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Website documenting elections in Pennsylvania, United States
Wilkes University Election Statistics Project Type of site
Election data Available in English Owner
Wilkes University Created by Harold Cox URL
Wilkes Education Registration No Launched 1996 Current status active
The Wilkes University Election Statistics Project is a free online resource documenting Pennsylvania political election results dating back to 1796.
[1]
Currently, the database documents Pennsylvania's county-level vote totals for
President ,
Governor ,
United States Senator , and
Congressional elections back to 1796. The database also contains directories for members of the
Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly and the
Pennsylvania General Assembly , dating back to 1682.
[1]
According to the database's designer,
Wilkes University Professor
Harold E. Cox , "No other state has anything like it."
[1] 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.
[2]
The project has been cataloged by the
Pennsylvania State University Libraries
[3] and the
Van Pelt Library at the
University of Pennsylvania .
[4] It has been cited as a source in academic books about the
Supreme Court of the United States ,
[5]
Communist politicians in
Pennsylvania ,
[6] and a survey of
state-level political parties .
[7]
See also
References
^
a
b
c Jones, Mark E. (July 26, 2004).
"Free election history database a feast for party animals" .
Times Leader .
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania : The Wilkes-Barre Publishing Company. Archived from
the original on July 16, 2011.
^
"Pennsylvania Election Statistics" . staffweb.wilkes.edu . Retrieved 5 October 2018 .
^
"Pennsylvania Statistics & Data" . Penn State Research Guides - Politics & Elections .
Pennsylvania State University Libraries . 2009-02-24.
^
"U.S.Elections: Historical and Contemporary - Research Guide" . Penn Research Guides - Election Statistics .
Van Pelt Library at
University of Pennsylvania . 2008-04-23.
^ Marcus, Maeva; James R. Perry (2007).
"Irvine v. Sims's Lessee" .
The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800: Cases, 1798-1800 (8th ed.).
Columbia University Press . p. 176.
ISBN
978-0-231-13976-2 .
^ Howard, Walter T. (January 28, 2005).
Forgotten Radicals: Communists in the Pennsylvania Anthracite, 1919-1950 .
Lanham, Maryland :
University Press of America . p. 282.
ISBN
978-0-7618-3090-0 .
^ Dubin, Michael J. (July 18, 2007).
Party Affiliations in the State Legislatures: A Year by Year Summary, 1796-2006 .
McFarland & Company . p. 223.
ISBN
978-0-7864-2914-1 .
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