search_candidates
ActiveTool of Open Fec
declared in 0.1.0
Search federal election candidates by name, state, or party. Returns candidate ID, name, party, office, state, district, and election years. Example: search_candidates("Biden", state="DE", party="DEM")
Parameters schema
{
"type": "object",
"examples": [
{
"query": "Sanders",
"_apiKey": "your-open-fec-api-key"
},
{
"party": "DEM",
"query": "Biden",
"state": "DE",
"_apiKey": "your-open-fec-api-key"
}
],
"required": [
"_apiKey",
"query"
],
"properties": {
"party": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Party code: \"DEM\", \"REP\", \"LIB\", \"GRE\", etc."
},
"query": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Candidate name to search (e.g., \"Sanders\")"
},
"state": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Two-letter state code (e.g., \"CA\", \"NY\")"
},
"_apiKey": {
"type": "string",
"description": "OpenFEC API key"
}
}
}No endpoints wrapped at confidence ≥ 0.70.
Parent server
Open Fec
https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-open-fec
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