Represent (Open North)

Find Canada's elected officials and electoral districts with Open North's Represent: who represents a postal code or an address at every level of government, with contact details, and search MPs, provincial members, mayors and councillors. No account or API key required.

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Action	What it does
Find electoral districts	Find the electoral districts a place in Canada is in (federal ridings, provincial districts, city wards), given its latitude and longitude.
Find representatives by location	Find the elected officials whose districts contain a place in Canada, given its latitude and longitude: the surest way to match an address to its MP, provincial member, mayor and councillor.
Find representatives by postal code	Find the elected officials (MP, provincial member, mayor, councillor) and electoral districts for a Canadian postal code, with their contact details.
List representative sets	List the legislatures and councils Represent covers (the House of Commons, provincial legislatures, city councils), with the slug Search representatives takes.
Search representatives	Search Canada's elected officials by part of their name, their office (MP, MLA, Mayor...), party, district or the body they sit in, such as the House of Commons or a city council.

Find electoral districts

Find the electoral districts a place in Canada is in (federal ridings, provincial districts, city wards), given its latitude and longitude. No API key required.

Inputs

LatitudelatitudenumberRequired: The place's latitude, e.g. 45.4215 for Ottawa.From -90 to 90.
LongitudelongitudenumberRequired: The place's longitude, e.g. -75.6972 for Ottawa.From -180 to 180.
Boundary setboundary_settext: Only districts in this set, e.g. federal-electoral-districts. Leave empty for all.

Outputs

countnumber: How many districts came back.
districtslist: The electoral districts: federal, provincial and municipal.

Example output

{
  "count": 1,
  "districts": [
    {
      "boundary_set": "Federal electoral district",
      "boundary_set_slug": "federal-electoral-districts",
      "external_id": "35075",
      "name": "Ottawa Centre",
      "url": "https://represent.opennorth.ca/boundaries/federal-electoral-districts/35075/"
    }
  ]
}

Find representatives by location

Find the elected officials whose districts contain a place in Canada, given its latitude and longitude: the surest way to match an address to its MP, provincial member, mayor and councillor. No API key required.

Inputs

LatitudelatitudenumberRequired: The place's latitude, e.g. 45.4215 for Ottawa.From -90 to 90.
LongitudelongitudenumberRequired: The place's longitude, e.g. -75.6972 for Ottawa.From -180 to 180.
Max resultslimitnumber: The most officials to return, from 1 to 100.From 1 to 100. Default: 20.

Outputs

countnumber: How many officials came back.
representativeslist: The elected officials.
totalnumber: How many officials matched in all; use Skip to page.

Example output

{
  "count": 1,
  "representatives": [
    {
      "district_name": "Ottawa Centre",
      "elected_office": "MP",
      "email": "yasir.naqvi@parl.gc.ca",
      "first_name": "Yasir",
      "gender": "M",
      "last_name": "Naqvi",
      "name": "Yasir Naqvi",
      "offices": [
        {
          "address": "House of Commons\nOttawa ON  K1A 0A6",
          "fax": "1 613 996-5322",
          "phone": "1 613 996-5322",
          "type": "legislature"
        }
      ],
      "party": "Liberal",
      "personal_url": null,
      "photo_url": "https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Parliamentarians/Images/OfficialMPPhotos/45/NaqviYasir_Lib.jpg",
      "representative_set": "House of Commons",
      "representative_set_slug": "house-of-commons",
      "source_url": "https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/search?caucusId=all&province=all",
      "url": "https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/yasir-naqvi(110572)"
    }
  ],
  "total": 1
}

Find representatives by postal code

Find the elected officials (MP, provincial member, mayor, councillor) and electoral districts for a Canadian postal code, with their contact details. A postal code can straddle districts; for an exact answer, use a latitude and longitude. No API key required.

Inputs

Postal codepostal_codetextRequired: A Canadian postal code, e.g. K1A 0A6.

Outputs

citytext: Its city, as Canada Post writes it, e.g. 'OTTAWA'.
countnumber: How many officials came back.
districtslist: The electoral districts: federal, provincial and municipal.
latitudenumber: The middle of the postal code area.
longitudenumber: The middle of the postal code area.
postal_codetext: The postal code looked up, e.g. 'K1A0A6'.
provincetext: Its province's two-letter code, e.g. 'ON'.
representativeslist: The elected officials.

