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.

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

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
/year
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.

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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