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, 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.
• 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 contact [email protected].