Officials and Staffers

See the Enumeration Documentation CSV file located at Quorum_API_Enumeration_Values.csv, name MajorRoleType, for an explanation of values.

See the Enumeration Documentation CSV file located at Quorum_API_Enumeration_Values.csv, name MinorRoleType, for an explanation of values.

The person's birthday.

NOTE: Parameter accepts additional qualifiers appended to the end:
birthday__year, birthday__month, birthday__day - The value for the record matches the provided year/month/day (note that week_day, hour, minute, and second are also available following similar patterns).

Example Value: 22688

Whether this individual currently holds a role, or if this is archival information.

The person's gender, if known. For historical data, the gender is sometimes not known.

NOTE: Parameter accepts additional qualifiers appended to the end:
gender__in - The value for the record is in the provided array parameter (comma-separated values).
gender__isnull - The value for the record is null (if true) or is not null.

See the Enumeration Documentation CSV file located at Quorum_API_Enumeration_Values.csv, name Gender, for an explanation of values.

Example Value: 2

The Quorum primary key for this record; guaranteed to be persistent and unique across all objects at this endpoint.

Example Value: 400013

See the Enumeration Documentation CSV file located at Quorum_API_Enumeration_Values.csv, name MajorPersonType, for an explanation of values.

The most recent political party of the person.

NOTE: Parameter accepts additional qualifiers appended to the end:
most_recent_party__in - The value for the record is in the provided array parameter (comma-separated values).
most_recent_party__isnull - The value for the record is null (if true) or is not null.

See the Enumeration Documentation CSV file located at Quorum_API_Enumeration_Values.csv, name Party, for an explanation of values.

Example Value: 1

NOTE: Parameter accepts additional qualifiers appended to the end:
most_recent_person_type__in - The value for the record is in the provided array parameter (comma-separated values).
most_recent_person_type__isnull - The value for the record is null (if true) or is not null.

See the Enumeration Documentation CSV file located at Quorum_API_Enumeration_Values.csv, name PersonType, for an explanation of values.

Example Value: 1

The most recent legislature the person has been a part of

NOTE: Parameter accepts additional qualifiers appended to the end:
most_recent_region__in - The value for the record is in the provided array parameter (comma-separated values).
most_recent_region__isnull - The value for the record is null (if true) or is not null.

See the Enumeration Documentation CSV file located at Quorum_API_Enumeration_Values.csv, name Region, for an explanation of values.

Example Value: 1

A shortcut to the most recent role of the person.

NOTE: Parameter accepts additional qualifiers appended to the end:
most_recent_role__in - The value for the record is in the provided array parameter (comma-separated values).
most_recent_role__isnull - The value for the record is null (if true) or is not null.

NOTE: Parameter accepts additional qualifiers appended to the end:
most_recent_role_type__in - The value for the record is in the provided array parameter (comma-separated values).
most_recent_role_type__isnull - The value for the record is null (if true) or is not null.

See the Enumeration Documentation CSV file located at Quorum_API_Enumeration_Values.csv, name RoleType, for an explanation of values.

Example Value: 1

Whether or not a member is brand new in their region.

NOTE: Parameter accepts additional qualifiers appended to the end:
new_legislator__isnull - The value for the record is null (if true) or is not null.

The newperson with which this person is associated.

NOTE: Parameter accepts additional qualifiers appended to the end:
person__in - The value for the record is in the provided array parameter (comma-separated values).
person__isnull - The value for the record is null (if true) or is not null.

The publicorganization with which this person is associated.

NOTE: Parameter accepts additional qualifiers appended to the end:
primary_organization__in - The value for the record is in the provided array parameter (comma-separated values).
primary_organization__isnull - The value for the record is null (if true) or is not null.

The (international) region that this person represents as text, until we have shapefiles that we can map to

NOTE: Parameter accepts additional qualifiers appended to the end:
region_represented__in - The value for the record is in the provided array parameter (comma-separated values).
region_represented__contains, region_represented__icontains - The value for the record contains the string provided as a parameter within it (partial match). (Use 'icontains' for matching to be done case-insensitive)
region_represented__startswith, region_represented__istartswith - The value for the record starts with the string provided as a parameter. (Use 'istartswith' for matching to be done case-insensitive)
region_represented__endswith, region_represented__iendswith - The value for the record ends with the string provided as a parameter within it (partial match). (Use 'iendswith' for matching to be done case-insensitive)
region_represented__iexact - The value for the record is a case-insensitive exact match to the provided parameter.
region_represented__isnull - The value for the record is null (if true) or is not null.

The status of this person (active, incoming, leaving or former).

NOTE: Parameter accepts additional qualifiers appended to the end:
status__in - The value for the record is in the provided array parameter (comma-separated values).
status__isnull - The value for the record is null (if true) or is not null.

See the Enumeration Documentation CSV file located at Quorum_API_Enumeration_Values.csv, name PersonStatus, for an explanation of values.

Option to provide additional detail for certain fields, either by expanding those fields with additional details from the related model or by substituting more informative values for the actual database values.committee - expand committee with additional details.
location - expand location with additional details.
most_recent_country - expand most_recent_country with additional details.
most_recent_role - expand most_recent_role with additional details.
person - expand person with additional details.
NOTE: This parameter can accept one or more comma-separated values; it is not limited to a single value.

Perform an advanced text search on the datset with the provided text. This search will use the most comprehensive search method available on the requested endpoint, but can take slightly longer to return results.

Perform an quick text search on the datset with the provided text. This search method may, depending on the endpoint, be exactly identical to advanced search, or may return results significantly more quickly but with less completeness or accuracy, for example by searching less fields, or using a faster algorithm to identify matches that has a greater propensity for false positives/false negatives.

The number of records to return (for pagination).