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543federal offices
56state executives
7,417state legislators
6,115California roster entries
4,427usable 2026 candidates
20,929federal committees
202,005itemized committee records
25,284outside-spending records
725outside-spending sponsors
1,605substantive employer pages
2,910campaign vendor pages
56state finance registries
97,241Census government records
1,591Congress roll calls
441voted measures
2,386certified federal results
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47 COUNTRIES + 39 RESULTS ADAPTERS + 2 CIVIC-SYSTEM ADAPTERS LIVEInternational country foundations
47 countries · 39 national result adapters · 2 national civic-system adapters
Permanent country IDs, electoral-management source labels, national election institutions, and parliamentary structures
47 countries · 39 national result adapters · 2 national civic-system adaptersThe 19 sovereign G20 members plus Spain, the G20's permanent guest invitee, form the transparent first major-country boundary; Belgium, Chile, the Netherlands, Nigeria, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, and Taiwan are official-source universal expansions beyond it. Every record includes an International IDEA electoral-management label and source year plus IPU-mapped parliamentary institutions. China and Saudi Arabia now publish source-bounded civic-system adapters that distinguish indirect election and appointment from a nationwide popular election result. National result adapters now cover 543 India constituencies, 650 UK constituencies, 343 Canadian ridings, 150 Australian divisions, 299 German constituencies, 577 French constituencies, all 52 South African National Ballot parties plus the final 400-seat allocation, all 3 final Mexican presidential candidacies across 32 state result groups, both official final 2022 Brazilian presidential rounds, all 47 Japan prefecture aggregates and 465 published House winning seats, Italy's 146 included Chamber districts with 390 source-marked standard-domestic winners, Argentina's official provisional 2023 runoff national endpoint plus all 24 district endpoints, Spain's definitive 2023 Congress result with all 52 constituencies and 350 named elected-result records, the Netherlands' final 2025 House result with all 27 national party totals, 20 electoral-district aggregates, and 150 named elected-result records, the Republic of Korea's 2025 presidential table with all 5 candidacies and 17 regions at a 100.0% source count status, Indonesia's official 2024 presidential valid-vote determination with all 3 tickets, 38 provinces, and the separately labeled overseas district, Türkiye's final 2023 presidential runoff with both candidacies, all 81 YSK province rows, and 3 separately accounted result components, Nigeria's official 2023 Presidential Election declaration with all 18 candidate totals plus 37 explicitly non-vote result-document coverage records, and Portugal's final 2025 Assembly result with 21 national candidature totals, 22 electoral-circle outcomes, 230 corrected elected-result names, and 3,092 separately labeled provisional parish rows; and Taiwan's official 2024 presidential result with all three candidate tickets, 22 city and county totals, 368 district and township totals, 7,738 village totals, and 17,795 polling-place rows, all fully reconciled. The United States remains the only full national platform, and every country page names its remaining coverage gaps. Their national-authority fields remain null because neither civic-system institution is mislabeled as an election-management authority.
SourceOfficial G20 membership list + Spain permanent-guest record + Portugal CNE/Diário da República and SGMAI + Taiwan CEC + Colombia Registraduría/CNE + International IDEA + IPU Parline + linked national election authoritiesVerifiedAug 27, 2026
PUBLIC BETAAddress, ballot & API
52 API surfaces
Geography, representatives, election dates, administration, filing records, official statewide layers, and public JSON
52 API surfacesZIP codes and complete addresses open a private research preview with stable election and contest IDs. Exact Census county, incorporated-place, and county-subdivision GEOIDs connect to functioning government entities; California county and incorporated-place matches add the official 2026 local public-official roster. Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Houston, Phoenix, and Philadelphia full addresses now join through 8 fail-closed adapters covering 165 official ward, Council-district, or Supervisor-district boundaries and their current official rosters; ZIP district matches remain explicitly center-point estimates. An exact Los Angeles address in District 3 or 9 connects the matching certified November contest, while ZIP-only results never assign it. The preview is still not a complete specimen ballot, and FEC filing records are never labeled ballot-qualified.
