Elections & Voting

The American Political Almanac · 1976–2024

An interactive atlas of U.S. presidential elections, 1976–2024 — national, state, and county returns, demographics, and ANES survey shifts.

Presidential Election Atlas: 1976-2024

A state-by-state presidential election dashboard: move across 1976-2024, compare national outcomes, read the hex map, and inspect which states shifted most from the prior election.

The Attention Budget That Wasn't

We expected Congress to have a fixed attention budget that crises reallocate. Across 25 years of hearings, it doesn't — the calendar rules, most shocks never register, and only a pandemic emptied the schedule.

The Floor Time Gap

2.7 million Commons speeches: women won seats faster than they won the floor. But the gap was never that women speak less — it was who gets to be the busiest voice in the room.

The Mainstreaming Clock

2.7 million Commons speeches, 1979–2020: issues enter the parliamentary record on the schedule of legislation, not ideology — and the party talking most is usually the one holding the pen.

Who Gets to Testify

32,676 congressional hearings, 107,000 witnesses: when a chamber changes party, the witness table changes too — advocacy groups out under Republicans, and a professional witness class that testifies everywhere.

America Now Holds One Election, Not 3,100

Analyze county presidential returns from 1972-2024 to show the nationalization of county swing, the collapse of local variance, and the shrinking count of flipped counties.

Rich Counties Still Lean Republican Once You Control for Diplomas

Combine county returns with ACS and rural-urban measures to show where income, education, ethnicity, and immigration explain the Trump-era county shift.

The Flip Counties Felt It First

In the places that voted for Barack Obama and then Donald Trump, people rated their lives about like everyone else's. What sagged, years before 2016, was where they thought their lives were headed.

The Office Ladder of Defection

ANES vote choice 1952-2024 shows partisan defection by office: the split-ticket ladder opened in the 1980s-90s then collapsed under nationalization; cross-pressured partisans still split most, down-ballot.

The Purple County Is a Lie

Precinct returns · 2024 presidential · MIT Election Lab

The Unpacking

For a generation the Big Sort ran one way: Americans piling into landslide neighborhoods where they never met the other side. Below the county line, between 2016 and 2024, it went briefly into reverse — and the Democratic city, the most…

U.S. election state and county workbook, 1972-2016

Workbook with state and county presidential election results, popular vote shares, red/blue labels, candidates, and electoral votes.

U.S. presidential state returns, 1976-2024

State-level U.S. presidential election returns by candidate, party, state, and year.

Voting Against the Grain · Partisans Whose County Disagrees

Where the Stranded Live

Cooperative Election Study · county returns · 2020–2024

Election dashboard candidate-state table

Chart-ready candidate/state/year election table aggregated from the presidential returns source and enriched with stable candidate identifiers.