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: "Mecklenburg County, NC"
classification: county
fips: "37119"
state: "NC"
demographics:
population: 1154681
population_under_18: 263733
population_18_64: 753043
population_65_plus: 137905
median_household_income: 87005
poverty_rate: 10.36
homeownership_rate: 55.12
unemployment_rate: 4.34
median_home_value: 406800
gini_index: 0.4921
vacancy_rate: 7.26
race_white: 518746
race_black: 346988
race_asian: 73448
race_native: 5349
hispanic: 184569
bachelors_plus: 526518
sources:
- field: demographics
source: Census ACS 2023
confidence: official
tags: [jurisdiction, county, nc]
timestamp: "2026-07-03"
---
# Mecklenburg County, NC
County jurisdiction.
## Demographics (ACS 2023)
| Measure | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Population | 1154681 |
| Under 18 | 263733 |
| 18–64 | 753043 |
| 65+ | 137905 |
| Median household income | 87005 |
| Poverty rate | 10.36 |
| Homeownership rate | 55.12 |
| Unemployment rate | 4.34 |
| Median home value | 406800 |
| Gini index | 0.4921 |
| Vacancy rate | 7.26 |
| White | 518746 |
| Black | 346988 |
| Asian | 73448 |
| Native | 5349 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 184569 |
| Bachelor's or higher | 526518 |
## Source
- demographics: Census ACS 2023