U.S. Senate Statewide Election Returns from 1976 to 2024

1976 to 2024 constituency-level returns for elections to the U.S. Senate. The data file contains state-level results compiled by the MIT Election Data and Science Lab. It covers nearly five decades of U.S. Senate electoral history.

Use Cases

• Analyzing long-term partisan trends in Senate elections based on state-level returns.
• Modeling election outcomes based on historical state-level voting patterns.
• Studying the incumbency advantage in U.S. Senate races based on historical returns.

Strengths

• Covers a 48-year time span from 1976 to 2024.
• Compiled by the authoritative MIT Election Data and Science Lab.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

MIT Election Data and Science Lab

Time Range

1976–2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-11 16:13:52; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United States (state-level)