Elections & Voting
Presidential returns, county swings, turnout, and the electoral map — interactive atlases and data stories on how America votes.
18 pieces
BlogNewThe Political Ad Ledger
A data booklet on what Google's public political-ads dataset reveals about political advertising in India, 2019–2026: the money, the machinery, and the government behind it.
AppThe 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.
BlogPresidential 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.
BlogNewThe 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.
BlogNewThe 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.
BlogNewThe 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.
BlogNewWho 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.
BlogAmerica 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.
BlogRich 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.
BlogThe 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.
BlogThe 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.
BlogThe Purple County Is a Lie
Precinct returns · 2024 presidential · MIT Election Lab
BlogThe 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.
BlogVoting Against the Grain · Partisans Whose County Disagrees
BlogWhere 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.