Federal District Search

When I'm searching for contacts by district, what is the correct input to return a result. For instance, I want to search for contacts in the IL-13 Congressional District, but IL13, IL-13, and 13 don't work. What is the correct input?

Official response from Jim Gilliam

13 is the correct format. I checked your nation to make sure there wasn't a problem with your data, but it looks fine. Putting 13 into federal district gives back a lot of results.

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Jim Gilliam

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posted 2016-06-22 09:57:09 -0700
Jim Gilliam

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Jim Gilliam commented
You can export everyone in bloomington and then re-import the people who you know are in the 13th district and import just the nationbuilder_id and federal_district fields. You will need to turn off “auto districting” by going into Settings > Campaign, in order to import federal districts yourself.
posted 2012-01-07 16:13:33 -0800
Tom Alte

Tom Alte commented
Yes, in this county most of the former 15 people are now in the 13. Is there any way to fix this?
posted 2012-01-07 16:02:21 -0800
Jim Gilliam

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Jim Gilliam commented
Is this a redistricting issue? I spot checked a handful of the people in that search, and they are in the 15th district in your database, that is why they don’t show up. The districts in the Political FORCE voter data are still 2000 districts.
posted 2012-01-07 16:00:23 -0800
Tom Alte

Tom Alte commented
I’m putting in 13 for Federal District, voted in the 2008 Primary, and within 30 miles of Bloomington, IL and I’m getting 0 results.
posted 2012-01-07 15:47:22 -0800
Tom Alte

Tom Alte responded

posted 2012-01-07 15:43:35 -0800