election_dates
Upcoming and past election dates by state and office
How to use it
election_dates is exposed by the Openfec MCP Server MCP server. Add the server to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and others), and the election_dates tool becomes available to the model automatically. See the full listing for setup details and every tool this server provides.
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Aggregated totals per targeted candidate, scoped by candidate ID or by a whole race (office alone for President, plus state for Senate, plus district as well for House)
Top employer aggregates
Every committee of one type — presidential, pac, party, pac-party, house-senate, ie-only
Top occupation aggregates
Aggregate by spending purpose category
Aggregate by payee name
Aggregate by recipient committee ID
Aggregate breakdowns by contribution size range
Geographic breakdown of contributions
is the plural of a search result's documenttype (mur → murs); no is that result's no field, which every document type carries
FEC calendar events
Report due dates by type and year
Individual contribution records with keyset cursor pagination
Get pre-aggregated committee financial totals for one committee, or rank committees of one entity type.
Fetch one legal document in full, including the arrays legal search trims away.
Look up FEC calendar events, filing deadlines, and election dates.
Look up election races and candidate financial summaries.
Find federal candidates by name, state, office, party, or cycle.
Find political committees by name, type, candidate affiliation, or state.
Search itemized individual contributions or aggregate breakdowns by size, state, employer, or occupation.
Search coordinated party expenditures (Schedule F) made on behalf of a candidate.
Search itemized committee spending or aggregate breakdowns by purpose or recipient.
Search independent expenditures supporting or opposing federal candidates.
Search FEC filings and reports by committee, candidate, form type, or date range.
Search FEC legal documents: advisory opinions, enforcement cases, and administrative fines.
Candidates in a race with financial totals
One committee's totals, one row per two-year cycle it filed
Aggregate race financial summary