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Presidential Vote within State Legislative Districts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2021

Michael P. McDonald
Michael P. McDonald*
Affiliation:
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
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Michael P. McDonald, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive 3F4, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA. Email: mmcdon@gmu.edu
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Abstract

Presidential vote shares in legislative districts are widely available for congressional districts and are often used by scholars in their research. Here, I describe the general methodology to construct statewide vote shares within districts and apply these methods to a new database of presidential vote shares within 36 states' legislative districts.

Keywords

voting behaviorpolitical behaviorelectionsredistrictinglegislative politicselection ruleselectoral systems
Type
Research Article
Information
State Politics & Policy Quarterly , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , June 2014 , pp. 196 - 204
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2014

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