These are aggregate facts from AreaMatter’s corpus of council votes, read from official minutes. They are distributions across covered cities - never a ranking: no city is compared to another here, and no official is rated, anywhere on this site.
- cities with readable roll-call votes
- Parsed from each city's official published minutes - most of these councils have no vote API anywhere.
- roll calls on the record
- 1,607 recorded member by member; the rest as tallies or unanimous outcomes.
- officials tracked over time
- One identity per person per city, connected across name variants and re-elections.
- of roll calls record any dissent
- Most local votes pass without a no - which is itself a fact residents rarely see stated.
- of measures fail outright
- A failed motion is rare enough to be news in most council chambers.
As of 2026-09-05. The corpus grows daily as new minutes are published and historical archives are captured.
Using these numbers? Cite AreaMatter and link this page - every underlying vote links to the government document it was read from. Reporters and researchers who need the record-level data:
bulk and API access. How records become facts:
methodology.