presidential
returns 1868-2020. CC0 1.0. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DGUMFI
- clerk-house-statistics-1920: Statistics of the Congressional and
Presidential Election of November 2, 1920. Public domain: a work of the United
States government (17 U.S.C. 105).
https://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1920election.pdf
- clerk-house-statistics-1924: Statistics of the Presidential and
Congressional Election of November 4, 1924. Public domain: a work of the
United States government (17 U.S.C. 105).
https://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1924election.pdf
- clerk-house-statistics-1928: Statistics of the Presidential and
Congressional Election of November 6, 1928. Public domain: a work of the
United States government (17 U.S.C. 105).
https://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1928election.pdf
- clerk-house-statistics-1932: Statistics of the Presidential and
Congressional Election of November 8, 1932. Public domain: a work of the
United States government (17 U.S.C. 105).
https://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1932election.pdf
- clerk-house-statistics-1936: Statistics of the Presidential and
Congressional Election of November 3, 1936. Public domain: a work of the
United States government (17 U.S.C. 105).
https://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1936election.pdf
- clerk-house-statistics-1940: Statistics of the Presidential and
Congressional Election of November 5, 1940. Public domain: a work of the
United States government (17 U.S.C. 105).
https://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1940election.pdf
- clerk-house-statistics-1944: Statistics of the Presidential and
Congressional Election of November 7, 1944. Public domain: a work of the
United States government (17 U.S.C. 105).
https://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1944election.pdf
- clerk-house-statistics-1948: Statistics of the Presidential and
Congressional Election of November 2, 1948. Public domain: a work of the
United States government (17 U.S.C. 105).
https://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1948election.pdf
- clerk-house-statistics-1952: Statistics of the Presidential and
Congressional Election of November 4, 1952. Public domain: a work of the
United States government (17 U.S.C. 105).
https://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1952election.pdf
- clerk-house-statistics-1956: Statistics of the Presidential and
Congressional Election of November 6, 1956. Public domain: a work of the
United States government (17 U.S.C. 105).
https://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1956election.pdf
- clerk-house-statistics-1960: Statistics of the Presidential and
Congressional Election of November 8, 1960. Public domain: a work of the
United States government (17 U.S.C. 105).
https://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1960election.pdf
- clerk-house-statistics-1964: Statistics of the Presidential and
Congressional Election of November 3, 1964. Public domain: a work of the
United States government (17 U.S.C. 105).
https://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1964election.pdf
- clerk-house-statistics-1968: Statistics of the Presidential and
Congressional Election of November 5, 1968. Public domain: a work of the
United States government (17 U.S.C. 105).
https://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1968election.pdf
- clerk-house-statistics-1972: Statistics of the Presidential and
Congressional Election of November 7, 1972. Public domain: a work of the
United States government (17 U.S.C. 105).
https://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1972election.pdf
- fec-federal-elections-1984: Federal Election Commission, Federal Elections
84. Public domain (work of the U.S. government, 17 U.S.C. § 105).
https://www.fec.gov/documents/1548/federalelections84.pdf
- fec-federal-elections-1992: Federal Election Commission, Federal Elections
92. Public domain (work of the U.S. government, 17 U.S.C. § 105).
https://www.fec.gov/documents/1552/federalelections92.pdf
- fec-federal-elections-2004: Federal Election Commission, Federal Elections
2004: presidential results. Public domain (work of the U.S. government, 17
U.S.C. § 105). https://www.fec.gov/documents/1628/2004pres.xls
- fec-federal-elections-2012: Federal Election Commission, Federal Elections
2012: presidential results. Public domain (work of the U.S. government, 17
U.S.C. § 105). https://www.fec.gov/documents/1684/2012pres.xls
- fec-federal-elections-2016: Federal Election Commission, Federal Elections
2016. Public domain (work of the U.S. government, 17 U.S.C. § 105).
https://www.fec.gov/documents/1890/federalelections2016.xlsx
- fec-federal-elections-2020: Federal Election Commission, Federal Elections
2020. Public domain (work of the U.S. government, 17 U.S.C. § 105).
https://www.fec.gov/documents/4228/federalelections2020.xlsx
- mit-edsl-president-1976-2024: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S.
President 1976–2024. CC0 1.0. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/42MVDX
- stanwood-1898: Edward Stanwood, A History of the Presidency (1898). Public
domain in the United States: published before 1931.
https://archive.org/details/historyofpreside00stanuoft
- tribune-almanac-1878: The Tribune Almanac and Political Register for 1878.
Public domain in the United States: published before 1931.
https://archive.org/details/tribunealmanacpo18751879newy/page/n503/mode/1up
- world-almanac-1873: The World Almanac for 1873. Public domain in the United
States: published before 1931.
https://archive.org/details/worldalmanac18721873newy/page/n242/mode/1up
- world-almanac-1886: The World Almanac 1886. Public domain in the United
States: published before 1931.
https://archive.org/details/worldalmanac00unse/page/131/mode/1up
- world-almanac-1891: The World Almanac 1891. Public domain in the United
States: published before 1931.
https://archive.org/details/worldalmanac1891newy/page/274/mode/1up
- world-almanac-1894: The World Almanac and Encyclopedia 1894. Public domain
in the United States: published before 1931.
https://archive.org/details/worldalmanacency1894newy/page/375/mode/1up
- world-almanac-1897: The World Almanac and Encyclopedia 1897. Public domain
in the United States: published before 1931.
https://archive.org/details/worldalmanacency1897newy/page/n430/mode/1up
- world-almanac-1901: The World Almanac and Encyclopedia 1901. Public domain
in the United States: published before 1931.
https://archive.org/details/worldalmanacency1901newy/page/n468/mode/1up
- world-almanac-1905: The World Almanac and Encyclopedia 1905. Public domain
in the United States: published before 1931.
https://archive.org/details/worldalmanacency1905newy/page/n512/mode/1up
- world-almanac-1910: The World Almanac and Encyclopedia 1910. Public domain
in the United States: published before 1931.
https://archive.org/details/worldalmanacency1910newy/page/649/mode/1up
- world-almanac-1914: The World Almanac and Encyclopedia 1914. Public domain
in the United States: published before 1931.
https://archive.org/details/worldalmanacency1914newy/page/725/mode/1up
- world-almanac-1917: The World Almanac and Encyclopedia 1917. Public domain
in the United States: published before 1931.
https://archive.org/details/worldalmanacency1917newy/page/830/mode/1up

LICENCE

This compilation is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. You
may copy, share and adapt it for any purpose, including commercially, if you
credit it as below. The popular-vote figures come from the public-domain and
CC0 sources listed above, which anyone may use directly under their own terms.
The electoral votes agree with the National Archives' Electoral College tables
(public domain), apart from the differences explained on the Methods page.

CITATION

The American Vote (theamericanvote.com), State results in U.S. presidential
elections, 1789–2024. https://theamericanvote.com/data

Report an error: https://theamericanvote.com/contact#corrections