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Center forDigital Democracy

Election Atlas

Data

Cite a page

Cite the Center for Digital Democracy, the Election Atlas, the page address, and the snapshot label printed on the record. If the snapshot label is not supplied, say that. Do not invent a publication date.

Search

The human search is at /atlas/search. It has three modes: seats, election days, and candidate labels. The same query is available as JSON.

GET /api/atlas/search?mode=seat&q=

  • mode is seat, cycle, or candidate.
  • q is limited to 200 characters.
  • Optional filters: country, level, from, and to (years).
  • Responses use a public cache of five minutes.

Downloads

A seat page links to a CSV of that seat. The file address is /atlas/offices/ plus the office id, plus .csv.

An election-day page links to a CSV of the contests on that day. The file address is /atlas/, the country, /elections/, the date, and .csv.

Country bundles are not published on this page. The earlier observatory catalogue remains at /electiondatabase/downloads.