Find non-legislative districts

Request

Elected Officials tracks non-legislative district boundaries and makes information about the districts available through the nonlegislative_district resource. The types of non-legislative districts tracked by Elected Officials vary regionally. The default response ordering is by id.

Use location queries on this resource.

Cost: 1 credit

Query

formatstring

Specify the desired format of the response.

Enum:"json""xml"

Example:format=json

customer_idstring, (password)required

Required. The License Key issued by Melissa.

Example:customer_id={REPLACE-WITH-YOUR-LICENSE-KEY}

keystring, (password)deprecated

The License Key issued by Melissa.

district_typestringrequired

Required. The type of district.

Example:district_type=SCHOOL

latstringrequired

Required. The latitude of the location.

Example:lat=33.637562

lonstringrequired

Required. The longitude of the location.

Example:lon=-117.606887

search_locstring

Required. One line address or a single search string.

search_addressstring

Required. The street address of the location.

search_neighborhoodstring

Required. The official neighborhood of the location (in countries with postal designations e.g., Mexico).

search_citystring

Required. The city of the location.

search_statestring

Required. The state of the location.

search_postalstring

Required. The postal code of the location.

search_countrystring

Required. The country of the location (Use ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code).

district_idstring

The identifying code for the district within its delegation or district type.

maxinteger

The maximum number of objects to return.

offsetinteger

Number of items to skip in the response, starting from the beginning of the list.

citystring

The city of the location used as a filter.

statestring

The state of the location used as a filter.

countrystring

The country of the location (Use ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code) used as a filter.

valid_onstring

The date the district is valid on. Date should be specified in a YYYY-MM-DD format.

valid_on_or_afterstring

The date the district is valid on or after. Date should be specified in a YYYY-MM-DD format.

valid_on_or_beforestring

The date the district is valid on or before. Date should be specified in a YYYY-MM-DD format.

valid_rangestring

The dates during which the district is valid. Dates should be specified in a YYYY-MM-DD format and separated by a comma. Use ALL to return every district in all valid date ranges.

Acceptstringrequired

Format of the response.

Enum:"application/json""*/*"

Example:*/*

Content-Typestringrequired

Format of the request.

Enum:"application/json""application/xml"

curl -i -X GET \
  'https://electedofficials.melissadata.net/v3.1/nonlegislative_district?customer_id=%7BREPLACE-WITH-YOUR-LICENSE-KEY%7D&district_type=SCHOOL&lat=33.637562&lon=-117.606887' \
  -H 'Accept: */*' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json'

Responses

Successful response

Body

responseobject

Response

{
  "response": {
    "errors": [],
    "messages": [],
    "results": { … }
  }
}