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All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.
The EveryPolitician project ran until 2019 and created a mechanism for consolidating data about members of parliament for 233 different countries and territories. As part of the project, EveryPolitician operated a large fleet of crawlers which read the web sites of parliaments around the world.
OpenSanctions only includes persons from this dataset which meet our standard criteria of PEP classification: national legislature members are included for 20 years after they held a position if an end date is known, otherwise for 40 years after they entered the position. They are excluded 5 years after their death, or 120 years after their birth.
In June 2019, MySociety announced that the EveryPolitician project was being placed on hold and that no further updates would be made to this dataset.
OpenSanctions imports data from EveryPolitician only for the purpose of maintaining historical coverage of PEPs, and will eventually replace this source with more current datasets.
We are also working to relaunch the EveryPolitician website as a public data resource in the future.
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| Publisher: | UK Citizens Online Democracy (MySociety) · Global non-official source MySociety is a non-profit group developing online technologies that empower citizens to participate in politics and civic life. | ||||||
| Collections: | in OpenSanctions Default · Politically Exposed Persons Datasets | ||||||
| Information: | www.everypolitician.org | ||||||
| Source data: | data.opensanctions.org · JSON | ||||||
| Tags: | list.pep | ||||||
| Coverage: | added · current until · frequency: not automated | ||||||
| Last processed: | 2026-02-05 20:37:35 · v. 20260205203735-irc | ||||||
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| Errors: | 1 Error | ||||||
Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.
| File name | Export type | Size | |
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entities.ftm.json | FollowTheMoney entities | 44.24 MB | |
names.txt | Target names text file | 2.36 MB | |
senzing.json | Senzing entity format | 30.72 MB | |
targets.nested.json | Targets as nested JSON | 63.99 MB | |
targets.simple.csv | Targets as simplified CSV | 9.49 MB |
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You can query the data in this dataset via the application programming interface (API) endpoints below. Please read the introduction for documentation and terms of service.
| Use the Reconciliation API in OpenRefine: | |
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint: | |
For entity matching, use the /match endpoint: |
The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:
| Added | Name | Type | Countries |
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| Shimon Peres | Person | Israel | |
| Robert Byrd | Person | United States | |
| Daniel Inouye | Person | United States | |
| Walter B. Jones | Person | United States | |
| Bill Young | Person | United States | |
| Winnie Madikizela-Mandela | Person | South Africa | |
| Ted Stevens | Person | United States | |
| Benjamin Ben-Eliezer | Person | Israel | |
| Arlen Specter | Person | United States | |
| Guido Westerwelle | Person | Germany | |
| Bob Bennett | Person | United States | |
| Louise Slaughter | Person | United States | |
| Jim Jeffords | Person | United States | |
| Daniel Akaka | Person | United States | |
| Tzannis Tzannetakis | Person | Greece |
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