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  ABOUT OUR CAMPAIGNS

OurCampaigns is a comprehensive political data resource whose mission is to collect and make available information about all official elections, historical, current and ongoing. Our primary focus is on the United States, but we also intend to collect all international election data as well.

This data includes not only the election results themselves, but also information and photos on the candidates, polls, advertisements, endorsements, finance reports, predictions, the most important news items, district maps and data and mapping of what detailed data is available.

OurCampaigns has been a work in progress since 2002. We are a collaboration with our trusted users who have access to a large variety of tools to help enter and maintain the data. We always need more help with our enormous task, so if you want to contribute please sign up for an account and after a short time of contributing you will get access to the systems. We appreciate it very much.


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Site Data Statistics
Type Number Download
Members 11,764 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Containers 188,937 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Races 597,694 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Race Members 1,653,616 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Candidates 682,153 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34
Polls 69,589 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
Poll Results 263,598 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
Polling Firms 1,909 0 1
Ad Videos 6,363
Endorsements 194,279 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38
Finance Reports 4,848 0 1 2 3 4
Maps 10,748
Map Locations 113,984
Precincts 279,451
Issues 327 0
Parties 16,075 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
News Items 97,834 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Books 1,758 0 1
Links 5,901 0 1 2 3 4 5
Leaning Predictions 327,987 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32
% Predictions 48,662 0 1 2 3 4
Site Polls 6,279
Messages 58,346


Data Entry To-Do
Suggested Date Suggested By Description
Mar 13, 2020 10:28am RP Add current Municipality Maps
Mar 13, 2020 10:19am RP Add Incorporation Dates, Websites, Images for Counties and Cities
Mar 13, 2020 10:18am RP Add Historical Population for Counties and Cities
Aug 05, 2019 09:39pm RP Current County-Level offices and race-results
Oct 19, 2017 02:30pm RP Populate FEC Committee data
Jul 17, 2017 03:31pm RP Set up historical counties
Sep 25, 2012 10:52am RP Enter Ad Videos
Apr 16, 2012 11:21pm RP Set GDP for all Countries and States/Provinces
Apr 16, 2012 11:19pm RP Set or Update Population for all Countries and States/Provinces
Apr 04, 2012 02:35pm RP Reduce Polygon Map Files Sizes
Jun 06, 2011 04:00pm RP Add Lat/Lon Coordinates for all State House District Maps 1993-2003
Jun 06, 2011 03:59pm RP Add Lat/Lon Coordinates for all State Senate District Maps 1993-2003
Apr 22, 2011 06:12pm RP Add Lat/Lon Coordinates for all State House District Maps 2013-2023
Apr 22, 2011 06:11pm RP Add Lat/Lon Coordinates for all State Senate District Maps 2013-2023
Apr 22, 2011 06:10pm RP Add Lat/Lon Coordinates for all US House District Maps 2013-2023
Oct 01, 2010 11:48am RP Add Presidential Results for Congressional Districts
Jul 23, 2010 08:08pm RP Set Polygon Coords for all counties (non-latitude/longitude)
Jul 23, 2010 12:03pm RP Add Household data in DMAs


Programming Changes/Suggestions
Completed Description
Jun 08, 2024 07:16pm Add Previous Party field to Party
Aug 20, 2023 01:35pm Move Media Capability
Mar 21, 2023 09:35pm Link Historical Containers
Mar 19, 2023 02:07pm Honorific Capability
Feb 04, 2023 10:56am Anti-Endorsements