Candidates in American General Elections (doi:10.7910/DVN/DGDRDT)

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Document Description

Citation

Title:

Candidates in American General Elections

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/DGDRDT

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Date of Distribution:

2021-09-27

Version:

3

Bibliographic Citation:

Cha, Jeremiah; Kuriwaki, Shiro; Snyder, James M. Jr., 2021, "Candidates in American General Elections", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DGDRDT, Harvard Dataverse, V3, UNF:6:uVlL1Dbr6+F669LZhsBNPg== [fileUNF]

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Candidates in American General Elections

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/DGDRDT

Authoring Entity:

Cha, Jeremiah (Harvard University)

Kuriwaki, Shiro (Stanford University)

Snyder, James M. Jr. (Harvard University)

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Access Authority:

Kuriwaki, Shiro

Depositor:

Kuriwaki, Shiro

Date of Deposit:

2021-09-22

Holdings Information:

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DGDRDT

Study Scope

Keywords:

Social Sciences

Abstract:

Comprehensive and standardized election results of winning and losing candidates for the offices of President, U.S. House, U.S. Senate, and Governor. Currently from 2006-2022. See the end of the documentation for version history.

Methodology and Processing

Sources Statement

Data Access

Notes:

<a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0">CC0 1.0</a>

Other Study Description Materials

File Description--f10626651

File: candidates_2006-2022.tab

  • Number of cases: 14081

  • No. of variables per record: 14

  • Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

Notes:

UNF:6:uVlL1Dbr6+F669LZhsBNPg==

Main dataset

Variable Description

List of Variables:
  • year - Year of the general election or CCES
  • state - State two-letter abbreviation
  • office - Office (H = House, S = Senate, G = Governor, P = President)
  • dist - Congressional district number, current
  • type - Type of election. (G = general, S = special)
  • nextup - The next year the winner will be up
  • party - Candidate party affiliation (short)
  • party_formal - Candidate party affiliation (formal)
  • name_snyder - Candidate name
  • inc - Candidate is incumbent
  • candidatevotes - Votes for the candidate
  • totalvotes - Total votes cast in the race
  • won - Whether the candidate won the general election
  • runoff - Whether the election is a runoff (if applicable)

Variables

Year of the general election or CCES

f10626651 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 5.130090317843999; Max. 2023.0; Mean 2013.9747177047072; Valid 14081.0; Min. 2006.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:cWGN27WQnwxR3H/25YXr/g==

State two-letter abbreviation

f10626651 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:6:EySTuYIM0PRWfUKPXXaTGg==

Office (H = House, S = Senate, G = Governor, P = President)

f10626651 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:6:dM43gDkWHPCdZzns6eeUJg==

Congressional district number, current

f10626651 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 53.0; Min. 1.0; StDev 9.876643576409856; Mean 8.738757670000822; Valid 11897.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:rP5YUWJC1hawoDlQNMcSCg==

Type of election. (G = general, S = special)

f10626651 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:6:f2b60tkW6ft0P4WnDSxN/g==

The next year the winner will be up

f10626651 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 5.288771060331264; Mean 2016.4667634252535; Max. 2028.0; Valid 13780.0; Min. 2006.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:UnFuQzWybAomhk63KlmCgA==

Candidate party affiliation (short)

f10626651 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:6:27Sdx5M9ODCOLiRZlin0cw==

Candidate party affiliation (formal)

f10626651 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:6:q/IbiOlqYVyzyc9Zc+Qawg==

Candidate name

f10626651 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:6:7EDKRpgC2bhS4+JdrgYKdA==

Candidate is incumbent

f10626651 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.4742407165859885; Mean 0.28989418365172903; Min. 0.0; Valid 14081.0; Max. 3.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:abM8rNTPCLkGOsfU3AMPTw==

Votes for the candidate

f10626651 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 1.111025E7; StDev 508015.04200657003; Min. 1.0; Mean 194940.8420865351; Valid 14052.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:hOW2v3skiVCGXXB9sFToFg==

Total votes cast in the race

f10626651 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 1497795.014629248; Valid 14052.0; Max. 1.74968E7; Mean 788835.9128949591; Min. 693.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:Rm+nO6w91OxspH4Q0A6iRw==

Whether the candidate won the general election

f10626651 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.35301400603575056; Min. 0.0; Valid 12923.0; Max. 1.0; StDev 0.4779255093453578;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:E6EGe0mfpwlIjLKfFIt8Xg==

Whether the election is a runoff (if applicable)

f10626651 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 483.0; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.07453416149068323; StDev 0.26291049778806586; Max. 1.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:vLNCboMlVW7+snkPVv+JCw==

Other Study-Related Materials

Label:

guide_candidates.pdf

Text:

Codebook for main dataset

Notes:

application/pdf