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license: odc-by
language:
  - en
tags:
  - politics
  - campaign-finance
  - elections
  - ideology
  - united-states
  - political-science
  - congress
  - voting-records
pretty_name: TYT Political Data (Parquet)
size_categories:
  - 100M<n<1B

TYT Political Data (Parquet Format)

A comprehensive collection of U.S. political data in Parquet format, combining campaign finance, congressional voting records, and legislator information.

Datasets

DIME - Campaign Finance (1979-2024)

The Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections compiled by Adam Bonica at Stanford University.

Directory Description Records
dime/contributions/by_year/ Itemized political contributions 850M+
dime/recipients/ Candidate and committee CFscores 156K+
dime/contributors/ Individual donor and PAC CFscores 36M+

Voteview - Congressional Voting (1789-Present)

Voteview roll-call voting data from Lewis, Poole, Rosenthal et al.

File Description Records
voteview/HSall_members.parquet Congressional members with NOMINATE scores 51K
voteview/HSall_rollcalls.parquet Roll call vote metadata 113K
voteview/HSall_votes.parquet Individual vote records 26M

United States Congress Legislators

Legislator data from @unitedstates/congress-legislators.

File Description Records
unitedstates_congress_github/legislators-current.parquet Currently serving legislators 540
unitedstates_congress_github/legislators-historical.parquet All historical legislators 12,222

Usage 

import polars as pl

# Load DIME contributions
contributions = pl.read_parquet("hf://datasets/Dustinhax/tyt/dime/contributions/by_year/*.parquet")

# Load Voteview voting records
votes = pl.read_parquet("hf://datasets/Dustinhax/tyt/voteview/HSall_votes.parquet")

# Load current legislators
legislators = pl.read_parquet("hf://datasets/Dustinhax/tyt/unitedstates_congress_github/legislators-current.parquet")

# Join legislators with Voteview using ICPSR ID
members = pl.read_parquet("hf://datasets/Dustinhax/tyt/voteview/HSall_members.parquet")
joined = legislators.join(members, left_on="icpsr_id", right_on="icpsr", how="inner")

Cross-Reference Keys

Dataset Key Column Links To
Voteview Members icpsr Voteview Votes (icpsr), Legislators (icpsr_id)
Voteview Members bioguide_id Legislators (bioguide_id)
Legislators icpsr_id Voteview data
Legislators bioguide_id Voteview Members, Congress.gov
DIME Recipients recipient.icpsr Voteview Members

Licenses & Citations

DIME

  • License: Academic use, non-commercial research
  • Citation: Bonica, Adam. 2024. Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections: Public version 4.0. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Libraries. https://data.stanford.edu/dime

Voteview

  • License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (attribution required, non-commercial)
  • Citation: Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet. 2024. Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/

United States Congress Legislators

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