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Use the Term entity to define information about the tenure of an office.
Select one of the following feed types to learn more about how to use Term
with that type of feed.
Attributes
The following table describes the attributes for Term:
Attribute
Required?
Type
Description
label
Optional
string
An informative label. For use as needed.
Elements
The following table describes the elements for Term:
Element
Multiplicity
Type
Description
StartDate
1
PartialDate
Represents the start date for the current tenure of the office.
Provide the date in the form YYYY-MM-DD. If the precise
date isn't needed, provide the date in the form
YYYY-01-01. Set StartDate based on when the
politician started their current office tenure. Consider the
following examples:
Suppose a current member of the European parliament (MEP) held
the following offices:
From 1999 to 2007, they were an MEP.
From 2007 to 2018, they weren't in Parliament.
From 2018-12-12 until now, they've been an MEP.
In this case, the 2018-to-present term is their current office
tenure, so set StartDate to
2018-12-12.
Suppose a member of parliament held the following offices:
From 2007 to 2013, they were a representative from a party
list.
From 2013 to the present, they've represented an individual
district.
The 2013-to-present term is their current office tenure, so set
StartDate to 2013-01-01.
Suppose a current member of parliament held the following
offices:
From 2007 to 2018, they were an MEP.
From 2018 until now, they've been re-elected in the same
electoral district as an MEP.
In this case, the tenure for the office of the MEP starts from
2007, so set StartDate to 2007.
EndDate
0 or 1
PartialDate
Represents the end date of a person's tenure in a particular office.
Don't include EndDate when the officeholder continues in
their existing position but under a new term.
Only include EndDate in the feed if it's known with
certainty that the officeholder will leave office due to one of the
following:
Losing an election
End of office eligibility
Resignation or removal
Death while in office
Two months (60 days) after the specified EndDate, the
associated
Person and
OfficeholderId can be removed from the feed. If the
Person is elected to another office, they need to be
added back to the feed with the same stable ID.
In the case of a dissolved government prior to an election: Don't
include the EndDate until the election occurs and the
official results have been released. For members that weren't
re-elected in the election, include the EndDate set to the
date where the government body was dissolved. Members that are re-
elected will continue to not have an EndDate.
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