Politics: Data & Primary Sources

See how candidates and committees raise and spend money in federal elections, 1979/80 - present.
~ Federal Election Commission

Presents data on campaign contributions gathered from public records.

View pre-created tables or generate your own tables of socioeconomic and demographic data at the national, state, and metro level.

Downloadable survey datasets provided by Pew Research's Center for the People & the Press.

Click on the DataFinder to access the PRB's user-friendly database for obtaining basic demographic and health data on the countries of the world.

The study of urban and local politics in the United States has long been hindered by a lack of centralized sources of election data. We introduce a new dataset of about 78,000 candidates in 57,000 electoral contests that encompasses races for seven distinct local political offices in most medium and large cities and counties in the U.S. over the last three decades.

Links to sources of international election data on the Internet.

This website posts results of elections from countries both large and small, dating back to 1998.

Detailed breakdowns of voting and registration by sex, age, race, state, and other dimensions. Coverage runs from the mid-1960s through the present day.

Official election results for every U.S. Senate and House of Representatives race from 1920 through the present.

An impressive collection of presidential documents, including the text of press conferences, executive orders, state of the union addresses, and the Public Papers of the Presidents. 1923 - Present

This website provides access to important documents about the formation and development of the European Community and European Union.

This series is the the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity.

This comprehensive collection of primary documents includes more than 60,000 declassified documents regarding critical U.S. policy decisions.

Constructed and maintained by the Wilson Center’s History and Public Policy Program, the Digital Archive contains newly declassified historical materials from archives around the world—much of it in translation and including diplomatic cables, high level correspondence, meeting minutes and more.

The Reflective Democracy Campaign investigates and confronts the demographics of power in the United States.

The Jewish Virtual Library is the most comprehensive online Jewish encyclopedia in the world, covering everything from anti-Semitism to Zionism. So far, more than 13,000 articles and 6,000 photographs and maps have been integrated into the site. The Library has 13 wings: History, Women, The Holocaust, Travel, Israel & the States, Maps, Politics, Biography, Israel, Religion, Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress, Vital Statistics and Reference. Much of the information in the Library cannot be found anywhere else in the world, such as material on joint U.S.-Israel projects, cooperation between Israel and the individual states and the treatment of Americans during the Holocaust.

The LGBTQ+ Politics and Political Candidates Web Archive captures digital content related to LBGTQ+ political candidates and political issues and topics at various levels of government, with a focus on lesser-known local and state politics. This archive preserves a representative sample of what is being called "The Rainbow Wave," which refers to the previously unprecedented number of LGBTQ+ identified candidates openly running for office. These websites provide a record of individuals attempting historic firsts in American politics. In many cases, these individuals are or are attempting to become the first LGBTQ+ identified candidate to run for or hold the office being sought. In addition, as LGBTQ+ political issues are evolving rapidly, a representative sample of LGBTQ+ political and legal organizations, media, and rhetoric are likewise included here.

A digital library of public policy research, containing thousands of reports and documents from research institutes and think tanks across the country.

This archive of primary documents from World War One has been assembled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L). International in focus, the archive intends to present in one location primary documents concerning the Great War.