The Wilkes University Election Statistics Project is a free online resource documenting Pennsylvania political election results dating back to 1796.
Currently, the database documents Pennsylvania's county-level vote totals for
President
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*President (corporate title)
* President (education), a leader of a college or university
* President (government title)
President may also refer to:
Automobiles
* Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ...
,
Governor
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,
United States Senator
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The composition and po ...
, and
Congressional elections back to 1796. The database also contains directories for members of the
Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly and the
Pennsylvania General Assembly
The Pennsylvania General Assembly is the legislature of the U.S. commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The legislature convenes in the State Capitol building in Harrisburg. In colonial times (1682–1776), the legislature was known as the Pennsylvania ...
, dating back to 1682.
According to the database's designer,
Wilkes University
Wilkes University is a private university in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. It has over 2,200 undergraduates and over 2,200 graduate students (both full and part-time). Wilkes was founded in 1933 as a satellite campus of Bucknell University, and b ...
Professor
Harold E. Cox, "No other state has anything like it."
The project's impetus began in 1996, when Cox inquired about 19th century election statistics, only to find that the data would cost $1,000.
The project has been cataloged by the
Pennsylvania State University Libraries and the
Van Pelt Library at the
University of Pennsylvania
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. It has been cited as a source in academic books about the
Supreme Court of the United States
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,
Communist politicians in
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...
, and a survey of
state-level political parties.
See also
*
Elections in Pennsylvania
Elections in Pennsylvania elect the five state-level offices, the Pennsylvania General Assembly, including the senate and house of representatives, as well as the state's congressional delegation for the United States Senate and the United States ...
References
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External links
Pennsylvania Election Statistics: 1682-2006- The Wilkes University Election Statistics Project
- Mirror site
Wilkes University
Politics of Pennsylvania
Online databases
Elections in the United States
Internet properties established in 1996
1996 establishments in Pennsylvania