State Legislative Election Returns for Candidates from 1967 to 2010

Over 300,000 observations of individual candidates who ran for state legislative office between 1967 and 2010. Variables likely include district designations, election year and month, district type, and candidate attributes such as incumbency status, party, and vote totals. The dataset was compiled by Carl Klarner of Indiana State University, updating previous ICPSR data collections through 2010.

Use Cases

• Modeling candidate vote share based on attributes like incumbency status and party.
• Analyzing temporal trends in state legislative election outcomes from 1967 to 2010.
• Studying the impact of district types, such as multimember districts, on election results.

Strengths

• Over 300,000 candidate-level observations provide substantial scale for analysis.
• Covers a long temporal range of 44 years (1967-2010) for longitudinal study.
• Integrates data from five sources, including three established ICPSR collections.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; data is current only through 2010.
• Row count is known, but specific file formats and sample data are unavailable for preview.

Provenance

Source

Compiled from five sources, including ICPSR data collections #8907, #3938, and #21480.

Collection Method

An update and integration of previous ICPSR data releases.

Time Range

1967 through 2010

Freshness

Data coverage ends in 2010; last update date is unknown.

Geography

United States state legislatures