The United States Elections Project is an information source for the United States electoral system.  The mission of the project is to provide timely and accurate election statistics, electoral laws, research reports, and other useful information regarding the United States electoral system. By providing this information, the project seeks to inform the people of the United States on how their electoral system works, how it may be improved, and how they can participate in it.

Recent Announcements

  • 2020 General Election VEP and VAP Estimates My voting-eligible and voting-age population estimates for the 2020 general election are available here. 
    Posted Oct 8, 2020, 9:17 AM by Michael McDonald
  • 2020 Early Vote Tracker For the 2020 general election, I've moved my early vote tracker to a Github website, which provides with with the ability to generate more tables, maps, and graphs.
    Posted Oct 7, 2020, 6:41 PM by Michael McDonald
  • Classroom Resources to Teach About Mail Balloting Want to bring the hot 2020 election topic of mail balloting into your classroom? I've compiled information, readings, data, and discussion questions to assist you in this blog post
    Posted Aug 14, 2020, 7:26 AM by Michael McDonald
  • Precinct Data We are now producing and releasing precinct boundary and election results data for all U.S. states on the Harvard Dataverse. This effort is generously supported by the Alfred P ...
    Posted Oct 25, 2019, 7:48 AM by Michael McDonald
  • Let 16-year-olds vote for L.A. school board Read my op-ed in support of allowing 16-year-olds the right to vote in Los Angeles school board elections. My observation about pre-registration are drawn from this ...
    Posted May 8, 2019, 12:36 PM by Michael McDonald
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