Cicero API
Developer Tools for Legislative District and Elected Official Information
Whether you want to provide an elected official lookup tool on your website, or you’re building a new civic application, use the Cicero API for flexible and highly accurate address to district matching and legislator data population. We offer government official and legislative district data on a national, regional and local level for the U.S., Canada, Australia, the U.K. and more.
- Flexible: Utilize multiple resources that return a wealth of legislative district and elected official information, easily integrated into your programs and applications.
- Scalable: Our pricing scales as you do!
- Reliable: With the most accurate data available and a high uptime on our servers, you can feel safe developing on the Cicero API.
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Resources for All Types of Development
Match a location to legislative districts and extensive elected official contact information, or return a configurable boundary map. Our API returns many different queries such as location, officials, maps, election events and more in XML or JSON format.
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Build Specific Tools for Your Business
Organizations from small nonprofits to large enterprises have built tools and applications on the Cicero API. It can meet many development needs like creating constituent records, displaying district boundaries on a map, or showing elected official profiles in an app, among many others.
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Check out a demo of our free officials and districts lookup tool to see an example of the possibilities.
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We ask that you limit API calls to 200 per minute. For more information about user obligations and rights, please see our Terms of Use.
You will need a software developer, or someone who has experience working with a REST API. To see our documentation on how to implement, please visit our documentation.
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A call is a line of communication used to ask an API to return a specific result. In the case of Cicero, you might make a call to the legislative_district resource, which will return a response of legislative districts to the location you specified.