Governance Project
We offer a nationwide dataset of federal, state, and local elected officials.
What you get
- Elected officials at the federal, state, and county levels of government, as well as U.S. territories and most major cities.
- Officials’ names, the offices they hold, party affiliation for partisan offices, contact information, websites, and social media handles.
How we source our data and keep it up to date
- The Governance Project dataset is sourced directly from state and local government officials, and then put in a standardized format.
- CTCL regularly updates our data after general elections, including the November general election and local elections that occur throughout the year, to ensure that newly sworn-in officeholders are reflected in the data and contact information is up to date.
- In addition to post-election updates, the Governance Project dataset is updated on a weekly basis to reflect changes due to resignation, appointment, special elections, or other circumstances. CTCL utilizes a suite of custom-built alerts and web scrapers that indicate changes in officeholders or government websites.
- Lastly, the Governance Project dataset undergoes both automated validations and manual quality assurance checks throughout the year to ensure internal consistency and data accuracy.
How to access our data
- Our Governance Project data is available in XML and tab-delimited .txt files, and contains OCDIDs.
- If you’re interested in obtaining our data, please reach out to us here.
How is Governance Project data tied to political geography?
The Governance Project uses Open Civic Data Identifiers to tie officeholders and offices to the districts that they serve. This allows the Governance Project to provide, given a user’s address, only relevant information about the elected officials that represent the specific user and helps us ensure our data can be easily integrated with other civic datasets.
How can I help keep Governance Project data up to date?
If you notice that something is inaccurate, incomplete, or missing from the governance project dataset, please reach out to us here.
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