Politician

This is a single politician resource from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.

Notes

The other_info field is a direct copy of an internal catchall key-value store; beware that its structure may change frequently.

Content

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{
    "name": "Geng Tan",
    "given_name": "Geng",
    "family_name": "Tan",
    "gender": "male",
    "image": "/media/polpics/geng-tan.jpg",
    "other_info": {
        "alternate_name": [
            "geng tan"
        ],
        "twitter_id": [
            "2761458139"
        ],
        "twitter": [
            "GengTan2"
        ],
        "constituency_offices": [
            "442 McNicoll Avenue (Main Office)\nToronto ON  M2H 2E1\nPhone: 1 416 443-0623"
        ],
        "favourite_word": [
            "technology"
        ],
        "parl_affil_id": [
            "213934",
            "219962",
            "215880"
        ]
    },
    "links": [
        {
            "url": "http://gtan.liberal.ca",
            "note": "Official site"
        }
    ],
    "email": "Geng.Tan@parl.gc.ca",
    "voice": "1 613 995-4988",
    "memberships": [
        {
            "url": "/politicians/memberships/4205/",
            "start_date": "2015-10-19",
            "end_date": "2019-10-21",
            "party": {
                "name": {
                    "en": "Liberal Party of Canada"
                },
                "short_name": {
                    "en": "Liberal"
                }
            },
            "label": {
                "en": "Liberal MP for Don Valley North"
            },
            "riding": {
                "name": {
                    "en": "Don Valley North"
                },
                "province": "ON",
                "id": 35023
            }
        }
    ],
    "url": "/politicians/geng-tan/",
    "related": {
        "speeches_url": "/speeches/?politician=geng-tan",
        "ballots_url": "/votes/ballots/?politician=geng-tan",
        "sponsored_bills_url": "/bills/?sponsor_politician=geng-tan",
        "activity_rss_url": "/politicians/9908/rss/activity/"
    }
}