What is a good source for election statistics?

[mrstick]

I am looking for statistics on turnout for both the primary and the general presidentail election for either 2004, 2000 or 1996. Does anyone know where I can get this data?

[qwghlmian]

1. Wikipedia is a good source

as long as you check the secondary sources it points to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Presidential_elections#Voter_turnout

[mrstick]

2. yeah, but it's hardly a source one can quote in a reasearch paper

[qwghlmian]

3. Yes, but you can follow the reference links they give

for the primary sources of the data - like http://www.fec.gov/pages/htmlto5.htm

[mrstick]

4. oh thanks