45,000+ individual legislator profiles across 10+ national parliaments including the US Congress, UK House of Commons, and German Bundestag. The data includes biographical details, session memberships, and social media identifiers linked via unique Wikidata IDs.
Use Cases
- Analyze political career longevity by calculating the difference between session start and end dates in the 'political' table.
- Study gender representation trends across different centuries using the 'gender' column in the 'core' dataset.
- Map political networks by joining legislator IDs with 'social' media handles and external Wikidata properties.
- Perform survival analysis on political office holding using the 'birth' and 'death' columns alongside legislative term dates.
Strengths
- Covers 10+ national legislatures including the Austrian National Council, Irish Dáil, and French Assemblée Nationale.
- Contains relational tables for 'core' biographical data, 'political' career paths, and 'social' media handles.
- Features unique Wikidata IDs for every legislator to facilitate cross-referencing with external knowledge graphs.
- Includes historical records dating back to the 16th century for specific legislatures like the UK Parliament.