Represent (Open North) API

Base URL

https://represent.opennorth.ca

Authentication

No API key or registration. Open North asks for attribution and reasonable use; a self-hosted copy is possible since the codebase is open source.

Rate limit

Not formally published. It is a small non-profit service — cache lookups by postcode rather than querying per page view.

Pricing

Free. Represent is operated by Open North, a Canadian non-profit.

CORS

Enabled — callable directly from browser JavaScript

Official docs

Read the docs

Every request below was executed against the live API on 2026-08-21, and the response shown is the real body it returned — not an illustration.

curl 'https://represent.opennorth.ca/representatives/?limit=1'

const res = await fetch("https://represent.opennorth.ca/representatives/?limit=1");
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${res.status}`);
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

res = requests.get("https://represent.opennorth.ca/representatives/?limit=1", timeout=20)
res.raise_for_status()
print(res.json())

{
  "objects": [
    {
      "name": "Marg Gardiner",
      "district_name": "Victoria",
      "elected_office": "Councillor",
      "source_url": "https://www.victoria.ca/city-government/mayor-council/members-council",
      "first_name": "Marg",
      "last_name": "Gardiner",
      "party_name": "",
      "email": "mgardiner@victoria.ca",
      "url": "https://www.victoria.ca/city-government/mayor-and-council/councillor-marg-gardiner",
      "personal_url": "",
      "photo_url": "https://www.victoria.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2023-08/_DSC4435%2520Marg%2520Gardiner%2520High%2520Res%2520Colour.jpg?itok=S58autUA",
      "gender": "",
      "offices": [
        {
          "tel": "1 250 532-1610",
          "type": "legislature"
        }
      ],
      "extra": {},
      "representative_set_name": "Victoria City Council",
      "related": {
        "representative_set_url": "/representative-sets/victoria-city-council/",
        "boundary_url": "/boundaries/census-subdivisions/5917034/"
      }
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "offset": 0,
    "limit": 1,
    "total_count": 3812,
    "previous": null,
    "next": "/representatives/?limit=1&offset=1"
  }
}

objectsarray

The representatives. Note the key is `objects`, not `results` or `data`.

objects[].name / first_name / last_namestring

Full name plus split components.

objects[].elected_officestring

Role held — `Councillor`, `MP`, `Mayor`, `MLA` and similar.

objects[].district_namestring

The ward, riding or district represented.

objects[].representative_set_namestring

The governing body, such as `Victoria City Council`. This is what gives the role meaning.

objects[].party_namestring

Party, but usually an empty string at municipal level since most Canadian local elections are non-partisan.

objects[].email / url / personal_urlstring

Official contact address and web pages. Frequently populated, unlike most representative datasets.

objects[].officesarray

Contact points with `tel` and a `type` distinguishing constituency from legislature offices.

objects[].source_urlstring

The page the record was scraped from — use it to verify anything that looks out of date.

objects[].related.representative_set_urlstring

Relative link to the governing body's own resource.

• Show a Canadian user who represents them from their postcode
• Build a civic contact tool that emails the right councillor
• Aggregate contact details for a municipal advocacy campaign
• Compare representative coverage across Canadian cities
• Resolve coordinates to electoral districts at all three tiers