MAY UPDATE: Added some new polls and also a meta-poll assessing the quality of select pollsters.

APRIL UPDATE : The dataset now contains approval ratings for sitting presidents, which includes Biden and Trump. Check out the trend lines from 538; the upcoming election features the two presidents with the lowest net approval among all presidents since WWII.

MARCH UPDATE: As of last week, the presumptive nominees are Joe Biden(D) and Donald Trump(R). They also ran against each other in 2020. Robert F Kennedy Jr is running as an independent.

Presidential elections occur quadrennially in years evenly divisible by 4, on the first Tuesday after November 1. Presidential candidates from the major political parties usually declare their intentions to run as early as the spring of the previous calendar year before the election. The two major parties each nominate one candidate through a process of primary elections and nominating conventions during the election year. (source: Wikipedia)

This dataset contains data on candidates, primary/caucus results, polls, and debate transcripts. Updates and additional data will be added as the landscape develops.

Note: Please see Version 3 of this dataset for coverage of the 2022 Congressional Mid-term Elections.