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Major Agency Web Sites
- Federal Election Commission
Enforces federal election laws. Offers information about campaign finance laws and data on contributions to candidates for federal office.
- Virginia State Board of Elections
Promotes the proper administration of election laws, campaign finance disclosure compliance, and voter registration processes in Virginia.
Campaign Finance
- Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002
A collection of materials including litigation documents, advisory opinions, rulemakings and other materials related to the McCain/Finegold act to reform election campaign finance rules. From the Federal Election Commission.
- Campaign Finance Reports and Data
Main data page of the Federal Election Commission. Contains fund raising data on presidential and congressional campaigns, political parties and political action committees
- FEC Info
Detailed Federal Election Commission campaign finance data from a non-FEC source
- Federal Election Commission Financial Information about Candidates, Parties, and PACS
Data on contributions to candidates for federal office from party committees and political action groups.
- Open Secrets.org: Your Guide to the Money in U.S. Elections
Non-partisan, non-profit site by the Center for Responsive Politics. Offers detailed information on campaign contributions for each candidate by PAC, individuals, industries, geography, etc. Not a government site, but uses government-gathered data.
- Virginia Public Access Project
Non-profit organization database of campaign contributions to candidates in races for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, State Senate, and House of Delegate races since 1996. Covers contributions of $100 or more. Allows search by candidates and contributors.
Directories
Election Archives
- Archiving the Web: Virginia's Political Landscape, Fall 2005
A web collection of collections including an historic archive of the records of the administration of former Governor Mark Warner, political sites associated with the state election of fall 2005, materials related to the Jamestown 2007 celebration, and the Capitol Square Renovation Project 2004-2007.
- Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections
National, state, and county level data for past presidential elections through 2000. Includes minor party candidates. Not a government site but useful for presidential election information.
- Election Statistics
The official vote counts for federal elections from 1920 to date. From the Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives.
- Election Collection 2000: An Internet Library
An archive of web materials related to the 2000 Presidential election including candidate, party, and news sites. From the Library of Congress and the Internet Archive.
- Election 2002 Web Archive
A selective collection of nearly 4,000 web sites, including congressional and gubernatorial candidates, parties, interest groups and others, related to the 2002 elections. From the Library of Congress' Minerva site, the Internet Archive, and the State University of New York.
- Elections 2000
A lengthy collection of sites related to the 2000 election season. Includes links to sites for political parties, candidates, conventions, platforms, key speeches and much more. From the University of Michigan Documents Center.
- Elections 2004
A collection of information on the candidates and campaign issues for the 2004 election season. Compiled from a variety of sources, and featuring a slight Michigan emphasis, by the University of Michigan Library's Documents Center
- Elections 2006
A collection of information on the candidates and campaign issues for the 2006 election season. From the University of Michigan Library's Documents Center.
- Elections 2008
A collection of information on the candidates and campaign issues for the 2008 election season. From the University of Michigan Library's Documents Center.
- Election 2008
A collection of resources on the 2008 election including candidate sites, polls, issues, and finances. From the Government Documents Roundtable of the American Library Association.
- A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns, 1787-1825
Covers all 25 states in existence duirng the time period. Search by candidate name, office, state, and year. From the American Antiquarian Society and Tufts University. ,
- SourceWatch Election 2006
Results of the 2006 House and Senate elections with profiles of the incumbents and successful challengers. From Congresspedia.
- Record of American Democracy, 1984-1990
Not a government title, but filled with government information. Covers American electoral results down to the precinct level for the 1984-1990 period. Also includes data on socioeconomic characteristics of the electorate. In SPSS portable file format.
Election Information and Procedures
Election Reform
Electoral College
- FEC: The Electoral College
Includes a brief history of the College, how it works, and the distribution of electoral colleges from 1981 to date.
- U.S. Electoral College
Explanations of how it works, data on past elections and the electoral college vote, and frequently asked questions. From the National Archives and Records Administration.
Guides
Presidential Election Materials
- Election Resources
Extensive list of research materials, both electronic and traditional, connected to U.S. Presidential elections. From the American Memory collection of the Library of Congress.
- Florida Election Cases
Documents related to the Supreme Court's consideration of the disputed Florida election, including the Court's December 4th Per Curiam Opinion in Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board which set aside the ruling of the Florida Supreme Court to extend the time for counting disputed ballots and the Court's December 12th opinion in Bush v. Gore selecting George Bush as the winner. Links for the two opinions are found at the bottom of the page of court materials.
- Presidential Elections 1789-2000 Printable Maps
Provides maps showing election results in three formats: GIF, PDF and EPS (Encapsulated PostScript format). From the National Atlas of the U.S.
- U.S. Presidential Election Maps 1860-2000
Shows per cent of the popular vote and electoral vote distribution and totals. From the University of Virginia's Geostat Center with data from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.
- Voting America: United States Politics, 1840-2008
- Examines the results of presidential elections from 1840 to date. Combines data and mapping software to visualize the results of presidential elections, swings in party strength, voter turnout and voting patterns. Offers election results at the national, state, and county level. Also offers sections on expert commentary and an interactive map that allows the user to select and arrange data. From the University of Richmond Digital Scholarship Lab.
- Voting Irregularities in Florida During the 2000 Presidential Election
Findings and recommendations of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission following an investigation of the Florida election.
- Web White and Blue 2000: Online Presidential Debate Archive
Describes itself as the first online presidential debate archive in U.S. history. The "rolling cyber debate" featured daily exchanges among six presidential campaigns and responses to questions submitted by Internet users. Archived by the Markle Foundation.
International
- UK [United Kingdom] Election Statistics: 1918-2004
Covers Parliamentary elections, including general and by-elections, characteristics of members of Parliament, and performance of minor parties. Also covers local elections, European Parliamentary elections, and elections to devolved bodies.
- Psephos: Adam Carr's Election Archive
Calls itself the largest, most comprehensive, and most up-to-date archive of election statistics in the world. Features election results from countries of the world with electoral maps and introductory information about the country and political parties.
Voter Registration and Turnout
- Voter Turnout from 1945 to 1998: A Global Report on Political Participation
Data on voter registration and voter turnout for countries around the world from The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance.
- Voting and Registration
Information from the Census Bureau on voting participation and registration by demographic and socioeconomic characteristics for Congressional and Presidential elections, 1964 to 1998. Also includes projections of the voting age population by states for November 2000.
