presidential election data

unofficial repository, no affiliation with the FEC

data extracted from here http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/electionresults.shtml

and from http://www.270towin.com/historical-presidential-elections/

install

$ npm install --save presidential-election-data

view any files in ./json to see how the data is formatted

goal

set the data free with consistently-formatted JSON

how

most of these from the FEC were downloaded as an .xls, converted to a .csv, and then parsed as text into .json. the .csv to .json conversion was handled by csv-to-json.js.

some of them went .html/.pdf -> .csv -> .json, and required some manual, potentially error-prone formatting of the data.

the data coming from 270towin was scraped by scrape-270towin.js into raw .js, which was then converted to .json by 270towin-to-json.js.

missing

popular vote counts before 1992

shoutouts

http://www.convertcsv.com/html-table-to-csv.htm