Government · connector template fec-candidates

FEC Federal Candidates

Federal Election Commission candidate records for campaign-finance research with cited rows back to FEC filings.

This source is available as a connector you can add to your own workspace. It is not in the free hosted catalog yet.

Query with MCP

Canonical endpoint https://api.opendistrict.org/mcp (legacy https://mcp.opendistrict.org/mcp). A free API key is required (Authorization: Bearer $OD_API_KEY); mint one after signup. Example shape for this template:

SELECT event_type, created_at, source_id
FROM events
WHERE event_type = 'fec.candidate'
LIMIT 20

Event types vary by sync configuration. Call get_schema or catalog on your tenant for live tables. Connector template id: fec-candidates.

FEC bulk data is public domain; declare User-Agent and respect rate limits. Servability and ingestion rules are documented in the source ledger.