Candidate Data Service editor's continually maintain all U.S. congressional, presidential, state executive, and state legislative candidate data. Whether you're looking for contact information or more extensive data on each candidate, KnowWho data will help you sell your products and services, or dive deeper into the campaign world.
Level_1 Data Service: includes candidate information; campaign address, phone and fax numbers; email and website; political party; and a set of identifiers (chamber, district code, etc.), race status (running, defeated, primary winner, etc.). It also includes social media, FEC financial data (US Congress only), and KnowWho’s proprietary candidate probability scoring (over 95% accurate in 2010, 2012 & 2014).
Level 1 data is available in Microsoft Excel only
Level_2 Data Service: includes all the information in our Level_1 service plus multiple campaign office addresses and primary campaign committee ID and contact info. It also comes bundled with the candidate photographs and biographical data. Level_2 Candidate Data is delivered in a more database friendly format.
Level 2 data is available in Microsoft Access, CSV, MySQL Dump, and MS SQL Server BCP
Level_3 Data Service: consists of 48 tables of data including the information listed above plus background and biographical data, which is seamlessly integrated into your application's backend.
Level 3 data is available Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle using snapshot replication or MySQL using a dump file downloaded from our FTP servers
NOTE: All information is provided on an as-available basis and no guarantee can be made as to the amount of data available for each candidate other than name and address.
Candidate Data Service is a comprehensive collection of contact information and profile data on U.S. and state candidates, used by organizations selling campaign promotions, products, and services; polling organizations; software and App developers; and others who need current information on all registered candidates.
Here is what you can expect:
- Complete coverage of all registered U.S. federal and state candidates (except special elections) with campaign identifiers and KnowWho’s proprietary scoring systems to help you rate campaign viability
- Contact information including primary campaign office address, phone and fax numbers, email and website addresses, social media URLs, FEC spending, lead campaign contact (for congressional races), and more in the premium service
- Option to add biographical information and photos
- Highly scalable with multiple service levels, frequency, and delivery options available (in Level 3)
- A highly skilled editorial staff in contact with local offices every day obtaining updates to ensure the highest possible accuracy
- Top-notch technical support and customer service available 24/7 online and by phone or email during normal business hours
Organization Types Who Use this Product:
- Developers and Consultants
- Promotional Item Retailers
- Campaign Product and Service Providers
- Polling Organizations
Other Data Services Available:
- Congress Data Service
- FedExec Data Service
- State Legislatures Data Service
- State Executives Data Service
- County KnowWho Data Service
- Congress 9-Digit ZIP Code Data Service
- Media Advocacy Data Service