elections_status

For each election the service tracks: whether results are available, the active snapshot (label, as of, retrieved), the last check, the last error, and whether the data is stale. Use it to tell 'no results yet' from 'feed down'.

Cost: 1 unit of your allowance (see Rate limits).

ParametersCopy Anchor Link

This tool takes no arguments. Send {}.

RESTCopy Anchor Link

curl -X POST https://api.bcmcp.ca/v1/tools/elections_status \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BCDATA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'

MCPCopy Anchor Link

Call the tool elections_status with these arguments. Over raw JSON-RPC:

curl -X POST https://api.bcmcp.ca/mcp \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BCDATA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"elections_status","arguments":{}}}'

What comes backCopy Anchor Link

Every answer is the same envelope, over REST and over MCP: available, data, citations, freshness and notes. See Citations and freshness.