SourceU.S. Census Geocoder, City of Chicago GIS, NYC Department of City Planning, Los Angeles Department of Transportation, DataSF, City of San Diego GIS, City of Houston GIS, City of Phoenix GIS, Philadelphia City Council and City Planning Commission, FEC, EAC/NCSL, California Secretary of State, and the same Electionpedia source stores used by the siteVerifiedGenerated per request
CERTIFIED FIELD + SOURCED COMPARISON + ALL MEASURES LIVELos Angeles certified municipal ballot
4 contests · 8 candidates · 8 attributed campaign images · 57 exact campaign statements · 110 dated position observations · 2 sourced debates · 3 City Clerk transcripts · 4 promise timelines · 43 sourced background records · 977 campaign-reported endorsements · 8 measures
November 3, 2026 Mayor, City Attorney, City Council Districts 3 and 9, and all City measures
4 contests · 8 candidates · 8 attributed campaign images · 57 exact campaign statements · 110 dated position observations · 2 sourced debates · 3 City Clerk transcripts · 4 promise timelines · 43 sourced background records · 977 campaign-reported endorsements · 8 measuresEvery row in the City Clerk's certified candidate list and all 8 measures on its November index are present. All 8 candidates now have a separately attributed current campaign-site record and manually reviewed campaign image; two current sites were independently discovered because the City Clerk publication did not supply a usable current link. A standardized eight-field CV layer publishes 43 source-attributed background records and 34 explicit gaps across all eight candidates; only the certified occupational designation is an official ballot field, while the other 35 records remain campaign biography claims. The source-drift adapters also verify 57 exact campaign-published headings from 19 pages and 977 campaign-reported endorsement records from 8 pages. Of 57 current statements, 53 have a matching archived observation and 4 have current-source evidence only, producing 110 dated archived/live observations; archive time is treated only as observed-by evidence and never a publication or change verdict. The media index records 2 sourced mayoral debate events, 9 verified topic timestamps, and 3 candidate-provided City Clerk transcripts while leaving 3 contest event gaps explicit. The promise-tracker seed adds 4 precisely documented commitments and 8 dated commitment/action records; it reports discrete actions or official measures without kept, broken, effort, motive, causation, or outcome grades, and it does not claim a complete promise inventory. Statements render in equal-topic matrices with 26 explicit empty cells. Endorsement page counts are inventory only and are never candidate rankings. Every measure source is visibly marked DRAFT; 0 files contain mismatched interior summary material, so only validated first-page ballot questions are summarized and the source issue is shown on-page.
SourceLos Angeles Office of the City Clerk + candidate campaign sitesVerifiedOct 18, 2026
OFFICIAL CYCLE GUIDE LIVE · FILING CLOSEDLos Angeles 2026 candidacy filing
14 offices
Mayor, City Attorney, Controller, eight Council districts, and three LAUSD Board districts
14 officesThe City Clerk's two-page candidate guide is fingerprinted and normalized into exact filing steps, two fee/signature alternatives, signature geography, cycle-specific qualifications, terms, dated salaries, and source-reported term-limit notes. It is not a personal eligibility finding, and the March 4, 2026 filing deadline is visibly closed.
SourceLos Angeles City Clerk — General Information for Candidates, 2026VerifiedOct 18, 2026
NATIONAL CONTEST GRAPH LIVECurrent federal contests
475 contests · 4,325 candidate filing records
Permanent 2026 U.S. House and Senate race entities, candidate filing fields, financial summaries, and election dates
475 contests · 4,325 candidate filing records440 House and 35 Senate contest pages group identity-complete, indexable FEC filing records by office, state, and district. Every page links the FEC source, state election authority, current permanent office where resolvable, and same-numbered 2022 House result. These are research fields, not certified candidate lists; ballot qualification, ballot order, withdrawals after the bulk snapshot, and complete sample ballots remain explicitly unverified.
SourceFederal Election Commission bulk data + Federal Election Commission 2026 Congressional Primary Dates and Candidate Filing Deadlines for Ballot AccessVerifiedOct 16, 2026
FILING INDEX + FAIL-CLOSED PTR ROWS LIVEU.S. House financial disclosures
7,039 unique documents · 13,983 verified transaction rows
Official 2024–2026 House Clerk filing indexes, direct PDFs, and validated digital PTR rows
7,039 unique documents · 13,983 verified transaction rowsElectionpedia fingerprints all three official annual ZIP indexes and publishes every unique document row with the source name, district, Clerk code, date field, document ID, and direct government PDF. A separate whole-document parser verified every row in all 1,220 machine-readable PTRs and published 13,983 line items; all 176 image-only scans publish an explicit exclusion reason and zero guessed rows. The dataset retains exact source asset text, type code, transaction code, dates, value or range, owner code, filing status, notes, PDF page, and SHA-256. It keeps 6 Deleted rows as visible filing history but excludes them from active totals, and visibly flags 46 source-date anomalies. It does not cover Senate eFD filings, unvalidated OCR, motive, wrongdoing, intent, profit, loss, current holdings, net worth, or conflict findings.
