Political Science 

Polls & Statistics

• Election Results

• Other Voting, Polls & Statistics Sources

• U.S. Congress. Clerk of the House. Election Information

  • Since 1920, the Clerk of the House has collected and published the official vote counts for federal elections.

• California Secretary of State. California Elections and Voter Information.

  • Information about current and past general and primary elections, ballot measures, election statistics, and voter registration.

• Santa Barbara County. Clerk-Recorder, Assessor and Elections Department. Elections web page.

  • Includes General Election results, archive of elections, polling places, turnout by precinct, sample ballot, and information on measures and propositions, etc.

Other Voting, Polls & Statistics Sources

• America at the polls: a handbook of American presidential election statistics.

  • v. 1 Harding to Eisenhower, 1920-1956; 
    v. 2 Kennedy to Clinton, 1960-1992

  • Ref JK524 .A73 1994

• America Votes: A Handbook of Contemporary American Election Statistics. (1956-1998)

  • Ref JK1967 .A8

• American Attitudes: What Americans Think About Issues That Shape Their Lives

  • Ref HN90 .P8 A527 2005

• American National Election Studies (ANES)

  • ANES conducts national surveys of the American electorate in election years (and pilot studies in-between election years) to document long-term trends in voting, public opinion and political participation, as well as the political impact of historical events.

• American Public Opinion Data, 1981-2000 [on microfiche]

  • Sources for polls listed in American Public Opinion Index (next entry).

  • HM261 .A43

• American Public Opinion Index, 1981-2000 [print indexes]

  • Use this index with American Public Opinion Data (above). Partially superseded by Polling the Nations (see entry below).

  • Ref Index Area HM261 .A463

• California Opinion Index (1979 to present)

  • HM261 .C25

• California Poll / Field Poll (1979 to present)
  

  • Online at http://gort.ucsd.edu/calpol - or -
    

  • KB1 .C16

• European Commission. Public Opinion [web page].

  • The website for the Public Opinion Analysis sector of the European Commission - the executive branch of the European Union.

• Gallup Poll Monthly

  • Ref HM261 .G3

• Gallup Poll Cumulative Index: Public Opinion 1935-1997

  • Ref HN90 .P8 G29 1999

• Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

  • A unit within the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, ICPSR is a membership-based organization - with over 640 member colleges and universities around the world - that maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction.

• Lijphart Election Data Archives 

  • The Lijphart Elections Archive is a research collection of district level election results for approximately 350 national legislative elections in 26 countries, dating from early 1980s through 2003. 

• Political Database of the Americas (Georgetown University)

  • Provides documentary and statistical political information on Latin America, including constitutions,electoral laws, legislative and executive branch information and election data.

• Polling the Nations (1986 to present)

  • Online database of public opinion polls from 14,000 surveys conducted from 1986 in the United States and 80other countries

• Public Opinion Quarterly (1937 to present)
  

  • HM1 .P8

• Statistics and Data for the Social Sciences

  • The UCSB Library guide to online social sciences statistics and data sources.

• UC San Diego Social Science Data Services

  • Resources and assistance in finding and using data that supports the research and instructional needs of faculty and students in the social sciences, and related areas.

• United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Office of the Federal Register. U.S. Electoral College.

• Yahoo! Directory. Social Research » Data Collections