For Academic & Policy Researchers

The Election Dataset You've Been Wishing Existed.

Federal race data is decent. State legislative and county election data? It's a patchwork of PDFs, inconsistent state websites, and manual data entry. Until now.

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What's in the Data

A single, normalized dataset covering every level of American elections — structured for analysis, not for scraping.

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Candidates & Races

Every federal, state legislative, and statewide race across all 50 states + DC. Party affiliation, incumbent status, candidate positions, and campaign linkages — normalized and queryable.

7,200+ races · ~3,500 candidates
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District Boundaries

Census-sourced GeoJSON geometries for Congressional, State Senate, State House, and County districts. Bounding boxes, centroids, area calculations, and FIPS codes included.

10,500+ boundary records
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Voter Rules

Registration deadlines, ID requirements, primary types, absentee access levels, ballot curing rules, and felon reenfranchisement policies for every jurisdiction.

All 50 states + DC
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Election Administration

State election authority contacts, voting system vendors and models, results feed formats, ENR system types, and official results URLs for every state.

51 election authorities
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Endorsements

Structured endorsement records linking endorsing organizations to candidates — endorser name, type, date, and source URL. Ready for network and influence analysis.

Growing collection
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Historical Data

Coming soon: past election results, prior candidate records, and trend data across cycles. Designed for longitudinal analysis and electoral pattern research.

Coming 2027
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Research Pricing

Transparent tiers for individual researchers, labs, and institutions. All plans include API access and documentation.

Free
Exploration & prototyping
Free
 
  • 100 API requests / day
  • Boundary lookups by state & district
  • Basic race and candidate data
  • JSON responses
  • No bulk exports
  • No GeoJSON downloads
  • No historical data
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Institutional License
University labs, think tanks, policy institutes
$5,000–10,000
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scaled to institution size
  • Everything in Research, plus:
  • Up to 10 named users
  • 50,000 API requests / day
  • Custom data extracts on request
  • Priority support & onboarding call
  • Annual data refresh briefings
  • Co-authorship consideration on publications using BallotWatch data
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Redistricting & Consulting Engagements

Need custom boundary analysis, district overlap calculations, or bespoke data packages for litigation or policy work? We offer consulting engagements at $1,000–5,000 per project, depending on scope. Get in touch to discuss your needs.

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Request Research Access

Tell us about your project and we'll set you up with the right data package. Academic discounts available for unfunded research.

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