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Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections

U.S. Elections Data and visualizations

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About this resource

Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections is the work of a single individual. According to the author, it was started as a paper hobby after the 1992 Presidential Election. Dave Leip uses Excel as a tool to produce the pie charts and to help build the county-level maps.

There are two distinct elements:

  • The web site, which is free, and provides maps and data of elections at the national and state levels
  •  County-level data sets, which must be purchased, and come as Excel files. UO Libraries currently has:
    • Presidential General Election results 2000-2020
    • Senate General Election results 2000-2020
    • Representative General Election results (county and Congressional District) 2010-2020
    • Turnout & Registration Data for the years 2000-2020

Important note: Dave Leip's election maps use RED for the Democratic Party and BLUE for the Republican Party. See his FAQ for more information.

Election Data Spreadsheets

UO Libraries has purchased a number of data spreadsheets from Dave Leip, with Presidential, Senate, and Representative election returns, and voter turnout & registration data, down to the county level.

Important information about accessing these:

  1. These items are made available through Oregon Digital
  2. Login to Oregon Digital as a UO user with your DuckID and password.
  3. One you have found the dataset you want, click on the Download button in the upper right to download the data.
  • More information on Dave Leip's Voter Registration & Turnout data spreadsheets.

If these links do not work for you, go directly to Oregon Digital and login as a UO user. Do a search on the word leip, and you will find all datasets available. You can browse or search within the Leip datasets to find the year you are interested in, etc.