Dataset

election-results-data-feed

Real-time and historical election vote counts delivered alongside structured AP news archives.

Dataset card

The Associated Press election results data feed distributes official vote counts and race outcomes from U.S. elections. It is sold under a commercial license and is positioned as a news-archive product for election nights and post-cycle analysis.

What this dataset contains

The feed covers election results, specifically tagged as elections and vote-counts within a broader news archive. Coverage includes race-level results as they are reported on election night and during subsequent canvassing updates. No row count, file size or temporal scope is disclosed in the available metadata.

Structure and fields

The publisher has not published a schema for the feed, and masked sample rows are not available, so specific column names are unknown. Consumers typically receive an incremental stream keyed to race identifiers such as contest, state, county or district, but those fields cannot be confirmed from the provided facts. Licensees generally access results via AP's election services rather than a downloadable flat file.

How analysts use it

Investment desks and political-risk teams historically use AP's election data to track real-time outcomes during election nights and to back-test market reactions to results surprises. Because it is a commercial license product, it is more often licensed by trading firms, media organizations and campaign operations than by individual analysts. With no schema or sample rows provided, any column-level use case would be speculation beyond the documented facts.

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