Election Index

Election status

election_status

Read-only

Full record of one election: races, polls-close times, every count stage window (exit poll, election night, intermediate count, final result, government) with confidence and citation, the authority, sources, recorded vote counts, whether the record is stale, whether a poll-publication ban (poll_blackout) applies now, and when the exit poll is expected (exit_poll).

Input Schema

Name	Required	Description	Default
`election`	Yes	Election id, e.g. "latvia-parliamentary-2026"

Output Schema

Name	Required	Description	Default
`meta`	Yes	What this answer was built from; cite dataset_version
`result`	Yes

Schema Changelog

Changes observed during successful MCP inspections.

Changed1 schema field changedNov 4, 2026

addedOutput schema / properties / meta / properties / doi

Added value: +{
+  "description": "Zenodo concept DOI: the latest archived release",
+  "type": "string"
+}

Changed1 schema field changedNov 3, 2026
- addedOutput schema / properties / meta / properties / copyright
```
Added value: +{
+  "description": "Rights holder",
+  "type": "string"
+}
```
Changed1 schema field changedOct 26, 2026
- addedOutput schema / properties / result / properties / races / items / properties / results / items / properties / rows / items / properties / ballot_name
```
Added value: +{
+  "description": "Name on the ballot, as the authority's file writes it",
+  "type": [
+    "string",
+    "null"
+  ]
+}
```

Changed1 schema field changedOct 25, 2026

addedOutput schema / properties / result / properties / exit_poll

Added value: +{
+  "description": "When is the exit poll? An exit poll is a survey of voters leaving polling stations, never an official result",
+  "properties": {
+    "at": {
+      "description": "The one time to show: when it was published, else when it is due (UTC ISO)",
+      "type": [
+        "string",
+        "null"
+      ]
+    },
+    "ban_ends": {
+      "description": "While a verified ban is in force: at (UTC, polls close), local, citation, scope (publication: all polls; exit-polls: exit-poll results only)",
+      "type": [
+        "object",
+        "null"
+      ]
+    },
+    "basis": {
+      "description": "What the expectation, or the finding that none is published, rests on",
+      "type": [
+        "string",
+        "null"
+      ]
+    },
+    "by": {
+      "description": "Latest expected publication (UTC ISO)",
+      "type": [
+        "string",
+        "null"
+      ]
+    },
+    "checked_at": {
+      "description": "For none: when that was checked (YYYY-MM-DD)",
+      "type": [
+        "string",
+        "null"
+      ]
+    },
+    "confidence": {
+      "description": "announced, precedent or estimate",
+      "type": [
+        "string",
+        "null"
+      ]
+    },
+    "from": {
+      "description": "Earliest expected publication (UTC ISO)",
+      "type": [
+        "string",
+        "null"
+      ]
+    },
+    "observed_at": {
+      "description": "When it was published, once observed",
+      "type": [
+        "string",
+        "null"
+      ]
+    },
+    "observed_source": {
+      "description": "Page that shows the publication, once observed",
+      "type": [
+        "string",
+        "null"
+      ]
+    },
+    "official_result": {
+      "description": "Always false",
+      "type": "boolean"
+    },
+    "publisher": {
+      "description": "Who publishes it, e.g. a broadcaster and its pollster",
+      "type": [
+        "string",
+        "null"
+      ]
+    },
+    "race": {
+      "description": "The race the answer is recorded on",
+      "type": [
+        "string",
+        "null"
+      ]
+    },
+    "source": {
+      "description": "Where it is published",
+      "type": [
+        "string",
+        "null"
+      ]
+    },
+    "status": {
+      "description": "expected (due), past (due time has passed, publication not observed), published (observed), none (checked: no exit poll is published), or unknown (not yet recorded)",
+      "type": "string"
+    }
+  },
+  "type": "object"
+}

