# Google Civic Information API . representatives

## Instance Methods

Looks up political geography and representative information for a single address.

Looks up representative information for a single geographic division.

### Method Details

`representativeInfoByAddress(levels=None, roles=None, address=None, includeOffices=None)`

    Looks up political geography and representative information for a single address.

    Args:
      levels: string, A list of office levels to filter by. Only offices that serve at least one of these levels will be returned. Divisions that don't contain a matching office will not be returned. (repeated)
        Allowed values
          administrativeArea1 -
          administrativeArea2 -
          country -
          international -
          locality -
          regional -
          special -
          subLocality1 -
          subLocality2 -
      roles: string, A list of office roles to filter by. Only offices fulfilling one of these roles will be returned. Divisions that don't contain a matching office will not be returned. (repeated)
        Allowed values
          deputyHeadOfGovernment -
          executiveCouncil -
          governmentOfficer -
          headOfGovernment -
          headOfState -
          highestCourtJudge -
          judge -
          legislatorLowerBody -
          legislatorUpperBody -
          schoolBoard -
          specialPurposeOfficer -
      address: string, The address to look up. May only be specified if the field ocdId is not given in the URL.
      includeOffices: boolean, Whether to return information about offices and officials. If false, only the top-level district information will be returned.

    Returns:
      An object of the form:

        { # The result of a representative info lookup query.
        "divisions": { # Political geographic divisions that contain the requested address.
          "a_key": { # Describes a political geography. # The unique Open Civic Data identifier for this division.
            "officeIndices": [ # List of indices in the offices array, one for each office elected from this division. Will only be present if includeOffices was true (or absent) in the request.
              42,
            ],
            "alsoKnownAs": [ # Any other valid OCD IDs that refer to the same division.
                #
                # Because OCD IDs are meant to be human-readable and at least somewhat predictable, there are occasionally several identifiers for a single division. These identifiers are defined to be equivalent to one another, and one is always indicated as the primary identifier. The primary identifier will be returned in ocd_id above, and any other equivalent valid identifiers will be returned in this list.
                #
                # For example, if this division's OCD ID is ocd-division/country:us/district:dc, this will contain ocd-division/country:us/state:dc.
              "A String",
            ],
            "name": "A String", # The name of the division.
          },
        },
        "kind": "civicinfo#representativeInfoResponse", # Identifies what kind of resource this is. Value: the fixed string "civicinfo#representativeInfoResponse".
        "officials": [ # Officials holding the offices listed above. Will only be present if includeOffices was true in the request.
          { # Information about a person holding an elected office.
            "name": "A String", # The official's name.
            "photoUrl": "A String", # A URL for a photo of the official.
            "phones": [ # The official's public contact phone numbers.
              "A String",
            ],
            "channels": [ # A list of known (social) media channels for this official.
              { # A social media or web channel for a candidate.
                "type": "A String", # The type of channel. The following is a list of types of channels, but is not exhaustive. More channel types may be added at a later time. One of: GooglePlus, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter
                "id": "A String", # The unique public identifier for the candidate's channel.
              },
            ],
            "urls": [ # The official's public website URLs.
              "A String",
            ],
            "address": [ # Addresses at which to contact the official.
              { # A simple representation of an address.
                "city": "A String", # The city or town for the address.
                "zip": "A String", # The US Postal Zip Code of the address.
                "line3": "A String", # The third line of the address, if needed.
                "line2": "A String", # The second line the address, if needed.
                "line1": "A String", # The street name and number of this address.
                "locationName": "A String", # The name of the location.
                "state": "A String", # The US two letter state abbreviation of the address.
              },
            ],
            "party": "A String", # The full name of the party the official belongs to.
            "emails": [ # The direct email addresses for the official.
              "A String",
            ],
          },
        ],
        "offices": [ # Elected offices referenced by the divisions listed above. Will only be present if includeOffices was true in the request.
          { # Information about an Office held by one or more Officials.
            "name": "A String", # The human-readable name of the office.
            "roles": [ # The roles which this office fulfills. Roles are not meant to be exhaustive, or to exactly specify the entire set of responsibilities of a given office, but are meant to be rough categories that are useful for general selection from or sorting of a list of offices.
              "A String",
            ],
            "officialIndices": [ # List of indices in the officials array of people who presently hold this office.
              42,
            ],
            "sources": [ # A list of sources for this office. If multiple sources are listed, the data has been aggregated from those sources.
              { # Contains information about the data source for the element containing it.
                "official": True or False, # Whether this data comes from an official government source.
                "name": "A String", # The name of the data source.
              },
            ],
            "levels": [ # The levels of government of which this office is part. There may be more than one in cases where a jurisdiction effectively acts at two different levels of government; for example, the mayor of the District of Columbia acts at "locality" level, but also effectively at both "administrative-area-2" and "administrative-area-1".
              "A String",
            ],
            "divisionId": "A String", # The OCD ID of the division with which this office is associated.
          },
        ],
        "normalizedInput": { # A simple representation of an address. # The normalized version of the requested address
          "city": "A String", # The city or town for the address.
          "zip": "A String", # The US Postal Zip Code of the address.
          "line3": "A String", # The third line of the address, if needed.
          "line2": "A String", # The second line the address, if needed.
          "line1": "A String", # The street name and number of this address.
          "locationName": "A String", # The name of the location.
          "state": "A String", # The US two letter state abbreviation of the address.
        },
      }

`representativeInfoByDivision(ocdId, recursive=None, roles=None, levels=None)`

    Looks up representative information for a single geographic division.

