What it returns
US federal campaign finance from the Federal Election Commission's official bulk data, in clean JSON. Any cycle since 1980; refreshed daily by the FEC.
Candidates:** every House, Senate and presidential candidate with party, state, district, incumbent/challenger/open-seat status, principal campaign committee, total receipts and disbursements, cash on hand, debts, and the split between individual, PAC, party and self-funding, plus loans. Committees:** every PAC, super PAC, party and candidate committee with type, designation (leadership PAC, lobbyist PAC, joint fundraiser), connected organization, treasurer, receipts, spending, contributions to other committees and independent expenditures. Contributions:** PAC and party contributions to candidates, and independent expenditures supporting or opposing them, with date, amount, report type and a link to the filing image.
Common uses
Race dashboards: who is out-raising whom, cash on hand by seat. Track which corporate PACs fund which members of Congress. Super PAC spending for and against candidates.
Request
POST https://api.pushbuild.com/fec-campaign-finance/run with a JSON body. Send your key in the X-API-Key header.
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
dataset | string: candidates, committees, contributions | What to return. Default: "candidates". |
cycle | integer | Even year, e.g. 2026, 2024, 2020. Defaults to the current cycle. |
query | string | All words must appear in the candidate, committee or connected-organization name. |
offices | list of strings | H (House), S (Senate), P (President). |
states | list of strings | Two-letter codes (candidate office state, or committee address state). |
district | string | e.g. 07 (candidates only). |
parties | list of strings | e.g. DEM, REP, LIB, GRE, IND. |
candidateIds | list of strings | e.g. S8GA00180. |
committeeIds | list of strings | e.g. C00484642. |
committeeTypes | list of strings | Committees only: O (super PAC), Q/N (PAC), X/Y (party), H/S/P (candidate), V/W (hybrid PAC). |
minReceipts | integer | Candidates and committees. |
minAmount | integer | Contributions only. |
dateFrom | string | Contributions only, YYYY-MM-DD. |
dateTo | string | Contributions only, YYYY-MM-DD. |
transactionTypes | list of strings | Contributions only: 24K (direct contribution), 24E/24A (independent expenditure for/against), 24C (party coordinated), 24Z (in-kind). |
maxItems | integer | Maximum items to return (1-500). Default: 100. |
Example
curl -X POST https://api.pushbuild.com/fec-campaign-finance/run \
-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"cycle": 2026, "maxItems": 20}'Response
{"count": 20, "truncated": false, "seconds": 1.4, "items": [ { ... } ]}Each call returns up to 500 items. Records that fail validation or are not found are flagged in the items and not charged.
Pricing
Pay only for results returned: $0.24 per 1,000 rows. No charge for errors or empty searches.
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