Every official, every vote, every sponsor - linked across jurisdictions and decades.
Local accountability dies in the gap between "the record is public" and "the record is usable." A council member's votes live in hundreds of separate PDFs; their sponsorships in another system; their term history nowhere at all.
GovData resolves them into one behavior graph: 187,068 officials linked to 16,074,792 recorded votes, sponsorships, and terms across 11,610 jurisdictions.
Records, not allegations. GovData provides the factual public voting and sponsorship record with clear provenance. What you build on it - a scorecard, a story, a study - is yours.
What the behavior graph makes possible
The same normalized people-votes-sponsors graph, applied to accountability, journalism, research, and civic engagement.
Voting-record reporting at speed
Pull a clean, sourced voting history for any official in minutes, not days of PDF archaeology.
- "How did they vote on X" in one query
- Surprising or against-the-bloc votes flagged
- Direct links to the meeting, motion, and packet
- Cross-city comparisons for context
Scorecards & vote tracking
Build issue scorecards that hold up because every data point traces to a public record.
- Issue-based vote tallies per official
- Attendance and participation metrics
- Repeatable, defensible methodology
- Embeddable, refreshable data feeds
Longitudinal governance data
Two decades of normalized official behavior for comparative and time-series study.
- Voting-bloc and coalition analysis
- Sponsor-network and influence mapping
- Policy-diffusion and adoption studies
- Reproducible, point-in-time datasets
Incumbent & candidate records
The full, factual public record of an incumbent's time in office - sourced and dated.
- Complete voting and sponsorship history
- Issue-aligned record summaries
- Term-by-term comparison
- Provenance for every claim
Power your own accountability app
License the underlying people-votes graph to build representative-tracking products.
- Normalized officials, votes, sponsors, terms
- Stable IDs and clean linkages
- Bulk history plus daily deltas
- API or warehouse delivery
Legislative-history reconstruction
Trace the full chronology of a matter - sponsors, amendments, votes, and timing.
- Vote and motion chronology for a matter
- Sponsor and amendment trail
- Publication and attachment sequence
- Defensible, time-stamped provenance
People, votes, sponsors, and terms - as linked entities
Not scraped text. A relational behavior graph with stable identities, normalized across vendors, jurisdictions, and decades.
What's in the graph
- 187,068 officials with normalized identities and term history
- 16,074,792 recorded votes linked to official, motion, and meeting
- Sponsorships and co-sponsorships across legislative matters
- Attendance, roll calls, and seat / body membership over time
- Two decades of longitudinal history where the source supports it
- Point-in-time provenance - every fact traces to a public record
Access options
- Per-official record exports for a story or scorecard
- Jurisdiction or region slices for ongoing tracking
- Bulk people-votes-sponsors graph for products and research
- Daily deltas with late-arriving and corrected records
Pairs naturally with our Newsroom feeds. Browse the live record at the national index ↗.
Request access or a sample
Tell us the official, jurisdiction, or issue you're working on. We'll return a sourced sample - the record, ready to use.
How access usually starts
Most engagements begin with a specific need - an official's record, a city's council, an issue across a region.
We deliver a clean, sourced sample so your team can verify the provenance and shape, then scope ongoing access if it fits.
Common starting points:
- A single official's full voting and sponsorship record
- A council or board's votes on a chosen issue
- Schema and sample records for a product feasibility test
Principal: Darius Tajanko, Original Legistar Architect
Email: info@govdataconsulting.com
Phone: (312) 767-4004
Journalists and nonprofits: ask about reduced-rate and single-story access.