Research Guides: POLS 224: The American Presidency (HC): Statistics

Finding Statistics

Historical Statistics of the United States
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Contains more than 37,000 annual time series of quantitative historical information covering population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, governance, and international relations. Covers the colonial period to the present.

Presidential elections, 1789-2008: county, state, and national mapping of election data
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Presidential Elections is an almanac of the popular vote in every presidential election in American history, analyzed at the county level with histories of each campaign, graphs, and four-color maps... In providing a higher-resolution view of voting behavior the authors of this new volume enable examination of local and regional political trends that are invisible in state-level aggregations. -- Publisher's description
Presidential Vetoes, 1789 to the Present
Historical documents made available on the U. S. Senate website.

Statistical Abstract of the United States
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This summary of statistics covers social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. It is compiled by the Proquest publishing company.

Statistical Abstract of the U.S. Series (1878-2012)
Archived editions of the Statistical Abstract of the U.S. up to 2012 are available via the website of the U.S. Census Bureau.
Vital statistics on the presidency: George Washington to Barack Obama
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Provides quantitative data on presidents from George Washington through the reelection of Barack Obama. Allows for comparisons across time as well as a way to contextualize changing trends.