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Data API and downloads

Everything on this site is also available as machine-readable data: a CSV download on each data-heavy page, and a free read-only JSON API. No key, no account, no sign-up. GET only — nothing here writes anything.

How it works

  • Base URL: https://canadash.com/api/v1. Responses are JSON with Content-Type: application/json and allow cross-origin requests.
  • Every response is the same envelope: version, when the data was retrieved from its source, when the response was generated, pagination, the sources that contributed, the derived fields, the attribution and licence notices, and data.
  • Fields are always present. A missing figure is null, never dropped and never a zero — a zero would say the real value was nought.
  • Lists are paged with limit (1–200, default 50) and offset.
  • The API only serves what this site has already loaded. A request never reaches Parliament, Elections Canada, Statistics Canada or a legislature, so you cannot use it to put load on them through us.

Endpoints

15 endpoints

An example request and response

curl "https://canadash.com/api/v1/members?province=on&limit=5"

{
  "api_version": "v1",
  "data_retrieved_at": "2026-09-18T04:12:07.000Z",
  "generated_at": "2026-09-18T21:44:51.221Z",
  "pagination": { "limit": 5, "offset": 0, "count": 5, "total": 343, "has_more": true },
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "house-of-commons",
      "name": "House of Commons of Canada",
      "licence": "House of Commons Open Data",
      "licence_url": "https://www.ourcommons.ca/en/important-notices",
      "redistribution": "open",
      "attribution": "Contains information from the House of Commons of Canada.",
      "note": "Published for free reuse, including commercial reuse, with credit."
    }
  ],
  "derived_fields": [],
  "derived_notice": "Fields marked derived are calculated by Canadash...",
  "attribution_notice": "If you publish anything you took from here, credit the original publisher...",
  "licence_notice": "Canadash's own derived measures... Creative Commons Attribution 4.0...",
  "data": [
    {
      "slug": "example-member",
      "name": "Example Member",
      "party": "Liberal",
      "riding_name": "Example Riding",
      "riding_id": "35035",
      "province": "on",
      "email": null
    }
  ]
}

The notices above are abbreviated here; responses carry them in full.

Rate limit and errors

  • 60 requests a minute per client address, counted per serving instance. Go over it and you get HTTP 429 with retry_after_seconds and a Retry-After header. Wait that long and carry on. Every response also carries X-RateLimit-Remaining. The limit is deliberately modest: it is here so nobody can use this API to hammer our database or the bodies we read from.
  • HTTP 503 with code not_cached means the record exists but this site has not loaded it yet. The API never fetches from the original source — that guarantee is the reason for this error rather than a slow live request. Open the matching page on the site once, then ask again.
  • 400 for a parameter we cannot use (including asking for a province we are not permitted to redistribute), 404 for a record that does not exist, 405 for anything other than GET. Errors are JSON with a code and a plain-language message.

Licence and attribution

Showing someone else’s data on a web page and handing it to you as a file are different acts, and the second one carries obligations. Read this part before you publish anything you take from here.

