CES Common Content: 2025 U.S. Post-Election Survey

A 2025 post-election survey dataset with 17,000 respondents, conducted by the Cooperative Election Study (CES). The dataset was released by author Brian Schaffner from the CCES Dataverse and was last updated in March 2026. It contains the common content questions from the survey's odd-year wave.

Use Cases

• Analyze post-election public opinion based on common survey content.
• Model voter demographics and political affiliation based on survey responses.
• Track changes in political attitudes over time using the odd-year survey wave.

Strengths

• 17,000 survey respondents provide a substantial sample size.
• Data is from a recognized academic election study (CES).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is known, but specific variables and their distributions are not detailed in the metadata.

Provenance

Source

CCES Dataverse, author Brian Schaffner.

Collection Method

Post-election survey conducted by the Cooperative Election Study (CES).

Time Range

2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-25 16:45:57; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Likely United States, based on the CES's typical scope.