Ballotpedia Data Client Documentation
  • Introduction
  • Geographic APIs
    • Getting started with geographic APIs
    • About redistricting
    • /districts
    • /officeholders
    • /election_dates
    • /elections_by_point
    • /elections_by_state
    • Practical guide
  • Bulk data
    • Downloading bulk data via the client portal
  • Downloading bulk data via API
  • Dictionaries and Terms
    • About the Candidates data set
    • Data dictionary: Voting rules
    • Data dictionary: Officeholders
    • Data dictionary: Ballot Measures
    • Data dictionary: Candidates
    • Terms of Use
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  1. Bulk data

Downloading bulk data via the client portal

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Last updated 8 months ago

Ballotpedia’s bulk data clients can access their data on-demand with our client portal at https://clients.ballotpedia.org/. The data is refreshed every 24 hours. You may access your data through two methods, as described below:

  1. Login with provided password and click to download latest file (detailed below)

  2. Access latest data file via API (for technical users, see: Downloading data via API)

Basic instructions

Login to the dashboard at https://clients.ballotpedia.org with the provided email and password.

Upon logging in, you’ll see a list of your available queries with the title and description.

For each query, there are two available formats, JSON and CSV. Clicking on either of these buttons will begin the download process for the respective format.

example of client portal

Please contact Ballotpedia’s data sales team to request password changes.