Participatory Politics Foundation

From county officials to city council members, from the coasts to Middle America, AskThem connects you to a comprehensive directory of local officials nationwide.

As of today, check out our 50 city government overview pages for recently-added major cities like Denver, Seattle, Cincinnati and more.

AskThem offers the most local elected official coverage of any open-source website. You can locate your mayors & city council members in two ways:

• Visit our national map to browse elected officials in all 50 states, or
• Click the “Ask your own Question” button on the homepage and enter a street address.

Below you’ll find a complete list of direct links to newly-updated city data on AskThem. As we work towards rolling out more local elected official pages soon, see how you can support our free & open-source work and expand our city coverage.

50 cities and counting on AskThem:

• Albuquerque– 2 council members & Mayor Berry
• Anchorage- 11 council members & Mayor Sullivan
• Atlanta– 4 coucil members & Mayor Reed
• Aurora– 4 council members & Mayor Hogan
• Austin– 6 council members & Mayor Leffingwell
• Billings- Mayor Hanel
• Birmingham-Mayor Bell, Sr.
• Boston– 5 council members & Mayor Walsh
• Brooklyn– 14 council members & Mayor De Blasio
• Bronx– 2 council members & Mayor De Blasio
• Buffalo– Mayor Brown
• Chicago– 51 council members & Mayor Emanuel

• Cincinnati– 7 council members & Mayor Cranley
• Colorado Springs– 3 council members & Mayor Bach
• Columbus– 2 council members & Mayor Benjamin
• Corpus Christi– 3 council members & Mayor Martinez
• Denver– 12 council members & Mayor Hancock
• Detroit– 2 council members & Mayor Duggan
• Duval County, Florida– 5 council members
• El Paso– Mayor Leeser
• Grant County, Indiana– 3 council members
• Honolulu- Mayor Caldwell
• Houston– 5 council members & Mayor Parker
• Jackson– Mayor Lumumba
• Jacksonville– 5 council members & Mayor Brown

• Kansas City– 5 council members & Mayor James
• Las Vegas– Mayor Goodman
• Los Angeles– 4 council members & Mayor Garcetti
• Louisville-Jefferson, Kentucky- Mayor Fischer
• Melbourne, Florida- Mayor Meehan
• Memphis– Mayor Wharton, Jr.
• Miami– Mayor Regalado
• Milwaukee– 1 council member & Mayor Barrett
• Minneapolis- Mayor Rybak
• Mesa, Arizona– 1 city council member & Mayor Smith
• Mobile, Alabama– Mayor Stimpson
• Newport News, Virginia– 5 council members

• New York– 10 council members & Mayor De Blasio
• Newark– 3 council members & Quintana
• Oakland– 2 council members & Mayor Quann
• Oklahoma City– Mayor Cornett
• Philadelphia– 17 council members & Mayor Nutter
• Phoenix– 3 council members & Mayor Stanton
• Portland, Maine – 3 council members & Mayor Brennan
• Portland, Oregon- Mayor Hales
• Providence– Mayor Taveras
• Queens– 1 council member & Mayor De Blasio
• Raleigh– 2 city council members & Mayor McFarlane

• Richmond– 1 council member
• Sacramento– Mayor Johnson
• San Francisco– Mayor Lee
• San Diego- 2 council members & Mayor Gloria
• San Jose– 10 council members & Mayor Reed
• Seattle– 8 council members & Mayor Murray
• Spokane– 1 council member
• Staten Island– 1 council member & Mayor De Blasio
• Summit, Ohio- 3 council members
• Syracuse– 3 council members
• Tampa– 3 council members & Mayor Buckhorn
• Tulsa- Mayor Bartlett
• Tucson, Arizona- Mayor Rothschild
• Virginia Beach– 3 council members & Mayor Sessoms, Jr.
• Wilmington, Delaware– 5 council members & Mayor Williams

Our primary data source for government info is the tremendously important Google Civic Information API, which makes it possible for AskThem to return elected official information at multiple levels for a given residential street address. This valuable free data source is complemented on AskThem by Democracy Map, a long-running open-data initiative, and our own custom “scraped” data for city governments, as part of the Knight Foundation‘s outreach to the communities of Philadelphia & San Jose, CA.

Any elected official can sign up to respond to popular questions on AskThem – it’s free, open to everyone, and easy. (Non-profit and non-partisan, too.) Read how (it takes no more than a minute) and get in touch: maryam at askthem.io.