County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2024

County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2024 is a dataset of U.S. presidential election results at the county level. It is produced by the MIT Election Data and Science Lab and covers seven election cycles from 2000 to 2024.

Use Cases

• Analyzing county-level vote share trends for major party candidates over time.
• Mapping the geographic distribution of electoral support across the United States.
• Studying the relationship between demographic data and voting outcomes at the county level.
• Calculating national popular vote totals from aggregated county returns.
• Examining shifts in county-level partisan alignment across multiple election cycles.

Strengths

• Covers a long time span of 24 years across seven presidential elections.
• Provides data at the granular county level for detailed geographic analysis.
• Originates from the authoritative MIT Election Data and Science Lab.

Limitations

• Specific column names and the exact row count are not provided in the available metadata.
• One source lists the license as 'Open Access (green)' while another lists it as 'None', creating a conflict.

Provenance

Source

MIT Election Data and Science Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Collection Method

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Time Range

2000 to 2024

Freshness

2026-02-25 19:00:32

Geography

United States (county-level)