Campaign Finance Disclosure Expense Data Current State

This file contains information about expenditures made by candidates, lobbyists or committees for the purpose of influencing elections. It includes the identification number of the filer and information about the election (s) and filing cycle (s) during which expenditures were made, as well as general information about the payees. The data is also available and searchable on www.campaignfinanceonline.pa.gov.

Querying over HTTP

Splitgraph serves as an HTTP API that lets you run SQL queries directly on this data to power Web applications. For example:

curl https://data.splitgraph.com/sql/query/ddn \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d@-<<EOF
{"sql": "
    SELECT *
    FROM \"pa-gov/campaign-finance-disclosure-expense-data-current-btk5-mx6k\".\"campaign_finance_disclosure_expense_data_current\"
    LIMIT 100 
"}
EOF

See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.