Affiliation

AI-generated Key Takeaways

• The Affiliation entity describes the relationship between a political committee and a political party or person and is only used in committee feeds.

• Affiliation includes an AffiliationCollection element which contains all affiliations for a committee.

• An Affiliation element must contain either a PartyId or a PersonId, along with optional start and end dates for the affiliation.

• The StartDate and EndDate elements represent the earliest and latest possible dates of the affiliation, respectively, using PartialDate format.

Note: This entity is only used in committee feeds. It isn't used with pre-election, election, or officeholder feeds.

Use Affiliation to describe the affiliation of a political committee with a Party or a Person. The Affiliation element includes AffiliationCollection, which contains the full set of Affiliation objects for a given committee in the feed.

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Elements

The following table shows the elements for Affiliation:

Note: An Affiliation element must contain either a PartyId or a PersonId but not both.

Element	Multiplicity	Type	Description
EndDate	0 or 1	PartialDate	The latest possible date in which a committee had this classification. If the affiliation is current, don't include this element.
PartyId	0 or 1	IDREF	The IDREF of the affiliated party.
PersonId	0 or 1	IDREF	The IDREF of the affiliated party.
StartDate	0 or 1	PartialDate	The earliest possible date in which a committee had this classification. If a start date is unknown, don't include this element.

Examples

XML

      <Affiliation>
        <EndDate>2023-02-31</EndDate>
        <PartyId>par00001</PartyId>
        <StartDate>2023-01-01</StartDate>
      </Affiliation>

      <Affiliation>
        <EndDate>2023-02-31</EndDate>
        <PersonId>per00123</PersonId>
        <StartDate>2023-01-01</StartDate>
      </Affiliation>

      <Affiliation>
        <PersonId>per00123</PersonId>
        <StartDate>2023-01-01</StartDate>
      </Affiliation>