pyelection 0.0.3

Obtain historical US presidential election data

pyelection

Presidential election data collector in Python 3.6

Installation

pip install pyelection

Example: 2016 US Presidential

from pyelection import PyElection
pye = PyElection(year=2016)

By state

import json
state = pye.get_state_summary()
print(json.dumps(state, indent=4, sort_keys=True))

By candidate

# optionally, install pandas for pretty output
import pandas as pd
candidates = pye.get_candidate_summary()
pd.DataFrame(candidates)

Example: Bulk extraction for multiple years

import time
data = {}
for y in range(1956, 2016, 4):
    data[y] = {}
    data[y]['pye'] = PyElection(year=y)
    data[y]['state'] = data[y]['pye'].get_state_summary()
    data[y]['candidate'] = data[y]['pye'].get_candidate_summary()
    time.sleep(0.1)

Note: Current status on the working years:

year	state	candidate
2016	Y	Y
2012	Y	Y
2008	Y	Y
2004	Y	Y
2000	Y	Y
1996	Y	Y
1992	Y	Y
1988	Y	Y
1984	Y	Y
1980	Y	Y
1976	Y	Y
1972	Y	Y
1968	Y	Y
1964	Y	Y
1960	Y	Y
1956	Y	Y
1952	Y	Y
1948	Y	Y
1944	Y	Y
1940	N	Y
1936	N	N
1932	Y	Y
1928	Y	Y
1924	N	N
1920	N	N
1916	N	N
1912	N	N
1908	N	N
1904	N	N
1900	N	N
1896	N	N
1892	N	N
1888	N	N
1884	N	N
1880	N	N
1876	N	N
1872	N	N
1868	N	N
1864	N	N
1860	N	N
1856	N	N
1852	N	N
1848	N	N
1844	N	N
1840	N	N
1836	N	N
1832	N	N
1828	N	N
1824	N	N
1820	N	N
1816	N	N
1812	N	N
1808	N	N
1804	N	N
1800	N	N
1796	N	N
1792	N	N
1789	N	N