Campaign Finance Pre-Election Summary For City Of Austin

A 30-day pre-election summary of campaign finance data reported to the City Clerk's office, broken down by transaction and report type. The dataset includes transaction totals for expenditure, contribution, and loan records, with the most recent items listed first. It is provided by the City of Austin in multiple formats including JSON, RDF, CSV, and XML.

Use Cases

• Analyze the distribution of transaction totals across expenditure, contribution, and loan types to identify dominant funding sources.
• Model the relationship between transaction type and report type to predict filing patterns in the 30-day pre-election window.
• Track temporal trends in reported items by leveraging the dataset's structure of listing the most recent records first.

Strengths

• Data is updated frequently, with a last update timestamp of 2026-03-25.
• Provides a focused 30-day pre-election summary for timely analysis.
• Available in multiple structured formats (JSON, RDF, CSV, XML) for flexible access.

Limitations

• The specific row count, column names, and sample data are unavailable, limiting preliminary assessment.
• The license is listed as 'notspecified', which may create uncertainty for commercial or redistribution use.

Provenance

Source

City of Austin City Clerk's office.

Collection Method

Data reported to the Clerk's office within the last 30 days.

Time Range

Covers the 30-day period prior to the dataset's last update.

Freshness

Updated on 2026-03-25; frequency appears tied to reporting within the last 30 days.

Geography

City of Austin.