# Election.org Public Data API Openapi API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/election-org/election-org-public-data-api-openapi-api/  
**Provider:** Election.org Public Data API — https://apis.io/providers/election-org/  
**Base URL:** https://election.org/api/v1  
**Documentation:** https://election.org/data/api

Election.org Public Data API Openapi API is one of 2 APIs that [Election.org Public Data API](https://apis.io/providers/election-org/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. This API exposes 2 JSON Schema definitions. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and 2 JSON Schemas.

Source-first public election data. Public beta coverage is explicit; null and omitted values are never silently converted to zeroes or inferred facts.

## Operations (56)

| Method | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| GET | `/charts/{slug}` | Chart values, original sources, methodology and copy-ready citation metadata |
| GET | `/` | API discovery |
| GET | `/address` | Resolve an address to geography, public entities, exact school-system profiles, and the current office stack |
| GET | `/representatives` | Return sourced current officeholders |
| GET | `/districts` | Return Census district identifiers |
| GET | `/countries` | Search permanent country foundations |
| GET | `/civic-systems` | Return source-bounded national civic selection systems |
| GET | `/international-results` | Search authoritative international election results |
| GET | `/ballots` | Return an incomplete federal research preview |
| GET | `/elections` | List 2026 federal election dates |
| GET | `/alerts` | Resolve election alerts, calendar subscription, and official voter actions |
| GET | `/contests` | Search permanent 2026 federal contest records |
| GET | `/elections/calendar.ics` | Subscribe to 2026 federal election dates |
| GET | `/election-administration` | Return state election administration profiles |
| GET | `/election-rules` | Return state voting-rule profiles and available current ballot layers |
| GET | `/ballot-measures` | Return official California statewide or Los Angeles local ballot measures |
| GET | `/judges` | Return official California Supreme Court and county-mapped Court of Appeal ballot questions |
| GET | `/judicial-officials` | Search the official California Supreme Court and Court of Appeal roster |
| GET | `/offices` | Search permanent office records |
| GET | `/people` | Search permanent federal and state political-person records |
| GET | `/local-adapters` | Audit official local-government roster adapters |
| GET | `/local-coverage` | Audit nationwide local-power completion by state |
| GET | `/local-candidates` | Search source-backed Los Angeles or San Diego 2026 general-election candidates |
| GET | `/local-candidate-positions` | Search exact campaign-published statements for Los Angeles 2026 candidates |
| GET | `/local-candidate-media` | Search sourced Los Angeles 2026 debate and candidate-media records |
| GET | `/local-position-history` | Audit archived and live observations of Los Angeles 2026 campaign statements |
| GET | `/local-promises` | Search evidence-first Los Angeles campaign promise timelines |
| GET | `/local-candidate-backgrounds` | Compare standardized sourced backgrounds for Los Angeles 2026 candidates |
| GET | `/local-candidate-endorsements` | Search campaign-reported endorsements for Los Angeles 2026 candidates |
| GET | `/office-guides` | Return source-backed public-office authority guides |
| GET | `/authority-topics` | Map civic problems to public decision-authority chains |
| GET | `/candidacy-opportunities` | Return address-matched public-service and candidacy research paths |
| GET | `/candidates` | Search official FEC candidate records |
| GET | `/candidate-filings` | Browse federal candidate first filing dates recorded by the FEC |
| GET | `/candidate-profiles` | Return a source-by-field candidate profile |
| GET | `/questionnaires` | Search uniform candidate questionnaires and verified-response status |
| GET | `/candidate-compare` | Compare two candidates in the same race without scoring |
| GET | `/committees` | Search FEC committee registrations |
| GET | `/finance` | Return separated candidate money categories |
| GET | `/vendors` | Search campaign organization payees or query one committee |
| GET | `/state-finance` | Return official state campaign-finance agencies plus twelve live state contribution and expenditure adapters, including separately reported Minnesota indepen... |
| GET | `/governments` | Search official Census government units and connected local roster records |
| GET | `/school-finance-comparisons` | Return nationwide, state, or exact-system school enrollment and finance comparisons for 2019-2024 |
| GET | `/results` | Search official certified historical federal results |
| GET | `/presidential-results` | Search the official 2024 U.S. presidential result |
| GET | `/financial-disclosures` | Search official U.S. House financial-disclosure filing indexes |
| GET | `/stock-trades` | Search verified U.S. House PTR transaction rows |
| GET | `/political-ads` | Search FEC political communication-spending filing rows |
| GET | `/datasets` | Discover versioned Election.org bulk datasets |
| GET | `/downloads/federal-contests-2026.csv` | Download permanent 2026 federal contest filing fields |
| GET | `/downloads/federal-candidates-2026.csv` | Download identity-complete 2026 federal candidate filing records |
| GET | `/downloads/federal-results-2022.csv` | Download official 2022 federal candidate result records |
| GET | `/downloads/federal-results-2024.csv` | Download official 2024 federal candidate result records |
| GET | `/downloads/federal-results-2020.csv` | Download official 2020 federal candidate result records |
| GET | `/downloads/federal-results-2018.csv` | Download official 2018 federal candidate result records |
| GET | `/downloads/federal-results-2016.csv` | Download official 2016 federal candidate result records |

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/election-org/refs/heads/main/openapi/_original/election-org-openapi-openapi.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/election-org/refs/heads/main/json-schema/election-org-citation-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/election-org/refs/heads/main/json-schema/election-org-public-data-response-schema.json

## Other Election.org Public Data API APIs (1)

- [Election.org Public Data API](https://apis.io/apis/election-org/election-org-public-data-api/)

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