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latestOpenAPI 3.0.02026-07-1491170743.1 KBLook at the top-level financial information for all candidates running for the same office.
Choose a 2-year cycle, and house, senate or presidential.
If you are looking for a Senate seat, you will need to select the state using a two-letter abbreviation.
House races require state and a two-digit district number.
Since this endpoint reflects financial information, it will only have candidates once they file financial reporting forms. Query the /candidates endpoint to retrieve an-up-to-date list of all the candidates that filed to run for a particular seat.
Query parameters
Federal office candidate runs for: H, S or P
For paginating through results, starting at page 1
Two-digit US House distirict of the office the candidate is running for. Presidential, Senate and House at-large candidates will have District 00.
US state or territory where a candidate runs for office
Two-year election cycle in which a candidate runs for office. Calculated from Form 2. The cycle begins with an odd year and is named for its ending, even year. This cycle follows the traditional house election cycle and subdivides the presidential and Senate elections into comparable two-year blocks. To retrieve data for the entire four years of a presidential term or six years of a senatorial term, you will need the election_full flag.
Hide null values on sorted column(s).
True indicates that full election period of a candidate. False indicates that two year election cycle.
Toggle that sorts null values last
API key for https://api.data.gov. Get one at https://api.data.gov/signup.
Toggle that filters out all rows having sort column that is non-null
The number of results returned per page. Defaults to 20.
Provide a field to sort by. Use - for descending order.