Social Science Data

To serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and journalists, the ANES produces high quality data from its own surveys on voting, public opinion, and political participation. ANES data enable researchers to better understand the theoretical and empirical foundations of national election outcomes.

See how candidates and committees raise and spend money in federal elections.

Precinct-level results for as many U.S. elections as possible since 2000, and then linking these results to GIS boundary files of voting tabulation districts.

Participating countries and provinces include a common module of survey questions in their post-election studies. The resulting data are deposited along with voting, demographic, district and macro/electoral system variables. The studies are then merged into a single, free, public dataset for use in comparative study and cross-level analysis.

A repository of detailed election results at the constituency level for lower house legislative elections from around the world.

Browse information about past and upcoming elections from countries around the world. - International Foundation for Electoral Systems.

IDEA has collected and produced a number of information databases on different areas of democracy and elections worldwide. - The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance

The PARLINE database contains information on the structure and working methods of 270 parliamentary chambers in all of the 193 countries where a national legislature exists.