State Legislative Election Returns Data, 1967-2010

This data set contains information on state legislative election returns from 1967 through 2010. Each observation in the data set refers to an individual candidate who ran for state legislative office during this time period. There are a total of 308,125 observations in the data set. The years 1967 to 2003 contained in the last edition of the dataset have been extensively cleaned, and the years 2004 to 2010 have been added. We greatly encourage scholars and others to make use of the data for their research. If you use the data, we request that you include the following citation to the data set. We would also greatly appreciate receiving citation information for any papers or publications that make use of this data. Please send such information directly to Carl Klarner (Carl.Klarner@indstate.edu). While every effort has been made to eliminate any errors in the data set, with almost a third of a million cases, some errors almost certainly exist. If you identify any errors, please contact Carl Klarner. Please describe the nature of the error, the observation(s) affected by the error, and your source for the correct information.