    Args:
      ocdId: string, The Open Civic Data division identifier of the division to look up. (required)
      recursive: boolean, If true, information about all divisions contained in the division requested will be included as well. For example, if querying ocd-division/country:us/district:dc, this would also return all DC's wards and ANCs.
      roles: string, A list of office roles to filter by. Only offices fulfilling one of these roles will be returned. Divisions that don't contain a matching office will not be returned. (repeated)
        Allowed values
          deputyHeadOfGovernment -
          executiveCouncil -
          governmentOfficer -
          headOfGovernment -
          headOfState -
          highestCourtJudge -
          judge -
          legislatorLowerBody -
          legislatorUpperBody -
          schoolBoard -
          specialPurposeOfficer -
      levels: string, A list of office levels to filter by. Only offices that serve at least one of these levels will be returned. Divisions that don't contain a matching office will not be returned. (repeated)
        Allowed values
          administrativeArea1 -
          administrativeArea2 -
          country -
          international -
          locality -
          regional -
          special -
          subLocality1 -
          subLocality2 -

    Returns:
      An object of the form:

        {
        "divisions": { # Political geographic divisions that contain the requested address.
          "a_key": { # Describes a political geography. # The unique Open Civic Data identifier for this division.
            "officeIndices": [ # List of indices in the offices array, one for each office elected from this division. Will only be present if includeOffices was true (or absent) in the request.
              42,
            ],
            "alsoKnownAs": [ # Any other valid OCD IDs that refer to the same division.
                #
                # Because OCD IDs are meant to be human-readable and at least somewhat predictable, there are occasionally several identifiers for a single division. These identifiers are defined to be equivalent to one another, and one is always indicated as the primary identifier. The primary identifier will be returned in ocd_id above, and any other equivalent valid identifiers will be returned in this list.
                #
                # For example, if this division's OCD ID is ocd-division/country:us/district:dc, this will contain ocd-division/country:us/state:dc.
              "A String",
            ],
            "name": "A String", # The name of the division.
          },
        },
        "officials": [ # Officials holding the offices listed above. Will only be present if includeOffices was true in the request.
          { # Information about a person holding an elected office.
            "name": "A String", # The official's name.
            "photoUrl": "A String", # A URL for a photo of the official.
            "phones": [ # The official's public contact phone numbers.
              "A String",
            ],
            "channels": [ # A list of known (social) media channels for this official.
              { # A social media or web channel for a candidate.
                "type": "A String", # The type of channel. The following is a list of types of channels, but is not exhaustive. More channel types may be added at a later time. One of: GooglePlus, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter
                "id": "A String", # The unique public identifier for the candidate's channel.
              },
            ],
            "urls": [ # The official's public website URLs.
              "A String",
            ],
            "address": [ # Addresses at which to contact the official.
              { # A simple representation of an address.
                "city": "A String", # The city or town for the address.
                "zip": "A String", # The US Postal Zip Code of the address.
                "line3": "A String", # The third line of the address, if needed.
                "line2": "A String", # The second line the address, if needed.
                "line1": "A String", # The street name and number of this address.
                "locationName": "A String", # The name of the location.
                "state": "A String", # The US two letter state abbreviation of the address.
              },
            ],
            "party": "A String", # The full name of the party the official belongs to.
            "emails": [ # The direct email addresses for the official.
              "A String",
            ],
          },
        ],
        "offices": [ # Elected offices referenced by the divisions listed above. Will only be present if includeOffices was true in the request.
          { # Information about an Office held by one or more Officials.
            "name": "A String", # The human-readable name of the office.
            "roles": [ # The roles which this office fulfills. Roles are not meant to be exhaustive, or to exactly specify the entire set of responsibilities of a given office, but are meant to be rough categories that are useful for general selection from or sorting of a list of offices.
              "A String",
            ],
            "officialIndices": [ # List of indices in the officials array of people who presently hold this office.
              42,
            ],
            "sources": [ # A list of sources for this office. If multiple sources are listed, the data has been aggregated from those sources.
              { # Contains information about the data source for the element containing it.
                "official": True or False, # Whether this data comes from an official government source.
                "name": "A String", # The name of the data source.
              },
            ],
            "levels": [ # The levels of government of which this office is part. There may be more than one in cases where a jurisdiction effectively acts at two different levels of government; for example, the mayor of the District of Columbia acts at "locality" level, but also effectively at both "administrative-area-2" and "administrative-area-1".
              "A String",
            ],
            "divisionId": "A String", # The OCD ID of the division with which this office is associated.
          },
        ],
      }