smartvote.ch API Python wrapper

smartvote.ch is a Swiss voting advice application. In addition to helping hundreds of thousands of voters to find matching candidates, smartvote.ch provides an undocumented REST API (v2.0).

⚠️ Legacy API: The code in this repo addresses a legacy version of Smartvote's API that only covers elections between 2011 and early 2019.

Installation

• Requirement: Python >= 3.6
• pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

from smartvote.client import Client
from smartvote import elections


# See below how to get the ID of another election
election_id = elections.CH_NR_15

sv = Client(election_id)
sv.get_smartspider(responder_id=18800003737)  # Ignazio Cassis

Output:

[{'partyColorGroup': 'fdp',
  'responderId': 18800003737,
  'smartspider': [{'id': 633047, 'value': 75.0, 'name': 'Open foreign policy'},
   {'id': 633048, 'value': 96.6667, 'name': 'Liberal economy'},
   {'id': 633049, 'value': 58.3333, 'name': 'Restrictive financial policy'},
   {'id': 633050, 'value': 38.8889, 'name': 'Law & order'},
   {'id': 633051, 'value': 50.0, 'name': 'Restrictive immigration policy'},
   {'id': 633052, 'value': 19.6429, 'name': 'Extended environmental protection'},
   {'id': 633053, 'value': 22.2222, 'name': 'Expanded welfare state'},
   {'id': 633054, 'value': 77.5, 'name': 'Liberal society'}]}]

More methods (questions, constituencies, parties, lists, candidates) can be found in the example.ipynb notebook.

How to get the election ID

A table of election IDs can be found in elections.csv.