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Most election data comes from the Associated Press, but I don't see a place to purchase API access, may only be available to news orgs.
https://developer.ap.org/ap-elections-api/
A reddit poster had some JSONs from New York Times four years ago for 2020 but I'm not sure if you can make them work for 2024.
https://old.reddit.com/r/rstats/comments/jo1yuw/us_election_results_api/gmnxfz3/
Yeah I found the same on the AP data. I also found that reddit thread, but haven't been able to find a valid URL for this year's election. Maybe they don't make it available until voting starts?
I'll look around, I haven't done any work with the AP in years though.
Nope, no access. I'm not sure if their process but I found this.
API Keys
An API key is the access key required for making API calls. If you have not received your API key, please contact AP Customer Support.
In my state (Vermont), the Secretary of State has an rss feed that basically presents the results as an xml file. I’m using that to make some local results spreadsheets. Could be other states have similar things.
Hmm good idea, I'll take a look into that!
Some states have open data. Unsure if it's in Json though.
Take a looj at the websites that have live stats im aure u can dig somthibg out of network tab in the dev tools
One promising item I found are some json files from Reuters...
This one provides info on the candidates and the key for state ID's: https://graphics.thomsonreuters.com/data/2024/us-elections/production/events/20241105/metadata.json
This one seems like it will provide the ballot counts(0) and possibly any declared winners(1): https://graphics.thomsonreuters.com/data/2024/us-elections/production/events/20241105/summary-votes/president.json
Of course I won't know anything for sure until tomorrow evening when states start releasing their counts, but I went ahead and wrote up some code to use the files. It's something at least, and the Reuters data should be fairly timely. I hope to play around with the collected info in real time, then maybe next election I can re-use the same code.