Contests

get https://elections.mysidewalk.com/api/election/v2/contests

This endpoint returns Contest objects and related Election, Party, Referendum, and Candidate objects.

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Partisan and Party Specific Conests

Contests can be nonpartisan, partisan, or party specific.

Nonpartisan - "partisan": false - display all candidates, regardless of party
Partisan - "partisan": true - only display the candidates that match the voter's party
Party Specific - "links": {"party": 1, ... - only display the contest if the voter's party matches

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The partisan field can be ignored for party specific contests as all party specific contests are also partisan contests.

v2 Breaking Changes from v1

maximum field in v1 was changed to voteMaximum field in v2

The following Contest fields in v1 were removed in v2

type - use order for sorting
officeName - use name
slug - obsolete

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curl "https://elections.mysidewalk.com/api/election/v2/contests/${contest_id}" -H "Authorization: Token sample_token"

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