Add elections + demographics layer: candidates and jurisdictions

Two new entity types, built deterministically from the raw exports:

  Candidate (2,494)     — 2026 federal candidates as files under
                          us/states/<st>/candidates/, with office,
                          district, party, incumbent/challenger stance,
                          campaign committee, FEC id.

  Jurisdiction (3,494)  — demographic nodes carrying ACS 2023 data:
                          3,131 counties (deduped from 3,231 mixed-format
                          fips keys) + 363 congressional districts.

This completes the county skeleton nationwide: every US county is now a
browsable node with population, income, poverty, race, education and
housing — even where no officeholders are mapped yet. In Florida the
county index.md merges into the existing dir and reports its officeholder
count alongside demographics (St. Lucie: 33 officeholders + ACS profile).

build.py now reads seven raw inputs in one deterministic pass
(byte-identical on rerun). The mirror now answers: who holds power, who
runs this institution, who is running, and what each place is made of.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: Jurisdiction
title: "Merced County, CA"
classification: county
fips: "06047"
state: "CA"
demographics:
population: 290201
population_under_18: 83330
population_18_64: 172870
population_65_plus: 34001
median_household_income: 65510
poverty_rate: 19.09
homeownership_rate: 54.0
unemployment_rate: 10.56
median_home_value: 391800
gini_index: 0.4651
vacancy_rate: 5.3
race_white: 91462
race_black: 8082
race_asian: 20971
race_native: 4316
hispanic: 183933
bachelors_plus: 34910
sources:
- field: demographics
source: Census ACS 2023
confidence: official
tags: [jurisdiction, county, ca]
timestamp: "2026-07-03"
---
# Merced County, CA
County jurisdiction.
## Demographics (ACS 2023)
| Measure | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Population | 290201 |
| Under 18 | 83330 |
| 1864 | 172870 |
| 65+ | 34001 |
| Median household income | 65510 |
| Poverty rate | 19.09 |
| Homeownership rate | 54.0 |
| Unemployment rate | 10.56 |
| Median home value | 391800 |
| Gini index | 0.4651 |
| Vacancy rate | 5.3 |
| White | 91462 |
| Black | 8082 |
| Asian | 20971 |
| Native | 4316 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 183933 |
| Bachelor's or higher | 34910 |
## Source
- demographics: Census ACS 2023