New York State Campaign Finance Filer Registry

Campaign Finance Filers registered with the New York State Board of Elections. The dataset includes entities such as candidate committees and political action committees, with details on their status, type, treasurer, and location. It provides a directory for tracking political fundraising and spending entities in New York State.

Use Cases

• Mapping political committees by geographic location using COUNTY_DESC, MUNICIPALITY_DESC, and DISTRICT.
• Analyzing the distribution of committee types and statuses using COMMITTEE_TYPE_DESC and FILER_STATUS.
• Identifying the treasurer responsible for a committee using TREASURER_FIRST_NAME, TREASURER_LAST_NAME, and ADDRESS.
• Filtering filers by the office they are associated with using OFFICE_DESC.

Strengths

• Contains a detailed schema with 18 columns describing filer identity, type, location, and leadership.
• Time series begins in 1974, providing a long historical record.
• Available on multiple government platforms (Socrata and Data.gov), indicating official provenance and accessibility.

Limitations

• Key metadata like row count, file size, and license are not provided by any source.
• The last update date conflicts between sources (2026-05-29 on Socrata vs. 2026-04-11 on Data.gov).
• Data.gov source lacks column details, limiting assessment of its completeness.

Provenance

Source

New York State Board of Elections

Collection Method

Administrative registration of campaign finance entities.

Time Range

Beginning 1974

Freshness

2026-05-29 09:21:01

Geography

New York State, United States