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U.S. House 1976–2018 | Harvard Dataverse / MEDSL

Provided By: Rearc

U.S. House 1976–2018 | Harvard Dataverse / MEDSL

Provided By: Rearc

This release contains information on the returns of United States House elections from 1976-2018. There's data for each county in the United States, how many votes were cast on a candidate who represented their political party (i.e. Democrat, Republican, etc.), and total votes for each county. Included in this data is also various information on each county.

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Overview

The source code outlining how this product gathers, transforms, revises and publishes its datasets is available at https://github.com/rearc-data/mit-us-house-1976-2018 .

Main Overview

This release contains information on the returns of United States House elections from 1976-2018. There's data for each county in the United States, how many votes were cast on a candidate who represented their political party (i.e. Democrat, Republican, etc.), and total votes for each county. Included in this data is also various information on each county.

The included data is provided by Harvard Dataverse, which contains almost 100,000 datasets on various subjects. This specific dataset is maintained by the MIT Election Data and Science Lab (MEDSL). If you want to learn more or explore other datasets, visit the Harvard Dataverse homepage  and the MEDSL homepage .

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This resource is presented in the CSV format. The dataset includes a codebook in which there is information on each column and the source.

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About Rearc

Rearc is a cloud, software and services company. We believe that empowering engineers drives innovation. Cloud-native architectures, modern software and data practices, and the ability to safely experiment can enable engineers to realize their full potential. We have partnered with several enterprises and startups to help them achieve agility. Our approach is simple — empower engineers with the best tools possible to make an impact within their industry.

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U.S. House 1976–2018 | Harvard Dataverse/MEDSL
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US East (N. Virginia)

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