Q. Where can I find statistics on presidential elections?

National results

• Presidential Elections Data, 1828-2008 (American Presidency Project, UCSB)
  Electoral and percentage of vote total for each candidate.
• Historical Statistics of the United States (Yale subscription)
  Section Eb, Elections and Politics, includes tables of electoral and popular votes by candidate, 1789-2000.
• CQ's Vital Statistics on American Politics (Yale subscription)
  Popular and electoral votes, 1789-2008

By state

• US Presidential Election Maps: 1860-1996 (University of Virginia)
  Percent of popular vote and electoral vote, 1860-1996
• Historical Election Results (National Archives and Records Administration)
  Electoral votes, 1789-2008
• Historical Statistics of the United States (Yale subscription)
  Section Eb, Elections and Politics, includes tables of electoral votes by party and state, 1804-2000; and popular votes by state and party, 1836-2000.
• CQ's Vital Statistics on American Politics (Yale subscription)
  Winning party, by state, 1789-2008; presidential returns, 2008.

By Congressional district

• 1956-1972: CQ Almanac
• 1972-present: Almanac of American Politics
• 1976 and 1980: Congressional Districts in the 1980s
• 1998-present:Almanac of American Politics
• 1992-2004 datafiles to be used within statistical software are available in the Social Science Data Archive. Search StatCat, Yale's data catalog, by title: presidential results by congressional district.