Changed1 schema field changedOct 25, 2026

addedOutput schema / properties / result / properties / poll_blackout

Added value: +{
+  "description": "Whether opinion polls for this election should be shown only behind a warning right now, checked at request time. reason \"ban\": a poll-publication ban applies under the cited law. reason \"unverified\": we hold no verified rule for this country, so we cannot say publishing is allowed; it is not a finding that polls are banned. Show polls behind a warning (mode warn) or not at all (mode withhold)",
+  "properties": {
+    "active": {
+      "description": "Show polls only behind a warning now (see reason)",
+      "type": "boolean"
+    },
+    "citation": {
+      "description": "The law and provision behind an active or upcoming ban",
+      "type": [
+        "string",
+        "null"
+      ]
+    },
+    "date_tentative": {
+      "description": "Polling day is not declared yet, so these times may move",
+      "type": "boolean"
+    },
+    "ends_at": {
+      "description": "When the ban or warning ends: the last polls close (UTC ISO)",
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "ends_at_local": {
+      "description": "The same moment in local time, with offset",
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "mode": {
+      "description": "warn: polls may be shown behind a warning; withhold: do not show them",
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "reason": {
+      "description": "ban (a verified ban applies), unverified (no verified rule; warning until polls close), or null",
+      "type": [
+        "string",
+        "null"
+      ]
+    },
+    "rule": {
+      "description": "The rule as recorded",
+      "properties": {
+        "citation": {
+          "description": "The provision",
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        "id": {
+          "description": "Rule id",
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        "law": {
+          "description": "The law, by its own title",
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        "legal": {
+          "description": "Quote, English gloss, what it covers, whether it covers online publication, exemptions, penalty, enforcer",
+          "type": [
+            "object",
+            "null"
+          ]
+        },
+        "note": {
+          "description": "Reading notes",
+          "type": [
+            "string",
+            "null"
+          ]
+        },
+        "scope": {
+          "description": "What is banned: publication, exit-polls",
+          "items": {
+            "type": "string"
+          },
+          "type": "array"
+        },
+        "source": {
+          "description": "Official text the rule was read in",
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        "verified_at": {
+          "description": "When the rule was last read against the source (YYYY-MM-DD)",
+          "type": "string"
+        }
+      },
+      "type": [
+        "object",
+        "null"
+      ]
+    },
+    "starts_at": {
+      "description": "When the ban starts (UTC ISO); null if the law sets none or no rule is known",
+      "type": [
+        "string",
+        "null"
+      ]
+    },
+    "timezone": {
+      "description": "IANA time zone of ends_at_local",
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "verified": {
+      "description": "We hold a rule for this country read against the law",
+      "type": "boolean"
+    }
+  },
+  "type": "object"
+}

Changed2 schema fields changedOct 17, 2026

added

Output schema / properties / result / properties / races / items / properties / sources / items / properties / figures_in_html

Added value: +{
+  "description": "For a results page: whether its own HTML shows a count (false: figures load by script or the page only links on; null: not read)",
+  "type": [
+    "boolean",
+    "null"
+  ]
+}

added

Output schema / properties / result / properties / races / items / properties / sources / items / properties / oracle_reads

Added value: +{
+  "description": "Settlement-oracle lab reads of this URL: right, wrong, unread, lab, at",
+  "type": [
+    "object",
+    "null"
+  ]
+}

Changed3 schema fields changedOct 3, 2026

changedOutput schema / properties / result / properties / date / description

Previous value: -"Polling day (YYYY-MM-DD)"New value: +"Polling day (YYYY-MM-DD); for an expected date, the last day of date_window"

changedOutput schema / properties / result / properties / date_status / description

Previous value: -"declared, scheduled or tentative"New value: +"declared, tentative, or expected (no day set yet: see date_window)"

addedOutput schema / properties / result / properties / date_window

Added value: +{
+  "description": "Only for date_status \"expected\": the period polling day is expected in",
+  "properties": {
+    "from": {
+      "description": "First possible day (YYYY-MM-DD)",
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "label": {
+      "description": "How we name the period, e.g. \"Q2 2029\"",
+      "type": [
+        "string",
+        "null"
+      ]
+    },
+    "to": {
+      "description": "Last possible day (YYYY-MM-DD)",
+      "type": "string"
+    }
+  },
+  "type": [
+    "object",
+    "null"
+  ]
+}

Changed4 schema fields changedSep 30, 2026
- addedOutput schema / properties / result / properties / races / items / properties / results / items / properties / electorate
```
Added value: +{
+  "description": "Registered voters",
+  "type": [
+    "integer",
+    "null"
+  ]
+}
```
- addedOutput schema / properties / result / properties / races / items / properties / results / items / properties / rows / items / properties / colour
```
Added value: +{
+  "description": "Party colour (#RRGGBB, from Wikidata)",
+  "type": [
+    "string",
+    "null"
+  ]
+}
```
- addedOutput schema / properties / result / properties / races / items / properties / results / items / properties / rows / items / properties / party_id
```
Added value: +{
+  "description": "Wikidata QID of the party",
+  "type": [
+    "string",
+    "null"
+  ]
+}
```
- addedOutput schema / properties / result / properties / races / items / properties / results / items / properties / turnout
```
Added value: +{
+  "description": "Percent of registered voters who cast a ballot",
+  "type": [
+    "number",
+    "null"
+  ]
+}
```

Changed3 schema fields changedSep 29, 2026

addedOutput schema / properties / result / properties / level

Added value: +{
+  "description": "national or regional",
+  "type": "string"
+}

addedOutput schema / properties / result / properties / subdivision

Added value: +{
+  "description": "ISO 3166-2 code of the state or region, if the election belongs to one",
+  "type": [
+    "string",
+    "null"
+  ]
+}

addedOutput schema / properties / result / properties / subdivision_name

Added value: +{
+  "description": "Name of that state or region",
+  "type": [
+    "string",
+    "null"
+  ]
+}