Example output

{
  "city": "OTTAWA",
  "count": 1,
  "districts": [
    {
      "boundary_set": "Federal electoral district",
      "boundary_set_slug": "federal-electoral-districts",
      "external_id": "35075",
      "name": "Ottawa Centre",
      "url": "https://represent.opennorth.ca/boundaries/federal-electoral-districts/35075/"
    }
  ],
  "latitude": 45.423781,
  "longitude": -75.6974,
  "postal_code": "K1A0A6",
  "province": "ON",
  "representatives": [
    {
      "district_name": "Ottawa Centre",
      "elected_office": "MP",
      "email": "yasir.naqvi@parl.gc.ca",
      "first_name": "Yasir",
      "gender": "M",
      "last_name": "Naqvi",
      "name": "Yasir Naqvi",
      "offices": [
        {
          "address": "House of Commons\nOttawa ON  K1A 0A6",
          "fax": "1 613 996-5322",
          "phone": "1 613 996-5322",
          "type": "legislature"
        }
      ],
      "party": "Liberal",
      "personal_url": null,
      "photo_url": "https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Parliamentarians/Images/OfficialMPPhotos/45/NaqviYasir_Lib.jpg",
      "representative_set": "House of Commons",
      "representative_set_slug": "house-of-commons",
      "source_url": "https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/search?caucusId=all&province=all",
      "url": "https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/yasir-naqvi(110572)"
    }
  ]
}

List representative sets

List the legislatures and councils Represent covers (the House of Commons, provincial legislatures, city councils), with the slug Search representatives takes. No API key required.

Inputs

Name containsname_containstext: Only those whose name contains this, e.g. Council.

Outputs

countnumber: How many there are.
representative_setslist: The bodies, A to Z.

Example output

{
  "count": 1,
  "representative_sets": [
    {
      "boundary_set_slug": "federal-electoral-districts-2023-representation-order",
      "data_url": "https://scrapers.herokuapp.com/represent/ca/",
      "name": "House of Commons",
      "slug": "house-of-commons",
      "url": "https://represent.opennorth.ca/representative-sets/house-of-commons/"
    }
  ]
}

Search representatives

Search Canada's elected officials by part of their name, their office (MP, MLA, Mayor...), party, district or the body they sit in, such as the House of Commons or a city council. No API key required.

Inputs

Name containsnametext: Part of the official's name, e.g. Naqvi.
Elected officeelected_officetext: The office exactly, e.g. MP, MLA, MPP, Mayor or Councillor.
Party containspartytext: Part of the party's name, e.g. Liberal or NDP.
District containsdistrict_nametext: Part of the district's name, e.g. Ottawa.
Representative setrepresentative_settext: Only officials in this body: its slug or name from List representative sets, e.g. house-of-commons.
Max resultslimitnumber: The most officials to return, from 1 to 100.From 1 to 100. Default: 20.
Skipoffsetnumber: How many matches to skip, to get the next page.From 0 to 100000. Default: 0.

Outputs

countnumber: How many officials came back.
representativeslist: The elected officials.
totalnumber: How many officials matched in all; use Skip to page.

Example output

{
  "count": 1,
  "representatives": [
    {
      "district_name": "Ottawa Centre",
      "elected_office": "MP",
      "email": "yasir.naqvi@parl.gc.ca",
      "first_name": "Yasir",
      "gender": "M",
      "last_name": "Naqvi",
      "name": "Yasir Naqvi",
      "offices": [
        {
          "address": "House of Commons\nOttawa ON  K1A 0A6",
          "fax": "1 613 996-5322",
          "phone": "1 613 996-5322",
          "type": "legislature"
        }
      ],
      "party": "Liberal",
      "personal_url": null,
      "photo_url": "https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Parliamentarians/Images/OfficialMPPhotos/45/NaqviYasir_Lib.jpg",
      "representative_set": "House of Commons",
      "representative_set_slug": "house-of-commons",
      "source_url": "https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/search?caucusId=all&province=all",
      "url": "https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/yasir-naqvi(110572)"
    }
  ],
  "total": 1
}

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