SourceOffice of the Clerk, U.S. House of RepresentativesVerifiedOct 16, 2026
OFFICIAL 2025 ENTITY LAYER LIVENational government inventory
97,241 records
Counties, municipalities, townships, special districts, school systems, and public pension systems
97,241 records92,756 government or school-system records and 4,485 public pension systems are published from all five Census workbook tabs. This establishes entities, categories, contact fields, and functioning/dormant status—not elected boards, current officeholders, election methods, or exact service boundaries.
SourceU.S. Census BureauVerifiedSep 24, 2025
OFFICIAL 2016–2024 ARCHIVES LIVECertified federal election results
2,386 contests · 13,080 candidate records
Historical U.S. House and Senate candidate totals, percentages, primaries, runoffs, and ranked-choice rounds
2,386 contests · 13,080 candidate recordsEvery House and Senate contest in the FEC Federal Elections 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022 workbooks plus the House Clerk's official 2024 statistics has a permanent result page and API record. The publications compile official state and territory sources. Electionpedia preserves source winner markers where published; 2024 highest-total labels, shares, and all margins are visibly labeled arithmetic. Generic ballot rows never become people, and no projections or live race calls enter this layer.
SourceOffice of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives (2024) + Federal Election Commission (2016–2022)VerifiedAug 27, 2026
REGISTRY LIVE · 12 STATE TRANSACTION ADAPTERSState campaign finance
56 jurisdictions · 12 adapters
Official disclosure agencies nationwide; state contribution and expenditure connectors
56 jurisdictions · 12 adaptersThe FEC directory-derived agency registry covers all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and five territories. California adds 2,153,902 amendment-normalized receipt rows and 2,299,723 expenditure rows. New York adds 1,284,615 contribution rows and 258,664 expenditure rows with amendment flags retained. Washington adds 424,560 contribution rows and 114,546 expenditure rows with signed correction adjustments preserved. Colorado adds 465,435 contribution rows and 118,404 expenditure rows after removing source-marked superseded versions. Massachusetts adds 830,441 receipt rows and 170,533 expenditure rows from OCPF's nightly latest-report-version exports, preserving exact four-decimal source sums. Pennsylvania adds 1,807,085 contribution entries and 565,613 Schedule III expenditure rows from official full-report exports, retaining source amendment flags without unsafe replacement. Florida adds 1,407,555 contribution rows and 168,277 expenditure rows from the official Division of Elections query, without claiming amendment normalization the source cannot prove. Connecticut adds 174,383 receipt rows and 40,855 disbursement rows from eight official SEEC CSVs; original and amendment rows remain separately included because the source provides no transaction replacement identity. Illinois adds 187,808 receipt rows and 187,751 expenditure rows from official statewide and local committee flat files after excluding source-marked archived versions. Minnesota adds 157,850 itemized contribution rows, 59,214 general-spending rows, and 3,973 independent-expenditure rows from official CFB bulk downloads, keeping independent spending separate to avoid double counting. Virginia adds 1,069,786 itemized cash and in-kind contribution rows and 198,356 itemized expenditure and in-kind rows from official daily CSV feeds after selecting the latest amendment for every stable ReportUID. North Carolina adds 754,598 receipt rows and 126,356 expenditure rows from separate official transaction-search CSV exports, each reconciled exactly to the source search count without an unsupported amendment-normalization claim. Individual transaction identities and addresses are withheld; Pennsylvania, Florida, Illinois, and North Carolina contributor and payee names are also withheld, while Connecticut and Minnesota payee or vendor names are withheld because their exports do not classify people versus organizations. The other 44 jurisdiction transaction connectors remain explicit gaps.
SourceFederal Election Commission Combined Federal/State Disclosure and Election DirectoryVerifiedOct 17, 2026
OFFICIAL CURRENT LAYERCalifornia statewide ballot
14 measures + 2 judges
November 3 propositions and statewide Supreme Court retention
14 measures + 2 judgesAll statewide propositions and Supreme Court retention statements in the published voter guide are present. County, local, appellate-district, and Superior Court contests are not claimed complete; the election is upcoming, so no results are shown.
