National Committee for an Effective Congress

What We Do

The NCEC has been a stalwart supporter of progressive candidates since our founding. In the beginning, we supported candidates in a more traditional capacity—with financial help. But now, the committee has evolved to support candidates and campaigns with data and analysis to plan campaign strategies. Our Data has been widely used in progressive campaigns for decades as a trustworthy me

asure of candidate support, persuadable voters, and demographic character for every district in America. The NCEC's Democratic Performance Index (DPI) is an accurate cornerstone on which campaigns build their vote goals and paths to victory. DPI is backed with the NCEC's extensive repository of actual candidate performance—the most comprehensive archive of its kind spanning back to the early 1980s. Where Does Your Donation Go? With the help of small dollar donors, the NCEC provides its data and analysis to progressive candidates at no cost to them. We spend a great deal of effort selecting, integrating, formatting, and auditing election results as well as demographic data for almost every precinct in the country. We also match new results to the precinct lines of previous elections, which are always changing. Although it seems like a wild statistic, almost 50 – 80 percent of data analysis work is spent preparing and cleaning data. The NCEC does much of this work so that others don't have to.