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Office Type ID Updates
The Elections API now returns a unique office type ID (up to three letters)
for every race in the Elections response (officeID
in JSON; OfficeID in XML).
The office type ID character limit has been expanded
from one letter to up to three letters to accommodate unique codes for
all office types at the national level (across states).
All one-letter office
type IDs that were previously unique at the national level (across
all states) remain unchanged:
ID |
Office
Type |
G |
Governor |
H |
U.S. House |
I |
Ballot Measure
(for example, Amendment, Initiative, Issue, Measure, Proposal,
Proposition, Referendum or Question) |
P |
President |
S |
U.S. Senate |
Y |
State House, House
of Delegates or State Assembly |
Z |
State Senate or
State Legislature |
All
ballot measures, no matter the type (for example, "Question"
or "Constitutional Amendment") have an office type ID of
"I". A supplemental
three-letter ID starting with "I"
is also available for each of the ballot measure types in a new additional
response field (suppOfficeID in JSON; SuppOfficeID in XML). For additional ballot measure
updates, see Ballot
Measures. For a full list of Office Type ID values, see
Office
Type IDs.
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