Why this exists
A healthy democracy relies on an informed and active constituency of voters. Political systems designed not long after the invention of the printing press now struggle under the strain of modern technology and the society that relies on it. Distractions of pop culture and social media have relegated politics to just another form of infotainment, and the competition between political parties is too often viewed the way people view a rivalry between sports teams.
For that to happen, people — especially the young — have to become more engaged with the political system at large, and with the specific people who were elected to represent them. That starts with something that should be simple and usually isn't: knowing who those people actually are, and how to reach them.
How it works
Enter your address. Constituence maps it to every layer of government that represents you and pulls together real, current contact information for each elected official — no account required.
County and local aren't a gap we're ignoring — they're the actual differentiator, and the part nobody else has solved either. Federal and state data is well-served by existing public APIs; below that line, it mostly isn't. We'd rather say "coming soon" honestly than fake coverage we don't have.
What's next
The free directory you're using now is meant to stay free — look up your representatives, call or email them directly, no signup wall. Registration will unlock the rest of the original vision: build a letter to your representatives and send it to all of them at once, browse and reuse letters other constituents have written on issues you care about, and follow what your representatives are actually doing — sponsored legislation, votes, and news, in one place instead of scattered across a dozen government websites.
Where the data comes from
Every record carries its source and when it was retrieved, and nothing ships without it:
- Address → district: the U.S. Census Bureau's geocoder — free, public domain, and authoritative, since the Census is who draws the boundaries in the first place.
- Federal officials: the congress-legislators project — community-maintained, public domain, the de facto standard dataset for this since 2012.
- State officials: Open States — one integration, all 50 states.
- County & local officials: looked up by hand against each office's own government website, one jurisdiction at a time.
Elections move people, and offices change hands. A directory that's silently wrong is worse than no directory at all — which is why every gap here is labeled a gap instead of quietly left blank.