Civic Data Resources
Data focused on voting participation, barriers and trends. Includes research on Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) and resources on Customer Relationship Management (CRM) uses for organizing.
Dashboards: Data portal with easy to access data points, analysis may be available.
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Region: NATIONAL & LOCAL
Description: This dashboard shows the amount of women elected in their local elections after rank choice voting was implemented. There are also a few case studies of American cities.
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Region: NATIONAL, STATE
Description: RCV maps is a multi-state assessment project that analyzes what states need in order to adopts ranked-choice voting. It also includes information about states voting practices.
Datasets: User is able to do analysis with this data. For Civic data this section also includes CRM resources for organizing.
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Region: NATIONAL STATE LOCAL
Description: Account needed to access data. However, this is the PEW centers data on a many subjects regarding population opinion. The data is paired with reports. Citation needed to publish data “Report Title.” Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C. (Publication date) URL. Need SPSS
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Region: N/A
Description: These are a few resources for using EveryAction, a common organizing database that helps organizers keep track of community members that they interact with through events and campaigning. These are a few resources that can help those new to EveryAction learn how to input data, create event, and make data entry for volunteers easier.
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Region: LOCAL
Description: Interactive map with downloadable data of the police departments in Portland OR.
Data tables: Show counts and percentages user is unable to do analysis.
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Region: COUNTY
Description: Graph and tables showing voter party officiation after redistricting. Does not have race or ethnicity information or any geospatial data visualization. Graph and summary table. CCC’s C4 organization has access to the voter file data.
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Region: LOCAL (not Portland)
Description: Databases of ballot data in the cities with rank choice voting. There is a variety of data types dating back to 2000.
Reports: Data is usually not available.
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Region: LOCAL
Description: There exist two, conflicting, conventional wisdoms in the United States about which electoral systems best provide for descriptive representation. On the one hand, single-member districts are understood to be the best way to ensure representation for ethnic and racial minority groups, at least when populations are geographically concentrated. On the other hand, it is well-established that a greater proportion of women are elected in multi-member districts in the United States, especially in state legislatures. At the intersection, minority women are not well served by single-member districts, at least using plurality or majority runoff election, but it is far from clear that multi-member districts are much better. This paper takes a fine-grained approach to electoral systems reform and descriptive representation, exploring the impacts of the reform of the electoral formula in single-member systems in the context of the adoption of the alternative vote (AV) in several California Bay Area cities. Using similar cities in the area that did not adopt AV as controls and a difference-in-differences research design, we show that reform of single-member electoral formulae can have a significant positive effect on descriptive representation.
Citation and link to article: Sarah John, Haley Smith, and Elizabeth Zack, “The Alternative Vote: Do Changes in Single-Member Voting Systems Affect Descriptive Representation of Women and Minorities?,” Electoral Studies 54 (2018): 90–102,
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Region: LOCAL
Description: This project explores the effect of ranked-choice voting (RCV) on substantive representation in nine RCV cities based on a host of fiscal and ideological variables. To evaluate changes in these variables following the switch to RCV, generalized synthetic controls are used to construct hypothetical versions of each of the cities had they not adopted the reform. Then, the hypothetical policy and representational outcomes are compared to the actual outcomes to determine RCV's impact.
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Region: STATE
Description: This article details the barriers to working family civic engagement and includes strategies needed to over come them. This article includes quantitative and qualitative data.
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Region: LOCAL
Description: Demographic, and voter registration data profiles of Portland and Portland neighborhoods. The demographics are very limited and the data is from 2020 census and Feeding America food insecurity data.
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Region: STATE
Description: This report is a call to action for policy makers to implementing racial equity into all matters of the state and a tool for community education on racial equity accomplishments, challenges, and collective aspirations.