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": "Nick Whalen",
    "given_name": "Nick",
    "family_name": "Whalen",
    "gender": "male",
    "image": "/media/polpics/nick-whalen.jpg",
    "other_info": {
        "alternate_name": [
            "nick whalen"
        ],
        "twitter": [
            "NickWhalenMP"
        ],
        "twitter_id": [
            "106829525"
        ],
        "constituency_offices": [
            "120 Torbay Road (Main Office)\nSuite E130\nSt. John's NL  A1A 2G8\nPhone: 1 709 772-7171"
        ],
        "favourite_word": [
            "post"
        ],
        "parl_affil_id": [
            "215934",
            "214152",
            "234527",
            "237228",
            "248951"
        ]
    },
    "links": [
        {
            "url": "http://nwhalen.liberal.ca",
            "note": "Official site"
        }
    ],
    "email": "Nick.Whalen@parl.gc.ca",
    "voice": "1 613 996-7269",
    "memberships": [
        {
            "url": "/politicians/memberships/4353/",
            "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 St. John's East"
            },
            "riding": {
                "name": {
                    "en": "St. John's East"
                },
                "province": "NL",
                "id": 10006
            }
        }
    ],
    "url": "/politicians/nick-whalen/",
    "related": {
        "speeches_url": "/speeches/?politician=nick-whalen",
        "ballots_url": "/votes/ballots/?politician=nick-whalen",
        "sponsored_bills_url": "/bills/?sponsor_politician=nick-whalen",
        "activity_rss_url": "/politicians/10253/rss/activity/"
    }
}