Voting and Elections Data, Articles, and Research Resources

Cornell University's Data and Democracy lab evaluated data from the November 2024 election, weighing it against some of voters' top concerns in the months before. Read more: https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/the-story/portland-ranked-choice-vote-election-report-research-single-transferrable/283-eedb94d4-5ab0-4660-a2d3-8dc52228b007 Watch more The Story videos: https://bit.ly/TheStoryKGW Follow The Story on Twit....

Dive into four different voting systems: plurality, instant runoff, tactical, and the Condorcet method, and find out which is fairest. -- Imagine we want to build a new space port at one of four recently settled Martian bases, and are holding a vote to choose its location. Of the 100 colonists on Mars, 42 live on West Base, 26 on North Base, 15 on South Base, and 17 on East Base. Assuming that everyone wants the p....

We don’t like the two-party system. So why do we have it? Help keep Vox free for everybody: http://www.vox.com/give-now America’s two-party system is widely hated. Very few Americans think the two major parties do an adequate job representing us, and most say more parties are needed. But when it comes time to vote, very few of us actually vote for third-party candidates. Often, this is explained as either a fa....