U.S. Presidential Election Polls from 2016 to 2024

U.S. presidential election polling data used for a methodological analysis article titled 'Changing modes or changing pollsters?'. The data was authored by Claire Durand and harvested from the Borealis Dataverse platform. It was last updated on April 25, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in polling methodology based on the dataset's stated purpose.
• Compare pollster performance across multiple U.S. presidential election cycles.
• Study the impact of changing survey modes on election poll results.
• Benchmark forecasting models using historical U.S. presidential election polls.

Strengths

• Data covers three U.S. presidential election cycles from 2016 to 2024.
• Associated with a specific research article, providing a clear academic context.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Borealis Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Likely aggregated from various U.S. presidential election polls.

Time Range

2016 to 2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-25 04:11:07; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United States