Data on the direct primary in US congressional elections

A data set on the presence of the direct primary in U.S. congressional elections and the vote shares for the Democratic, Republican, and third parties. Based on ICPSR Study 6985

primary

Format

A data frame with 1164 observations and the following 7 variables:

state

name of the state

year

year of the congressional election

dem_share

percentage of the total vote cast for the Democratic candidate, 0-100

rep_share

percentage of the total vote cast for the Republican candidate, 0-100

other_share

percentage of the total vote cast for other parties, 0-100

primary

binary variable indicating if the state had the direct primary (=1) or not (=0)

south

binary variable indicating if the state is in the South (=1) or not (=0)

Source

https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/6895

References

David, Paul T., and Claggett, William. Party Strength in the United States: 1872-1996. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-09-10. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06895.v1