UK Political Donations Scraper: Electoral Commission Data

Search every UK political donation and loan reported to the Electoral Commission and get alerts for new ones.

Who it's for

• Journalists and researchers following the money in UK politics
• Campaigners and NGOs monitoring donors and parties
• Compliance and due-diligence teams checking political links

Sample output

recipientName	donorName	donorType	valueGbp	reportedDate
ThinkLabour Limited	Gary Lubner	Individual	175000	2026-09-16
ThinkLabour Limited	Lord David Sainsbury	Individual	125000	2026-09-16
ThinkLabour Limited	Gary Lubner	Individual	50000	2026-09-16

Real rows from a test run (shortened; the full output has more fields).

Price per 1,000 results

Main event: donation-row at $0.002 each, so 1,000 results = $2.00. See the Pricing tab for the current prices.

Input example

{
  "mode": "search",
  "daysBack": 90,
  "maxResults": 100
}

Who is funding UK political parties? Search every donation and loan reported to the Electoral Commission: parties, MPs and candidates (regulated donees), non-party campaigners and referendum participants. Filter by date, party, donor type, donor name and minimum value, or run a changes monitor that outputs only donations published since your last run. Official public register, no login, no API key.

Mode	What you get
🔎 search	All donations (or loans) in a date range that match your filters
🔔 changes	Only records not seen in previous runs. Schedule it weekly to catch each new quarterly publication and the weekly pre-poll reports at elections

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What you get

• One row per donation or loan from the Electoral Commission register: recipient, recipient type, donor name and type, company number, value in GBP, donation type, accepted and reported dates, reporting period and link
• Parties, MPs and candidates (regulated donees), non-party campaigners and referendum participants
• Filters by date, party, donor type, donor name and minimum value
• A changes monitor that returns only records published since your last run
• Export to CSV, Excel or JSON, or via the Apify API

Who uses it

• Journalists and newsrooms: the biggest new donors to each party the day the Commission publishes.
• Transparency researchers and campaigners: company, trust and unincorporated-association donors, repeat donors, and loans.
• Public affairs, lobbying and due-diligence teams: check whether a company, director or client funds a party or MP.
• Academics and data analysts: clean JSON/CSV/Excel exports for analysis.

Input

Field	Example	Notes
Mode	search	or changes
Record type	donations	or loans
Days back / From / To	90 / 2026-04-01 / 2026-06-30	Dates as YYYY-MM-DD
Date field	reported	or accepted (start date for loans)
Party / recipient contains	["Labour","Reform UK"]	Text match
Recipient types	["pp","rd"]	Parties, regulated donees (MPs and candidates), etc.
Donor types	["Company","Trade Union"]	As published by the Commission
Donor name contains	capital
Minimum value (GBP)	50000
Monitor name	weekly	changes mode
Max results	100	0 = no limit

Example: company donations of £50,000+ to any party in the last 180 days

{ "mode": "search", "kind": "donations", "daysBack": 180, "entityTypes": ["pp"], "donorTypes": ["Company"], "minValue": 50000 }

Example output (real sample)

recipientName	donorName	donorType	valueGbp	acceptedDate
The Rt Hon David Davis MP	Trailfinders Ltd	Company	55000	2026-07-22
Conservative and Unionist Party	Flowidea Limited	Company	250000	2026-06-11
Labour Party	Unite the Union	Trade Union	217625	2026-05-01

Output

{
  "recordType": "donation",
  "ecRef": "C0840306",
  "recipientName": "Conservative and Unionist Party",
  "recipientType": "Political Party",
  "accountingUnit": "Central Party",
  "donorName": "Flowidea Limited",
  "donorType": "Company",
  "companyRegistrationNumber": "2463564",
  "valueGbp": 250000,
  "donationType": "Cash",
  "acceptedDate": "2026-06-11",
  "reportedDate": "2026-07-30",
  "reportingPeriod": "Q2 2026",
  "ecUrl": "https://search.electoralcommission.org.uk/English/Donations/C0840306",
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0"
}

Individual donors are shown by name only, exactly as the Commission publishes them. Their addresses are never output.

Pricing (pay per event)

In plain words: $2 per 1,000 donation or loan records. Pulling a full quarter of donations for every party typically costs a few dollars at most.

Event	Price
donation-row: each donation or loan record returned	$0.002

FAQ

How fresh is the data? Parties report donations quarterly, and weekly before a general election. The Commission publishes them on its political finance search, and this actor reads that live.

Is this legal to use? Yes. This is a statutory public register, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains public sector information from the Electoral Commission.

Can I track only new donations? Yes. Use changes mode on a weekly schedule. The first run is a baseline.

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