FEC

Returns one candidate’s current record: name, party, office, state, district, incumbency, candidate status, first and last file dates, every cycle they were active and their mailing address.

Returns every committee associated with one candidate — principal campaign committees, authorized committees, joint fundraising and leadership PACs — with committee id, name, designation, type, treasurer, filing frequency and active cycles.

Returns up to 20 candidate name/id pairs matching a partial name string — a tiny payload meant for typeahead rather than full search.

Searches every candidate who has ever filed with the FEC and returns their candidate id, name, party, office, state, district, election years, incumbent/challenger status and active cycles.

Returns one aggregated financial summary row per candidate — receipts, disbursements, cash on hand, debts, individual versus PAC money and party affiliation — across all candidates matching the filters.

Returns one candidate’s aggregated finances per election cycle: total receipts and disbursements, cash on hand at the start and close, debts owed, individual and PAC contributions, transfers, loans, refunds and the coverage dates behind them.

Returns one committee’s record: name, type, designation, organization type, treasurer, street address, party, filing frequency, candidate ids it supports and every cycle it has been active.

Returns the individual periodic financial reports a committee filed — one row per report with its coverage dates, report type, amended flag, beginning and ending cash, period and cycle-to-date totals and links to the filing PDF and CSV.

Searches every committee registered with the FEC — campaign committees, PACs, super PACs, party committees — returning committee id, name, type, designation, organization type, treasurer, state, party, filing frequency and active cycles.

Returns one committee’s aggregated finances per cycle: receipts, disbursements, cash on hand, debts, individual itemized and unitemized contributions, PAC and party money, independent expenditures, operating expenditures, transfers and refunds.

Returns scheduled federal elections with their date, type (primary, general, runoff, special, convention), state, district, office and the associated election year and notes.

Returns one row per candidate in a specific race — office, state, district and cycle — with total receipts and disbursements, cash on hand, party, incumbency and the principal committee ids.

Returns the races the FEC holds data for — cycle, office, state, district and the incumbent’s id and name — so you can discover valid office/state/district/cycle combinations.

Searches every document filed with the FEC — reports, statements of candidacy and organization, notices and 24/48-hour reports — returning form type, coverage and receipt dates, amendment chain, total receipts and disbursements and direct PDF and CSV links.

Full-text search across the FEC’s legal corpus — closed enforcement matters (MURs), advisory opinions, administrative fines, regulations and statutes — returning document text excerpts, case numbers, dates, respondents, commission votes and document links.

Returns, for each presidential candidate in an election year, the total individual contributions and contributor count from each state.

Returns individual itemized contributions — donor name, employer, occupation, city, state and ZIP, amount, date, receipt type, the recipient committee and the filing the line came from.

Returns one row per reported employer with the total dollars and contribution count a committee received from that employer’s staff in a cycle.

Returns a committee’s receipts bucketed into the FEC size bands — under $200, $200-499, $500-999, $1000-1999 and $2000+ — with the dollar total and line count in each.

Returns one row per donor state with the total dollars and contribution count a committee received from it in a cycle.

Returns itemized spending lines — recipient name and address, amount, date, disbursement purpose and description, the paying committee and the filing the line came from.

Returns a committee’s spending grouped into the FEC purpose categories — advertising, fundraising, salary, travel, polling, administrative and the rest — with the dollar total and line count in each.

Returns independent expenditure lines — the outside money spent for or against a candidate by super PACs and other non-coordinated spenders — with the spending committee, payee, amount, date, support/oppose indicator, the targeted candidate and the office involved.

Returns one row per spending committee with the total independent expenditures it made supporting and opposing a given candidate in a cycle.

Returns aggregate federal fundraising and spending for a cycle grouped by entity type — presidential, house, senate, PAC, party and super PAC — with cumulative receipts, disbursements, independent expenditures and transfers.