Politician Aggregates

Common Parameters

Unless otherwise specified, all aggregate methods respond to entity_id, limit, and cycle parameters.

Methods

Top Politicians

By contributions received, in dollars.

/aggregates/pols/top_:limit.json

Parameters

Example

http://transparencydata.com/api/1.0/aggregates/pols/top_1.json?cycle=2006&apikey=YOUR_KEY

Response

[
    {
        "count": "5322",
        "name": "WESTLY, STEVE",
        "state": "CA",
        "seat": "state:governor",
        "amount": "45272319.37",
        "party": "D",
        "id": "44d550f60eb14260928f9365415e5644"
    }
]

Top Contributors

The top contributing organizations to a given candidate. Giving is broken down into money given directly (by the organization's PAC), versus money given by individuals employed by or associated with the organization.

/aggregates/pol/:entity_id/contributors.json

Example

Get Barack Obama's top donor from 2012:

http://transparencydata.com/api/1.0/aggregates/pol/4148b26f6f1c437cb50ea9ca4699417a/contributors.json?cycle=2012&limit=1&apikey=YOUR_KEY

Response

[
    {
        "employee_amount": "1161884.00",
        "total_amount": "1161884.00",
        "total_count": "2235",
        "name": "University of California",
        "direct_count": "0",
        "employee_count": "2235",
        "id": "0e85264c0c0e4dfb9a4b38cfc181f030",
        "direct_amount": "0"
    }
]

Top Industries

Top contributing industries, ranked by dollars given.

/aggregates/pol/:entity_id/contributors/industries.json

Example

Get Barack Obama's top contributing industry from 2012:

http://transparencydata.com/api/1.0/aggregates/pol/4148b26f6f1c437cb50ea9ca4699417a/contributors/industries.json?cycle=2012&limit=1&apikey=YOUR_KEY

Response

[
    {
        "count": "88315",
        "amount": "43633891.00",
        "id": "b21467ae32924f84ada9076535401a91",
        "should_show_entity": false,
        "name": "RETIRED"
    }
]

Unknown Industries

Contribution count and total for a politician from unknown industries.

/aggregates/pol/:entity_id/contributors/industries_unknown.json

Parameters

Example

Get unknown industry contributions for Barack Obama in 2012:

http://transparencydata.com/api/1.0/aggregates/pol/4148b26f6f1c437cb50ea9ca4699417a/contributors/industries_unknown.json?cycle=2012&apikey=YOUR_KEY

Response

{
    "count": "141945",
    "amount": "69115733.00"
}

Top Sectors

Contribution totals by sector to a given politician.

/aggregates/pol/:entity_id/contributors/sectors.json

Example

Get top sector for Barack Obama in 2012:

http://transparencydata.com/api/1.0/aggregates/pol/4148b26f6f1c437cb50ea9ca4699417a/contributors/sectors.json?cycle=2012&limit=1&apikey=YOUR_KEY

Response

[
    {
        "sector": "W",
        "count": "147016",
        "amount": "72870168.00"
    }
]

Sectors are codified by letter:

A
Agribusiness
B
Communications/Electronics
C
Construction
D
Defense
E
Energy/Natural Resources
F
Finance/Insurance/Real Estate
H
Health
K
Lawyers and Lobbyists
M
Transportation
N
Misc. Business
Q
Ideology/Single Issue
P
Labor
W
Other
Y
Unknown
Z
Administrative Use

Local Breakdown

A breakdown of how much of the money raised by a politician came from inside or outside their home state.

/aggretages/pol/:entity_id/contributors/local_breakdown.json

Parameters

Example

Get local breakdown for Barack Obama's 2002 Senate race:

http://transparencydata.com/api/1.0/aggregates/pol/97737bb56b6a4211bcc57a837368b1a4/contributors/local_breakdown.json?cycle=2002&apikey=YOUR_KEY

Response

{
    "In-State": [
        "96",
        "69925.00"
    ],
    "Out-of-State": [
        "3",
        "400.00"
    ]
}

Values are an array of ["number of contributions", "total amount"]

Contributor Type Breakdown

A breakdown of how much of the money raised came from individuals versus organzations (PACs).

Parameters

Example

Get a type breakdown of Obama's contributors for the 2012 cycle:

http://transparencydata.com/api/1.0/aggregates/pol/4148b26f6f1c437cb50ea9ca4699417a/contributors/type_breakdown.json?cycle=2012&apikey=YOUR_KEY

Response

{
    "Individuals": [
        "458162",
        "255754102.00"
    ],
    "PACs": [
        "7",
        "9700.00"
    ]
}

FEC Summary

Latest figures from the FEC's summary report.

Parameters

Example

Get Obama's latest FEC summary:

http://transparencydata.com/api/1.0/aggregates/pol/4148b26f6f1c437cb50ea9ca4699417a/fec_summary.json?apikey=YOUR_KEY

Response

{
    "contributions_pac": "0.00",
    "office": "P",
    "total_receipts_rank": 1,
    "max_rank": 40,
    "contributions_candidate": "5000.00",
    "transfers_in": "176450000.00",
    "cash_on_hand_rank": 2,
    "total_raised": "724607132.15",
    "disbursements": "729647986.73",
    "total_disbursements_rank": 1,
    "date": "2012-11-26",
    "contributions_indiv": "541012836.42",
    "contributions_party": "8610.28",
    "cash_on_hand": "5397399.35"
}

FEC Independent Expenditures

Top independent expenditures for and against a politician.

/aggregates/pol/:entity_id/fec_indexp.json

Parameters

Example

Get independent expenditures for Obama in the latest election cycle:

http://transparencydata.com/api/1.0/aggregates/pol/4148b26f6f1c437cb50ea9ca4699417a/fec_indexp.json?apikey=YOUR_KEY

Response

[
    {
        committee_name: "RESTORE OUR FUTURE, INC.",
        amount: "88572359.38",
        support_oppose: "Oppose",
        committee_entity: "a0951518abe24d7a95cb99dac25caf90"
    },
    {
        committee_name: "American Crossroads",
        amount: "84622440.84",
        support_oppose: "Oppose",
        committee_entity: "1f7f4dc28a5b42f78ce438c1215768c6"
    },
    ...snip...
]