Research Guides: Elections & Voting Information: Primary Sources (News, Poll and Campaign Data & Reports)

News Sources and Party Campaign Sites

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Law, News and Business Database.
Full text news articles, law journal articles, court cases, briefs, legal codes, and SEC filings. Users can Shepardize court cases and then read the full text of the related decisions. Most publications are covered 1980-present. The best place to find interview transcripts from television and radio.
America's News This link opens in a new window
Complete full-text content of local and regional news. Includes Los Angeles Times. Paid advertisements are excluded. Coverage varies by newspaper. Updated daily.
Global Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Some of the world's top news sources. Includes titles such as, The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series of publications.

Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
Contains summaries of results, comparisons of how attitudes change over time, copies of questionnaires, and descriptions of survey methodologies. Some summaries have response frequency tables with demographic breakdowns. From the header bar, select Survey Reports for summaries and related questionnaires going back to 1997. Select Datasets to download datasets in zip format; each zip archive consists of a datafile, layout, and questionnaire.
Voter Turnout Database | International IDEA
Great web site with all kinds of voting data from all over the world.
Gallup Analytics
Gallup, Inc., is primarily a research-based performance-management consulting company. Some of Gallup's key practice areas are - Employee Engagement, Customer Engagement and Well-Being. Gallup has over 40 offices in 27 countries. World headquarters are in Washington, D.C.
Gallup.com
Latest Gallup Polls

Latinobarómetro : opinion pública Latinoamericana This link opens in a new window
An annual public opinion survey that highlights the opinions, attitudes, behaviors and values of the Latin American region as it relates to economic and political policies, the environment, gender and discrimination topics and issues, and much more. Latinobarometro Report is also published on the website's "Press" section.
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research This link opens in a new window
Polling data ranging from the 1930s - present. Almost 700,000 questions of U.S. samples can be searched at the question-level in iPOLL, while RoperExpress lets you download of over 23,000 datasets from over 100 countries.

Eurobarometer: Public Opinion in the European Union
The standard Eurobarometer was established in 1973. Each survey consists of approximately 1000 face-to-face interviews per country. Reports are published twice yearly. Reproduction is authorized, except for commercial purposes, provided the source is acknowledged.
American National Election Studies
Conducted biennially since 1952, the survey gauges public sentiment on the political process, the role of government, and social and economic issues. After free registration, this site permits download of the ANES datasets, most of which are also available through ICPSR.

Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections This link opens in a new window
For username and password, email us at library@claremont.edu or stop by the Main Services Desk for assistance. Presidential Election Results by State 1824-2004, by County 1964-2004, 1948-1960, 1990-2006; Senatorial Election Results by County 1990-2007; Gubernatorial Election Results by County 1990-2007; Presidential Primary Election Results by County 2000-2008; Election Turnout Data by County 2000-2004; and Presidential Election Results by Precinct.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statistics on a wide variety of topics related to industry and finance; international in scope. Updated variably and dates of coverage vary. Mostly 2008 - present.
Data-Planet Statistical Datasets This link opens in a new window
Repository of over 35 billion datapoints from over 450 databases sourced from 70 public and private organizations. Searchable by keyword, subject and source. The datasets permit correlation of multiple, diverse indicators, with tools to interpret and visualize the data. Data available from 1948 - present.

Comparative Political Datasets
The "Comparative Political Data Set" (CPDS) is a collection of political and institutional country-level data provided by Prof. Dr. Klaus Armingeon and collaborators at the University of Berne. It consists of annual data for 36 democratic countries for the period of 1960 to 2015 or since their transition to democracy
Nationmaster
This site provides comparative national statistics on a variety of topics. In many cases, statistics can also be displayed as bar graphs, charts, or maps.
Data & Statistics Research Guide

ACS (American Community Survey)
Replaces the American Factfinder for demographic, social, and housing data from the Census Bureau.
World dataBank
Link to the World Bank databases; combines the World Development Indicators and Global Development Finance. Used to be cost-based but is now free. Major source of data for foreign countries (and the U.S.) Wide range - 264 countries - over 1500 data items, data back to 1960 in some cases. Great database!!!