Changed1 schema field changedSep 29, 2026

addedOutput schema / properties / result / properties / races / items / properties / results

Added value: +{
+  "description": "Published counts we hold, oldest first (empty until a count is recorded)",
+  "items": {
+    "properties": {
+      "licence": {
+        "description": "Licence of the numbers",
+        "type": "string"
+      },
+      "published_at": {
+        "description": "When the publisher released it",
+        "type": [
+          "string",
+          "null"
+        ]
+      },
+      "publisher": {
+        "description": "Who published the count",
+        "type": "string"
+      },
+      "rows": {
+        "items": {
+          "properties": {
+            "candidate": {
+              "description": "Candidate or list",
+              "type": "string"
+            },
+            "party": {
+              "description": "Party, where recorded",
+              "type": [
+                "string",
+                "null"
+              ]
+            },
+            "seats": {
+              "description": "Seats or electoral votes won",
+              "type": [
+                "integer",
+                "null"
+              ]
+            },
+            "share": {
+              "description": "Percent of total votes",
+              "type": [
+                "number",
+                "null"
+              ]
+            },
+            "votes": {
+              "description": "Votes",
+              "type": "integer"
+            },
+            "winner": {
+              "description": "Most votes in this count",
+              "type": "boolean"
+            }
+          },
+          "type": "object"
+        },
+        "type": "array"
+      },
+      "source": {
+        "description": "File or page the numbers were copied from",
+        "type": "string"
+      },
+      "stage": {
+        "description": "Count stage of this version, e.g. final-result",
+        "type": "string"
+      },
+      "total_votes": {
+        "description": "Total votes cast in the race",
+        "type": "integer"
+      }
+    },
+    "type": "object"
+  },
+  "type": "array"
+}

First observedSep 27, 2026

TDQS

B3.2/5.0

Behavior3/5

Does the description disclose side effects, auth requirements, rate limits, or destructive behavior?

Annotations already declare readOnlyHint=true and openWorldHint=false, so the safety profile is covered. The description does add real behavioral context beyond that, notably that the record carries its own staleness flag and a blackout-applies-now boolean, which tells the agent results may be outdated or restricted. It says nothing about freshness guarantees, error behavior for unknown ids, or record size.

Agents need to know what a tool does to the world before calling it. Descriptions should go beyond structured annotations to explain consequences.

Conciseness4/5

Is the description appropriately sized, front-loaded, and free of redundancy?

The lead phrase "Full record of one election" is front-loaded and the remainder is a compact enumeration of contents with no filler sentences. It runs slightly long as a single sentence with a nested parenthetical list, but every clause names a distinct returned artifact.

Shorter descriptions cost fewer tokens and are easier for agents to parse. Every sentence should earn its place.

Completeness4/5

Given the tool's complexity, does the description cover enough for an agent to succeed on first attempt?

For a one-parameter read tool with annotations and an output schema, the definition is complete enough to invoke correctly. Most of its length goes toward enumerating return fields that the output schema already carries, which is somewhat redundant, but no calling-critical information is missing.

Complex tools with many parameters or behaviors need more documentation. Simple tools need less. This dimension scales expectations accordingly.

Parameters3/5

Does the description clarify parameter syntax, constraints, interactions, or defaults beyond what the schema provides?

Only one parameter with 100% schema description coverage, including an example id format ("latvia-parliamentary-2026"), so the schema already fully specifies it. The description adds nothing about the identifier format, valid id discovery, or what happens on an unknown id, leaving it at the baseline for high coverage.

Input schemas describe structure but not intent. Descriptions should explain non-obvious parameter relationships and valid value ranges.

Purpose4/5

Does the description clearly state what the tool does and how it differs from similar tools?

"Full record of one election" states the resource and implicitly the verb (retrieve), and the field list (races, count stages, authority, sources) makes clear what makes this tool different from aggregate siblings like upcoming_elections or next_election. It stops short of naming those siblings explicitly, so the differentiation is inferable rather than stated.

Agents choose between tools based on descriptions. A clear purpose with a specific verb and resource helps agents select the right tool.

Usage Guidelines2/5

Does the description explain when to use this tool, when not to, or what alternatives exist?

There is no when-to-use or when-not-to-use guidance at all. Notably, the description advertises poll_blackout and exit_poll data that overlap with the sibling tools poll_blackout and when_final, yet never says whether an agent should call this tool or those for such questions.

Agents often have multiple tools that could apply. Explicit usage guidance like "use X instead of Y when Z" prevents misuse.

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