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Election & voting statistics and sources for Texas and U.S.
U. S. Elections
- U S Census Bureau - Voting and RegistrationIn election years, the Current Population Survey collects reported data on voting and registration, and later distributes statistics by turnout, age, race and origin.
- House of Representatives - Election StatisticsSince 1920, the Clerk of the House has collected and published the official vote counts for federal elections from the official sources among the various states and territories.
- African American Electorate: A Statistical HistoryE-book in Sage Knowledge and in print: JPL JK1924 .W36 2012
- Statistical Abstract of the United States This link opens in a new windowSummarizes U.S. social, political and economic data in convenient tables from a wide variety of Federal and State agencies as well as private organizations.
Election data is in Section 7.
- Historical Electoral College ResultsPresidential Elections 1789-2020. Includes individual states. From National Archives.
- Felon Voting Rights in 2024National Conference of State Legislatures updates on voting rights for felons.
- Directory of Congressional Voting Scores and Interest Group Ratings (Gale)4th edition
Compiles CQ voting studies and interest group rating data for every legislator who has served in Congress from 1947 to 2004. Includes information on six congressional sessions (106th, 107th, and 108th Congresses).
2020 Election: e-Books
The 2020 Presidential Election: Key Issues and Regional Dynamics by Luke Perry (Editor)
Call Number: E-bookPublication Date: 2022A regional approach to understanding 2020 presidential election outcomes, taking into account the tribalism that has come to define contemporary US politics and building a path to 270 Electoral College votes. The authors employ qualitative and quantitative methods to examine electoral outcomes in the Midwest, Southwest, Southeast, and Northeast.The Elections of 2020 by Michael Nelson
Call Number: E-bookPublication Date: 2021Features essays by political scientists in the immediate aftermath of the 2020 general election, chronicling every stage of the presidential race as well as the coterminous congressional elections, paying additional attention to the role of the media and campaign finance in the process.The Loud Minority: Why Protests Matter in American Democracy by Daniel Q. Gillion
Call Number: E-bookPublication Date: 2020How political protests and activism influence voters and candidatesThis Happened Here: Amerikaners, Neoliberals, and the Trumping of America by Paul Street
Call Number: E-bookPublication Date: 2021This book examines the Trump phenomenon and presidency as fascist. Fascism here connotes not generically "bad" politics or a consolidated political-economic regime (Mussolini's Italy or Hitler's Germany) but a set of political, movement, and ideological traits understood within the context of the neoliberal-capitalist era.The Roads to Congress 2020: Campaigning in the Era of Trump and COVID-19 by Sean D. Foreman (Editor); Marcia L. Godwin (Editor); Walter Clark Wilson (Editor)
Call Number: E-bookPublication Date: 2021Analyzes changes to campaigning and voting in the U.S. in 2020. The global pandemic caused by COVID-19 upended traditional campaign strategies, posed unprecedented challenges to candidates, and potentially altered how campaigns think about running for office.Political Marketing in the 2020 U. S. Presidential Election by Jamie Gillies (Editor)
Call Number: E-bookPublication Date: 2021Focuses on the U.S. presidential election spectacle, from the primaries through to the November 2020 election, and subsequent events leading up to the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th president.Laboratories Against Democracy: How National Parties Transformed State Politics by Jacob Grumbach
Call Number: E-bookPublication Date: 2022Shows how national political conflicts are increasingly flowing through the subnational institutions of state politics--with profound consequences for public policy and American democracy. Argues that as Congress has become more gridlocked, national partisan and activist groups have shifted their sights to the state level, nationalizing state politics in the process and transforming state governments into the engines of American policymaking.
Books
Administering Elections: How American Elections Work by Kathleen Hale; Robert Montjoy; Mitchell Brown; Thad E. Hall
Call Number: JK1976 .H25 2015Administering Elections provides a digest of contemporary American election administration using a systems perspective. The authors provide insight into the interconnected nature of all components of elections administration, and sheds like on the potential consequences of reforms that fail to account for this.The American Elections of 2012 by Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier (Editor); Steven E. Schier (Editor)
Call Number: E-bookPublication Date: 2013In addition to assessing election results, the book examines the consequences of the large ambitions of the Obama presidency and the political and policy risks entailed in the pursuit of those ambitions.Exit Polls: Surveying the American Electorate 1927-2010 by Samuel J. Best
Call Number: E-bookPublication Date: 2012Every two years, exit polls become the most widely analyzed, written about and discussed data-set in the U.S.. Although exit polls are known for their use in predicting elections, they are also the best tool for explaining election results. More than 200 tables and figures showing changes in the electorate and its voting patterns over time.Money, Power, and Elections: How Campaign Finance Reform Subverts American Democracy by Rodney A. Smith
Call Number: JK1991 .S58 2006Argues finance laws have increased the likelihood that incumbents in the House and Senate will be reelected, and have greatly diminished the chances that candidates who are not wealthy will be elected. Presents data about federal elections since 1920.Voter Turnout in the United States, 1788-2009 by Curtis Gans
Call Number: E-bookProvides turnout statistics for general and primary elections for presidential, congressional, and state gubernatorial races. Extensive graphs and tables detail over two centuries of trends: Turnout data presented in 20-year periods Voter turnout by party affiliation State level data Voter turnout--the percentage of eligible citizens who cast ballots in a given election.Voting in America by Robert E. DiClerico
Call Number: JK1976 .V69 2008Tables include data on voter turnouts for presidential primaries from 1972 to 2000, voter turnouts for presidential elections from 1924 to 2000, and comparisons (in numbers) of voters and nonvoters by election years from 1924 to 2000. Outlines the events, people, court cases, laws, amendments, and practices.Political Advertising in the United States by Erika Franklin Fowler; Michael M. Franz; Travis N. Ridout
Call Number: E-bookPublication Date: 2021Examines the volume, distribution, content, and effects of political advertising in congressional and presidential elections. Considers the role of TV ads using extensive data on ad airings on local broadcast stations. It also analyzes newly available data on paid digital ads, including ads on Facebook, Instagram, Google, and YouTube.Latinos and the 2016 Election : Latino Resistance and the Election of Donald Trump by Gabriel R. Sanchez (Editor)
Call Number: E-bookPublication Date: 2020The 2016 election saw more Latino votes than the record voter turnout of the 2012 election. The essays in this volume provide a detailed analysis of the state and national impact of Latino voters.