The Wilkes University Election Statistics Project is a free online resource documenting Pennsylvania political election results dating back to 1796.
[1] Currently, the database documents Pennsylvania's county-level vote totals for President, Governor, United States Senator, and Congressional elections back to 1796.
[1] According to the database's designer, Wilkes University Professor Harold E. Cox, "No other state has anything like it.
"[1] The project's impetus began in 1996, when Cox inquired about 19th century election statistics, only to find that the data would cost $1,000.
[4] It has been cited as a source in academic books about the Supreme Court of the United States,[5] Communist politicians in Pennsylvania,[6] and a survey of state-level political parties.