Data downloads & API
All data on this site is freely available for researchers, journalists, and developers.
Data is scraped from public council websites (mainly ModGov-based platforms). Please credit local-democracy.uk if you republish derivative work, and double-check figures against the source council site for anything you intend to publish.
Bulk downloads
- All councils (CSV) — summary stats per council.
- All councillors (CSV) — one row per councillor with attendance figures.
JSON endpoints
All endpoints return JSON. No API key required. Be polite — heavy users should cache responses.
GET /api/councils- All councils with summary attendance stats.
GET /api/councillors- Councillors, paginated. Query params:
council=<key>,party=<name>,limit(max 1000),offset. GET /api/councils/[key]/councillors- All councillors for a single council, with full attendance figures.
Example
curl https://www.local-democracy.uk/api/councils curl https://www.local-democracy.uk/api/councillors?council=waverley curl https://www.local-democracy.uk/api/councils/waverley/councillors
Licensing & attribution
The aggregated dataset is released under CC BY 4.0. Source data remains the property of the originating councils.
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