  • If you publish anything you took from here, credit the original publisher named in the record, not just Canadash. Where a source allows non-commercial use only, that restriction travels with the data.
  • Fields marked derived are calculated by Canadash. They are not published parliamentary statistics and no official body stands behind them.
  • Canadash's own derived measures, page text and the structure of these responses are offered under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. The underlying records belong to the bodies that published them and carry their own terms, listed per response.
  • Every API response lists the sources behind it, and every CSV download carries the same credits as comment lines above the header row, so the attribution travels with the file.
SourceWhat we takeTermsWhat you may do
House of Commons of CanadaRecorded divisions, committee membership and members' office expendituresHouse of Commons Open DataAny purpose, with credit. The House publishes these as open data to be “freely shared, used and built on without restrictions”. Reuse for any purpose, with credit.
OpenParliament.caMember records, riding index, bill sponsors and the per-member ballots on each divisionNo formal data licence publishedNon-commercial reuse only, with credit. OpenParliament is a volunteer project that republishes House of Commons records and offers its own bulk download, but publishes no formal data licence. We pass it on with both credits and no claim of endorsement, and we do not use its name or logo other than as an acknowledgement. If you need certainty for a commercial product, ask its maintainer.
LEGISinfo, Parliament of CanadaFederal bill numbers, titles, types, statuses and stage datesParliament of Canada Important Notices (permission-based)Non-commercial reuse only, with credit. Parliament's site terms ask that permission to reproduce site content be sought from the source, and parliamentary privilege attaches to proceedings. The same bill fields are also published as House of Commons Open Data. We expose bill metadata only — never bill text — and you should seek Parliament's permission before republishing it commercially.
Elections CanadaOfficial voting results by electoral district, and the transposition of the 2021 vote onto the 2023 boundariesElections Canada terms of use (non-commercial reproduction)Non-commercial reuse only, with credit. Elections Canada publishes no blanket open licence for its result files. Reproduction for non-commercial purposes with credit is accepted practice; commercial republication should be cleared with Elections Canada first. We pass that restriction on to you rather than removing it.
Statistics Canada2021 Census Profile figures for federal electoral districtsStatistics Canada Open LicenceAny purpose, with credit. The clearest terms of any source we hold: reuse, publish, distribute or sell, with the source credited and no suggestion that Statistics Canada endorses what you do with it.
Legislative Assembly of OntarioProvincial bill numbers, titles, sponsors and statusesCopyright and privacy — non-commercial use with creditNon-commercial reuse only, with credit. The Speaker permits reasonable, fair, non-commercial use with the Assembly credited. That restriction travels with the data: non-commercial reuse only unless you have the Assembly's permission.
Nova Scotia House of AssemblyProvincial bill numbers, titles, sponsors and statusesCopyright — non-commercial useNon-commercial reuse only, with credit. Reproduction is permitted for non-commercial use; commercial publication needs the Speaker's approval. Same restriction downstream.
Legislative Assembly of New BrunswickProvincial bill numbers, titles, sponsors and statusesDisclaimer — education, study, research and reportingNon-commercial reuse only, with credit. Reproduction without charge is permitted for education, private study, research and news reporting. General commercial redistribution is not covered, so ask the Assembly first.
Legislative Assembly of the Northwest TerritoriesTerritorial bill numbers, titles, sponsors and statusesNo assembly-specific terms publishedNon-commercial reuse only, with credit. The Assembly publishes no reuse terms of its own. Territorial government terms elsewhere allow non-commercial reproduction with credit and require consent for commercial use, so we treat this the same way.
Canadash (derived)Participation, party discipline, voting alignment, competitiveness and small-donor shareCreative Commons Attribution 4.0Any purpose, with credit. These figures are ours, not anyone's official statistics. No parliament, legislature or agency publishes them. Reuse them freely with credit, and label them as derived so your own readers are not misled.

What we deliberately leave out

4 sources excluded

These appear on the site but never in a download or an API response, because their terms do not permit us to pass them on. This is the most important part of this page for anyone planning to build on our data: if you need these, go to the publisher directly.

  • Assemblée nationale du Québec

    Provincial bill numbers, titles, sponsors and statuses

    The Assembly's terms require that content not be modified or altered and bar commercial use. Restructuring a bill list into rows of a CSV or JSON is an alteration, so Quebec bills are shown on the site but are not exported and are not in the API.

    Conditions d'utilisation — non-commercial, no alteration

  • Legislative Assembly of Manitoba

    Provincial bill numbers, titles, sponsors and statuses

    Manitoba's terms permit non-commercial use only and require that material remain unaltered. As with Quebec, a restructured data feed is an alteration, so Manitoba bills are shown on the site but are not exported and are not in the API.

    Manitoba website copyright — non-commercial, unaltered

  • Elections Canada — political contributions

    Named individual contributions to campaigns and associations

    Contribution records name private individuals and are published for statutory purposes under the Canada Elections Act. We show them per member on the site, where the source intends them to be read, but we do not hand them out in bulk: no donor data in any export or API response.

    Canada Elections Act, statutory-purpose restrictions

  • Represent (Open North)

    Postal-code lookups, boundaries and municipal representatives

    Represent is a small non-profit service with rate limits and no published reuse licence, and re-serving its representative lists in bulk would put our traffic on top of theirs. Municipal representatives and postal-code lookups are therefore not exported and not in the API — use Represent directly.

    No formal data licence published

Quebec and Manitoba bills are also held back: those legislatures permit reproduction without alteration only, and restructuring a bill list into rows is an alteration. They stay on the site, where you are reading their own published wording.

Downloads on the site

Each of these pages has a Download CSV control that exports exactly the rows on screen, with your filters and sort applied: members, bills, votes, committees, rankings, office spending, provincial bills and each riding page’s election results.

How each figure is worked out, and what it does not mean, is on About and methodology. Found something wrong? Tell us.