Every Politician
All members of national parliament in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.
| Targets: | 73,213 People |
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| Publisher: | MySociety (UK Citizens Online Democracy) MySociety is a non-profit group developing online technologies that empower citizens to participate in politics and civic life. |
| Information: | everypolitician.org |
| Source data: | github.com (JSON) |
| Collections: | included in Due Diligence List · Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) |
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The EveryPolitician project ran until 2019 and created a mechanism for consolidating data about members of parliament for 233 different countries and territories. As part of the project, EveryPolitician operated a large fleet of crawlers which read the web sites of parliaments around the world.
The project was shut down in June 2019, leaving the contained data to slowly wither in precision.
*Update, January 2022: The Peppercat Legislators dataset will succeed EveryPolitician. It generates membership data from Wikidata, which is currently incomplete in some jurisdictions. Going forward, the intention is to use the EveryPolitician scrapers to update membership data in Wikidata.
The OpenSanctions importer only includes individuals active within the past 15 years.
Every Politician includes target entities in the following countries. Read about countries...
You can query the data in this dataset via the application programming interface (API) endpoints below. Please read the introduction for documentation and terms of service.
Use the OpenRefine Reconciliation API, by entering this URL in the tool:
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint:
For entity matching, use the /match endpoint:
See also: OpenAPI Specification (JSON)
