Civic Corner: Libraries Fostering Civic Engagement: Contact Your Elected Officials!

A Starting Point is a video-based civic engagement platform created by Chris Evans, Mark Kassen, and technology entrepreneur Joe Kiani. ASP’s mission is to create a bipartisan channel of communication and connectivity between Americans and their elected officials with the goal of creating a more informed electorate.

Provides voting records for representatives and senators, information about presidential candidates, directories of state legislator, campaign finance information, and reference documents such as such as the Constitution, the U.S. Government Manual, and How Our Laws are Made

Stumped by the media mayhem and roaring rhetoric of political campaigns? Get historical context and tools to demystify election procedures, analyze campaign messages and make your voice matter.

Maps of Polls, Predictions, and Endorsements. Mapped data for country, individual states, and county. Includes historical election information.

Nonprofit, nonpartisan archive of presidential documents, hosted at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Find many primary sources.

Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Behring Center

Recent presidential campaigns, 2000 and on.

The Clerk of the U.S. House Representatives lists elections results from 1920 to most recent, the official vote counts for presidential electors, U.S. senators, and U.S. Representatives.

A searchable collection of election returns from the earliest years of American democracy, 1787-1825.

Contains its research activities on elections, statistical data from NES survey from 1952 to the present, and searchable lists and abstracts for NES various election studies.