Get list of MPs in a given parliamentary period

A function for retrieving Norwegian MPs for a given parliamentary period from the parliament API

Usage

get_parlperiod_mps(periodid = NA, substitute = FALSE, good_manners = 0)

Arguments

periodid

Character string indicating the id of the parliamentary period to retrieve.

substitute

Logical. Whether or not to include substitute MPs.

good_manners

Integer. Seconds delay between calls when making multiple calls to the same function

Value

A data.frame with the following variables:

response_date	Date of data retrieval
version	Data version from the API
death	Date of death
lastname	MP last name
birth	Date of birth
firstname	MP first name
mp_id	MP id
gender	MP gender
county_id	Id of county MP represented
party_id	Id of party MP represented
substitute_mp	Logical for whether MP is a substitute
period_id	Id of period represented in

See also

get_mp_bio get_mp get_mp_pic get_session_mp_speech_activity

Examples

if (FALSE) {

# Request one MP by id
get_parlperiod_mps("2005-2009")

# Request MPs from several periods by id
ids <- c("1961-65", "1997-01", "2009-2013")
mps <- lapply(ids, get_parlperiod_mps, good_manners = 2)
mps <- do.call(rbind, mps)

}