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Federal candidate and committee data originates with the Federal Election Commission and is in the public domain. State ballot listings and certified results are public records. You may reuse them freely; we ask that you name the record (for example, the FEC filing) rather than Vugol Me as the source, because that is where the number came from. Our transcriptions and normalizations of those records are covered by the Vugol Me license below.

• Federal candidate history, 1980–2024 — Federal Election Commission, candidate master bulk files (every candidate registered for President, U.S. Senate and U.S. House), and FEC “Federal Elections” official results (votes and winners, 2002–2022; the 2024 presidential general). U.S. government work, public domain.

Poll results belong to the pollsters that produced them. We show them with attribution and a link to the original publication. If you republish a poll you found here, attribute the pollster and link its publication; Vugol Me grants no rights in a pollster’s work and cannot.

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Biographical text drawn from Wikipedia is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 and is marked as such where it appears, with a link to the article. If you reuse it, the ShareAlike condition travels with it.

Candidacies from the 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2024 elections (federal, state and local offices, with votes and results) come from the precinct-level returns published by the MIT Election Data and Science Lab (MEDSL), dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. We add up precincts, match candidates to people and label offices; any error in that work is ours. Please cite the source datasets:

• MIT Election Data and Science Lab, “Precinct-Level Returns 2018 by Individual State” and “Local Precinct-Level Returns 2018”, Harvard Dataverse, doi:10.7910/DVN/NVQYMG, doi:10.7910/DVN/CHYXUP.
• MIT Election Data and Science Lab, “Precinct-Level Returns 2020 by Individual State”, Harvard Dataverse, doi:10.7910/DVN/NT66Z3.
• MIT Election Data and Science Lab, “Precinct-Level Returns 2022 by Individual State”, Harvard Dataverse, doi:10.7910/DVN/UYQIEP.
• MIT Election Data and Science Lab, “Precinct-Level Returns 2024 by Individual State”, Harvard Dataverse, doi:10.7910/DVN/NYTPDU.
• Baltz, S., et al., “American election results at the precinct level”, Scientific Data 9, 651 (2022), doi:10.1038/s41597-022-01745-0.

Some 2018–2021 mayor, city council and school board results for cities that no official source we read covers come from the American Local Government Elections Database, licensed under CC BY 4.0 (names are lower-case in the source; we capitalize them):

• de Benedictis-Kessner, J., Lee, D. D. I., Velez, Y. R. and Warshaw, C., “American Local Government Elections Database”, OSF, doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/MV5E6; Scientific Data (2023), doi:10.1038/s41597-023-02792-x.

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• National Mall at dusk; aerials of the Washington Monument, World War II Memorial and Lincoln Memorial: National Park Service, “Welcome to the National Mall” (U.S. government work, public domain).
• U.S. Capitol at dusk: Carol M. Highsmith, “Dusk at U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.”, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (highsm.12505); public domain (dedicated by the photographer; “no known restrictions”).
• House Chamber: U.S. House of Representatives / Office of the Speaker, “United States House of Representatives chamber” (U.S. government work, public domain).

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Community poll counts are open-participation results, not scientific samples, and are labeled so. You may republish them under CC BY 4.0 with the same attribution string, provided the label travels with them.

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