python-elections

A Python wrapper for the Associated Press’s U.S. election data service

Features

• Easy access to AP election results for races in U.S. states and counties.
• Easy access to presidential election results for the nation, the 50 states and all U.S. counties.
• Easy access to AP’s delegate estimates in presidential nomination contests.

Requirements

In order to use this library, you must pay AP for access to the data. More information can be found on the AP’s web site or by contacting Anthony Marquez at amarquez@ap.org.

In the wild

• Los Angeles Times, again, again, and again
• Chicago Tribune, again and again
• Washington Times
• Palm Beach Post and again
• Tampa Bay Times again and again
• Spokane Spokesman-Review, again
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• WYNC
• DJournal.com
• Austin American-Statesman

Documentation

• Getting Started
  • Creating a client
  • Some basics
  • A working example
• The Associated Press client
  • Retrieving data
  • Election result collections
    • Races
    • Reporting units
    • Candidates
    • Result
  • Presidential summary collections
  • Delegate summary collections
    • Nominations
    • State delegations
• Changelog
  • 1.0.0
  • 0.4
  • 0.3
  • 0.2
  • beta
• Authors

Contributing

• Code repository: https://github.com/datadesk/python-elections
• Issues: https://github.com/datadesk/python-elections/issues
• Packaging: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-elections