SourceCalifornia Secretary of State Official Voter Information GuideVerifiedOct 18, 2026
OFFICIAL 2026 DIRECTORY LIVECalifornia appellate judiciary
104 justices · 20 court units
Supreme Court and all six Courts of Appeal
104 justices · 20 court units7 Supreme Court and 97 Court of Appeal justices are normalized from the California Secretary of State roster. Court membership and roles are source-reported. Directory presence is not treated as current retention-ballot status, and this layer does not claim a complete Superior Court roster, rulings, ideology, ratings, discipline, or campaign finance.
SourceCalifornia Secretary of StateVerifiedJul 1, 2026
SOURCE-COMPLETE PILOTCandidate intelligence
5 profile + 7 ballot records
Equal-schema CVs, positions, endorsements, questionnaires, comparisons, and official ballot records
5 profile + 7 ballot recordsEvery federal candidate page now exposes the same fields and honest empty states. One incumbent profile has source-complete biography, position, and endorsement layers; seven California District 30 primary records are connected to the official certified list. This release does not infer missing beliefs or general-election status.
SourceCalifornia Secretary of State, official U.S. House pages, and attributed campaign materialVerifiedSep 12, 2026
OPEN · NO VERIFIED RESPONSES PUBLISHEDCandidate Questionnaire Network
4,440 response pages · 0 verified responses
The same eight public questions across federal FEC records and official Los Angeles and San Diego candidate fields
4,440 response pages · 0 verified responsesEvery connected candidate record receives the same question schema and a candidate-specific response path. Electionpedia has not recorded invitations or published verified responses in this release, so no candidate is described as declining or refusing. Federal pages inherit the FEC filing-record limit: inclusion does not prove ballot qualification. Candidate-provided answers can publish only after independent-channel identity review and remain separate from government records.
SourceFEC candidate records, Los Angeles City Clerk certified list, and San Diego City Clerk nominee recordsVerifiedAug 25, 2026
LIVEElection administration
51 profiles
State chief offices, local administrator types, official links, and voting-policy profiles
51 profilesEvery state and Washington, D.C. has a source-linked administration page. Los Angeles County is the first address-resolved local election-authority adapter with direct registration, ballot, voting-location, filing, and results links.
SourceU.S. Election Assistance Commission / NCSL State Election ProfilesVerifiedAug 24, 2026
LIVEFederal
543
Congress, President, VP
543All canonical federal offices; 541 current holders and 2 source-recorded vacancies.
Sourceunitedstates/congress-legislatorsVerifiedOct 16, 2026
LIVEState executives & legislatures
56 + 7,417
Governors, DC mayor, and legislative chambers
56 + 7,417Every state and territory hub has one current statewide executive record, plus every current-role record in the CC0 Open States People file grouped into 6,885 permanent district offices. 7,116 legislator profiles include sourced portraits, including 582 recovered from name-matched official pages.
SourceUSAGov, NGA, Open States + official pagesVerifiedOct 3, 2026
CALIFORNIA OFFICIAL ROSTER + NATIONAL ENTITY MATCHESCounty & municipal
6,115 roster entries · 540 governments
County and local government
6,115 roster entries · 540 governmentsThe California Secretary of State's 2026 CalRoster contributes 6,115 public-official entries from all 58 counties and 483 incorporated places, connected to 540 permanent Census government records. The source does not state whether each individual role is elected or appointed, so Electionpedia does not infer it. Seven visibly truncated source entries are flagged instead of displayed as complete names. National entity matching remains broader than officeholder coverage, and no national completion percentage is claimed.
SourceCalifornia Secretary of State CalRoster + Census Geocoder + 2025 Government Units ListingVerifiedJul 1, 2026
SHELLS ON LOOKUPSchool districts
Live boundary lookup
Unified, secondary, elementary
Live boundary lookupDistrict bodies appear as honest shells. No free national source publishes all current board members, so Electionpedia does not claim a completion percentage.
SourceU.S. Census GeocoderVerifiedResolved per request
The honest gap
A research preview is not a sample ballot.
Electionpedia resolves the district stack and federal filing records, then adds an official statewide ballot layer only where a verified adapter exists. California now has current statewide propositions and Supreme Court retention questions; state candidate contests, local measures, county and municipal contests, appellate and Superior Court contests, and official specimen-ballot order remain visibly incomplete. California county and incorporated-place public officials now come from the dated 2026 CalRoster, while selection method and local ballot qualification remain unclaimed. Los Angeles County is the first local election-authority link adapter.
