/districts

Voting districts endpoint

Given a latitude and longitude point, a list of voting districts will be returned in which that point (address) lies.

By default, the returned voting districts are in effect on the current date. An optional date parameter can be provided, which will show the districts which are/were in effect on that date. See the About redistricting section for more details.

Required parameters: lat, long

Optional parameters: date

Example call

https://api4.ballotpedia.org/data/districts/point?lat=40.5550746&long=-74.27596989999999

Example response

{
    "success": true,
    "data": [
        {
            "id": "249",
            "name": "New Jersey District 6",
            "type": "Congress",
            "url": "https://ballotpedia.org/New_Jersey%27s_6th_Congressional_District",
            "ocdid": "ocd-division/country:us/state:nj/cd:6",
            "nces_id": null,
            "geo_id": "5001600US3406",
            "state": "NJ",
            "end_date": null
        },
        {
            "id": "542",
            "name": "New Jersey",
            "type": "State",
            "url": "https://ballotpedia.org/New_Jersey",
            "ocdid": "ocd-division/country:us/state:nj",
            "nces_id": null,
            "geo_id": "0400000US34",
            "state": "NJ",
            "end_date": null
        },
        {
            "id": "1794",
            "name": "New Jersey State Senate District 19",
            "type": "State Legislative (Upper)",
            "url": "https://ballotpedia.org/New_Jersey_State_Senate_District_19",
            "ocdid": "ocd-division/country:us/state:nj/sldu:19",
            "nces_id": null,
            "geo_id": "610U600US34019",
            "state": "NJ",
            "end_date": null
        },
        {
            "id": "5625",
            "name": "New Jersey General Assembly District 19",
            "type": "State Legislative (Lower)",
            "url": "https://ballotpedia.org/New_Jersey_General_Assembly_District_19",
            "ocdid": "ocd-division/country:us/state:nj/sldl:19",
            "nces_id": null,
            "geo_id": "620L600US34019",
            "state": "NJ",
            "end_date": null
        },
        {
            "id": "93743",
            "name": "United States",
            "type": "Country",
            "url": "https://ballotpedia.org/Federal_Politics",
            "ocdid": "ocd-division/country:us",
            "nces_id": null,
            "geo_id": "0100000US",
            "state": "US",
            "end_date": null
        }
    ],
    "message": null
}