person

Person defines information about a person. The person may be a candidate, election administrator, or elected official. These elements reference Person:

Tag

Data Type

Required?

Repeats?

Description

Error Handling

date_of_birth

xs:date

Optional

Single

Represents the individual’s date of birth.

external_identifiers

external_identifiers

Optional

Single

Identifiers for this person.

first_name

xs:string

Optional

Single

Represents an individual’s first name.

full_name

xs:string

Optional

Single

Specifies a person’s full name (NB: this information is multi-csv-internationalized-text because it sometimes appears on ballots in multiple languages).

gender

xs:string

Optional

Single

Specifies a person’s gender.

last_name

xs:string

Optional

Single

Represents an individual’s last name.

middle_name

xs:string

Optional

Repeats

Represents any number of names between an individual’s first and last names (e.g. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien).

nickname

xs:string

Optional

Single

Represents an individual’s nickname.

party_id

xs:IDREF

Optional

Single

Refers to the associated party. This information is intended to be used by feed consumers to help them disambiguate the person’s identity, but not to be presented as part of any ballot information. For that see candidate PartyId.

prefix

xs:string

Optional

Single

Specifies a prefix associated with a person (e.g. Dr.).

profession

xs:string

Optional

Single

Specifies a person’s profession (NB: this information is multi-csv-internationalized-text because it sometimes appears on ballots in multiple languages).

suffix

xs:string

Optional

Single

Specifies a suffix associated with a person (e.g. Jr.).

title

xs:string

Optional

Single

A title associated with a person (NB: this information is multi-csv-internationalized-text because it sometimes appears on ballots in multiple languages).

 
1 id,date_of_birth,first_name,gender,last_name,middle_name,nickname,party_id,prefix,profession,suffix,title
2 per50001,1961-08-04,Barack,male,Obama,Hussein,,par02,,President,II,Mr. President
3 per50002,1985-11-21,Carly,female,Jepsen,Rae,,par01,,Recording Artist,,
4 per50003,1926-09-23,John,male,Coltrane,William,Trane,par02,,Recording Artist,Saint,
5 per50004,1926-05-26,Miles,male,Davis,Dewey,,par01,,Recording Artist,III,