0filers mislabeled ballot-qualified0records allowed without provenance
Sources & freshness
Every live source connection
Open every source, coverage note and verification date
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unitedstates/congress-legislators ↗Federal offices, terms, identifiers, contact fieldsCC0 1.0Oct 16, 2026
unitedstates/images ↗525 current federal portraits verified against actual Bioguide image filesPublic domain / CC0Oct 16, 2026
Open States People ↗6,534 portraits and 7,417 normalized current-legislator recordsCC0 1.0Oct 18, 2026
Official legislative pages197 people with missing fields recovered by name-matched page extraction; every field retains its page URLSource-linked displayAug 24, 2026
USAGov governor directory ↗56 state and territorial executive records, matched to official government office links and current-holder roster profilesU.S. government links + source-linked rosterOct 3, 2026
Official local adapter registry →196 permanent local office records and 202 current holders from 9 fail-closed adapters (Los Angeles Office of the City Clerk; DataSF current Supervisor districts; Chicago Office of the City Clerk eLMS and City Treasurer; New York City Conflicts of Interest Board; New York City Council; City of Houston City Council, Mayor, and Controller; City of Phoenix Mayor and City Council; Philadelphia City Council and City of Philadelphia Office of the Mayor; City of San Diego City Hall): 21 citywide, 5 borough, 5 county, and 165 district offices, with 173 official portraits. The boundary layer now snapshots 165 official legislative-district polygons across Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, Phoenix, and Philadelphia. Every polygon must join one current roster record; Chicago, San Francisco, Houston, and Phoenix also cross-check the holder names published by their boundary and roster sources before address matching is enabled. Exact Los Angeles matches can connect the certified District 3 or 9 contest; ZIP-center matches cannot.Official local government + GIS boundary joinAug 25, 2026
Los Angeles 2026 candidate and measure guide →8 certified candidates across 4 contests, with official ballot order and candidate-provided contact fields separated by source; plus 8 City Clerk-listed measures with explicit draft-source boundariesOfficial local election sourcesOct 18, 2026
Los Angeles 2026 candidate filing guide →14 offices with official filing steps, fee/signature alternatives, signature geography, requirements, terms, and dated salaries; the cycle deadline is explicitly closedOfficial local candidacy sourceOct 18, 2026
U.S. Census Geocoder ↗Address or coordinate → districts and jurisdiction stack; address responses use private, no-store cachingPublic dataLive per request
OpenStreetMap Nominatim ↗Unambiguous partial-address completion after Census missesODbL attributionCached fallback
FEC candidate bulk data ↗4,427 identity-complete filing records; source shells without a name or race are withheld and no filing is presented as proof of ballot qualificationU.S. governmentOct 16, 2026
FEC committee bulk data ↗20,929 committee registrations; 13,464 have reported financial activity and qualify for indexed money pagesU.S. governmentOct 16, 2026
FEC itemized transaction bulk data ↗201,081 direct committee-contribution rows, 924 coordinated-party rows, and 25,284 current independent-expenditure rows kept as separate categoriesU.S. governmentOct 16, 2026
FEC contributions by individuals ↗33,069,920 current individual receipts normalized from 33,103,774 source rows; only aggregated employer groups meeting a 5-person threshold are published, without names or addressesU.S. government · restricted useOct 16, 2026
FEC operating expenditures ↗1,425,033 current organization-payment rows, 2,910 substantive payee-name pages, and no individual payees publishedU.S. governmentOct 16, 2026
FEC federal/state disclosure directory ↗56 jurisdiction profiles and 74 official disclosure-agency records; California, New York, Washington, Colorado, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania contribution and expenditure adapters are connected, while the other 50 jurisdiction adapters remain explicit gapsU.S. government directoryRevised July 2025
Census 2025 Government Units Listing ↗92,756 government and school-system records plus 4,485 public pension systems; board election method and officeholders are not inferredU.S. government · public use filePublished Sep 24, 2025
California Secretary of State 2026 CalRoster ↗6,115 source-reported public-official entries across 58 counties and 483 incorporated places, joined to 540 Census government IDs; per-role selection method is not inferredCalifornia government · jurisdiction-supplied annual rosterPublished Jul 1, 2026
House Clerk recorded votes ↗676 House roll calls with member-level published vote labels and chamber totalsU.S. governmentThrough Sep 30, 2026
U.S. Senate roll calls ↗915 Senate roll calls with member-level published vote labels and chamber totalsU.S. governmentThrough Sep 30, 2026
FEC 2026 election-date calendar ↗55 state and district-scoped congressional primary/runoff records plus the general-election date; dates are tentative and the FEC does not administer electionsU.S. governmentSource as of May 18, 2026
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