Mapping Early American Elections offers a window into the formative era of American politics by producing interactive maps and visualizations of Congressional elections from 1787 to 1825. The project makes available the electoral returns and spatial data underlying those maps, along with topical essays on the political history of the period and tutorials to encourage users to use the datasets to create their own maps.
If you use this project, please use the following citation or something like it:
Mapping Early American Elections project team, Mapping Early American Elections, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University (2019): https://earlyamericanelections.org, https://doi.org/10.31835/meae.
The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2016 to offer enhanced access to the early American election returns in the New Nation Votes collection at Tufts University. The New Nation Votes dataset is the only comprehensive record of elections in existence for the early American republic. Scattered in newspapers, state archives, and local repositories around the country, the election returns have been painstakingly gathered over the past forty-five years by Philip J. Lampi of the American Antiquarian Society.
You can find the data we have released in our GitHub repository, along with the other code produced by the project.
For more about the project, please read our introductory essay and the other essays on early American politics.
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University:
Ken Albers, web designer and developer
Jordan Bratt, graduate research assistant for data and geospatial analysis
Sheila Brennan, project co-director
Brandan Buck, graduate research assistant
Lincoln Mullen, project co-director
Danny Kim, undergraduate research assistant
Greta Swain, graduate research assistant for data and geospatial analysis
LaQuanda Walters Cooper, graduate research assistant
Rosemarie Zagarri, lead historian
Project Consultants:
Philip Lampi, American Antiquarian Society
Andrew Robertson, City University of New York, Graduate Center
Mapping Early American Elections is generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and developed by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.
This site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
