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Next election in a country

next_election
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The next elections in one country, however far ahead: polling day and whether it is declared, still tentative, or only expected within a period, what is elected, the counting authority, and when results are expected. Answers "When is the next election in Austria?" or "When are the US midterms?". National elections by default; level "regional" answers "When are the next state elections in Germany?". Covers 390 elections in 100 countries, 2021–2030, including 23 of the 27 EU member states, the 2026 US midterms in all 50 states and the certified 2024 US presidential result, with vote counts, in all 50 states and DC.

Input Schema

NameRequiredDescriptionDefault
countNoHow many upcoming elections to return, soonest first; default 3
levelNonational: the country votes; regional: a state, region or autonomous community elects its own parliament or head (German Länder, Spanish autonomous communities, Italian regions). Default national; the answer also counts upcoming regional elections
countryYesCountry name or ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code, e.g. "Austria" or "AT", "United States" or "US"

Output Schema

NameRequiredDescriptionDefault
metaYesWhat this answer was built from; cite dataset_version
resultYes

Schema Changelog

Changes observed during successful MCP inspections.

  1. Changed1 schema field changed
    • addedOutput schema / properties / meta / properties / doi
      Added value: +{
      +  "description": "Zenodo concept DOI: the latest archived release",
      +  "type": "string"
      +}
  2. Changed1 schema field changed
    • addedOutput schema / properties / meta / properties / copyright
      Added value: +{
      +  "description": "Rights holder",
      +  "type": "string"
      +}
  3. Changed1 schema field changed
    • addedOutput schema / properties / result / properties / elections / items / 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"
      +  ]
      +}
  4. Changed1 schema field changed
    • addedOutput schema / properties / result / properties / elections / items / 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"
      +}
  5. Changed1 schema field changed
    • addedOutput schema / properties / result / properties / elections / items / 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"
      +}
  6. Changed2 schema fields changed
    • addedOutput schema / properties / result / properties / elections / items / 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"
      +  ]
      +}
    • addedOutput schema / properties / result / properties / elections / items / 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"
      +  ]
      +}
  7. Changed3 schema fields changed
    • changedOutput schema / properties / result / properties / elections / items / 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 / elections / items / 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 / elections / items / 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"
      +  ]
      +}
  8. Changed4 schema fields changed
    • addedOutput schema / properties / result / properties / elections / items / properties / races / items / properties / results / items / properties / electorate
      Added value: +{
      +  "description": "Registered voters",
      +  "type": [
      +    "integer",
      +    "null"
      +  ]
      +}
    • addedOutput schema / properties / result / properties / elections / items / 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 / elections / items / 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 / elections / items / properties / races / items / properties / results / items / properties / turnout
      Added value: +{
      +  "description": "Percent of registered voters who cast a ballot",
      +  "type": [
      +    "number",
      +    "null"
      +  ]
      +}
  9. Changed7 schema fields changed
    • addedInput schema / properties / level
      Added value: +{
      +  "description": "national: the country votes; regional: a state, region or autonomous community elects its own parliament or head (German Länder, Spanish autonomous communities, Italian regions). Default national; the answer also counts upcoming regional elections",
      +  "enum": [
      +    "national",
      +    "regional",
      +    "all"
      +  ],
      +  "type": "string"
      +}
    • addedOutput schema / properties / result / properties / elections / items / properties / level
      Added value: +{
      +  "description": "national or regional",
      +  "type": "string"
      +}
    • addedOutput schema / properties / result / properties / elections / items / 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 / elections / items / properties / subdivision_name
      Added value: +{
      +  "description": "Name of that state or region",
      +  "type": [
      +    "string",
      +    "null"
      +  ]
      +}
    • addedOutput schema / properties / result / properties / level
      Added value: +{
      +  "description": "national, regional or all",
      +  "type": "string"
      +}
    • addedOutput schema / properties / result / properties / regional_upcoming
      Added value: +{
      +  "description": "Upcoming regional elections in this country (with level national); ask again with level \"regional\"",
      +  "type": "integer"
      +}
    • changedOutput schema / properties / result / properties / total_upcoming / description
      Previous value: -"All upcoming elections we list for this country"New value: +"All upcoming elections we list for this country at this level"
  10. Changed1 schema field changed
    • addedOutput schema / properties / result / properties / elections / items / 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"
      +}
  11. Added

TDQS

A3.8/5.0
Behavior4/5

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

Annotations already declare readOnlyHint=true and openWorldHint=false, so safety is covered; the description adds genuine behavioral context beyond that — the temporal reach ("however far ahead"), the distinction between declared, tentative and expected-within-a-period results, and the dataset boundaries (390 elections, 100 countries, 2021–2030). It does not address ordering beyond a default, pagination limits, or behavior when no upcoming election exists.

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

Conciseness3/5

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

The first two sentences are front-loaded and functional, but the closing inventory ("390 elections in 100 countries... 23 of the 27 EU member states... certified 2024 US presidential result, with vote counts") reads as promotional coverage statistics rather than guidance an agent needs to invoke the tool. It inflates length without changing call behavior.

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?

With an output schema present, return values need not be explained, and the read-only annotations cover the safety profile. The description supplies scope, defaults and examples, leaving only the relationship to sibling tools and the empty-result case unaddressed — modest gaps for a three-parameter lookup.

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?

Schema coverage is 100%, so the baseline is 3. The description does add some meaning — that results are national by default, that "however far ahead" applies, and a concrete illustration of level=regional (German state elections) — but these largely echo the enum descriptions already in the schema rather than adding new semantics such as how "all" interacts with national counting.

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?

The description states a specific resource and scope: the next elections in one country, with polling day, declared/tentative status, what is elected, counting authority and expected results. An agent can tell what it returns. However, it never mentions or distinguishes itself from the sibling upcoming_elections or election_status, which appear to overlap heavily with this tool.

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

Usage Guidelines4/5

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

Usage is made concrete through example questions ("When is the next election in Austria?", "When are the US midterms?") and an explicit default (national level) with the regional case explained. It gives clear context for when to reach for it, but provides no exclusions or pointers to the overlapping siblings, so the agent must infer the boundary itself.

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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