Every Politician
All members of national parliament in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.
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. Going forward, 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 since the year 2000.
Data overview
| Entity count: | 73,177 target entities · 73,177 searchable entities · 73,177 total | ||
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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: | in Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) · Due Diligence List | ||
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Bulk download
Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.
| File name | Export type | Size | |
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entities.ftm.json | FollowTheMoney entities | 48 MB | |
names.txt | Target names text file | 4 MB | |
targets.nested.json | Targets as nested JSON | 48 MB | |
targets.simple.csv | Targets as simplified CSV | 14 MB |
Help: Using the data · format reference · identifier use · commercial licensing
Using the API
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. See also: OpenAPI Specification (JSON)
| Use the Reconciliation API in OpenRefine: | |
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint: | |
For entity matching, use the /match endpoint: |
Recent additions
The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:
| Added | Name | Type | Countries |
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| Lothar Curdt | Person | Germany | |
| Dietrich Bahner junior | Person | Germany | |
| Hellmut Kalbitzer | Person | Germany | |
| Álvaro Augusto Veiga de Oliveira | Person | Portugal | |
| Herbert Baack | Person | Germany | |
| Francisco Marcelo Curto | Person | Portugal | |
| Henrique Barrilaro Ruas | Person | Portugal | |
| Josef Felder | Person | Germany | |
| José Augusto Gama | Person | Portugal | |
| José Augusto Seabra | Person | Portugal | |
| José Barros Moura | Person | Portugal | |
| José Falcão e Cunha | Person | Portugal | |
| Vieira de Carvalho | Person | Portugal | |
| Raul Rêgo | Person | Portugal | |
| João Morais Leitão | Person | Portugal | |
| João Rosado Correia | Person | Portugal | |
| Lino de Carvalho | Person | Portugal | |
| Cecil Walker | Person | United Kingdom | |
| Hans Bay | Person | Germany | |
| Georg Kahn-Ackermann | Person | Germany | |
| Georges Borel | Person | Switzerland | |
| Arrigo Caroni | Person | Switzerland | |
| Max Arnold | Person | Switzerland | |
| Moritz Kämpfen | Person | Switzerland | |
| Julius Birrer | Person | Switzerland |
