CA460 Campaign Statements: Fundraising and Expenditure Disclosures

City of Los Angeles candidates and elected officeholders file Recipient Committee Campaign Statements (CA460) detailing political fundraising and expenditure activities. The dataset includes committee details, candidate names, election cycles, and filing periods. It supports tracking financial disclosures over time for transparency and compliance monitoring.

Use Cases

• Tracking campaign fundraising timelines using period_from_date, period_to_date, and election_date.
• Analyzing committee types and structures using cmt_id, cmt_name, and cmt_type_desc.
• Linking financial statements to specific candidates and elections using cand_name, ELECTION_DESC, and PRIMARY_GENERAL_FLG.
• Retrieving original disclosure documents for verification using stmt_link.

Strengths

• Cross-platform presence on Socrata and Data.gov indicates established public importance and accessibility.
• Specific column names from Socrata provide a detailed schema for campaign finance analysis.
• The dataset is structured around a standardized legal disclosure form (CA460), ensuring consistent reporting.

Limitations

• Key metadata such as row count, dataset size, and license are consistently missing or marked as 'unknown' across all sources.
• The last update date conflicts between platforms, with Socrata showing 2026-05-28 and Data.gov showing 2026-04-12.
• The Data.gov source lacks column information, limiting a complete understanding of the data structure from that platform.

Provenance

Source

City of Los Angeles

Collection Method

Filed online by officeholders and candidates as mandated by public disclosure requirements.

Freshness

2026-05-28 13:00:57 (Socrata)

Geography

Los Angeles, California, USA