Minnesota DFL federal candidate receipts — $19.4 million on Form 3

Why DFL is its own party code

The FEC candidate master uses DFL as a distinct party code from DEM. Minnesota's state party brand is Democratic-Farmer-Labor; federal candidate records from that tradition often carry DFL rather than DEM. LobbyVault therefore keeps a separate DFL party page instead of folding these 250 records into another affiliation roll-up.

That split matters for arithmetic. Mixing DFL's $19,399,357.04 into another party code without labeling the codes would blur two FEC affiliation flags. This page reports DFL as DFL: 250 records, $19,399,357.04.

The code is still candidate affiliation, not a state-party Form 3X total. Minnesota DFL party-committee federal accounts, if they file, are not this aggregate.

Cite the packet facts in this order: party code DFL, 250 candidate records, $19,399,357.04 in combined Form 3 receipts. About $77,597 per record is an average of unlike offices and cycles. DFL is a separate FEC code from DEM. This page does not merge them. Party-committee Form 3X filings that use DFL in a committee name are not this total.

Two hundred fifty rows are not a headcount of current Minnesota federal nominees. This packet does not list districts and does not name a cycle year. These figures are public records, not voting advice. Use the Minnesota DFL party page, all parties, and candidates. Cite FEC.gov as the source system. Keep Form 3 labeled as affiliation receipts.

$19.4 million across 250 candidate records

Dividing $19,399,357.04 by 250 yields about $77,597 per candidate record. That average flattens well-funded Senate rows with thinly funded House and historical rows. Two hundred fifty records is still not a headcount of current Minnesota federal nominees. FEC files include multiple cycles, offices, and withdrawn rows present in the LobbyVault roll-up.

This packet does not split the 250 by House, Senate, or president. It does not name a cycle year. If the overlay tables filter by office or cycle, use those tables. This prose stays inside the two facts.

Form 3 receipts are authorized-committee inflows. They are not independent expenditures by Super PACs, and they are not Minnesota state campaign-finance totals.

What a state-named code does not guarantee

DFL as a party code is strongly associated with Minnesota, and the party name on this packet is Minnesota DFL. The candidate records can still include federal offices whose geography is Minnesota without this packet listing districts. Do not invent a district map from 250 rows.

Conversely, a Minnesota resident running for federal office could be coded DEM, IND, or something else. This page only totals DFL. The all-parties index is the place to see the other codes on the same Form 3 basis.

Receipts, not a ballot instruction

These figures are public records. They are not voting advice. $19,399,357.04 is a receipt sum, not cash on hand. This packet has no disbursement total for DFL-coded candidates.

LobbyVault does not grade the Farmer-Labor tradition or any candidate who carries the code. The Minnesota DFL party page holds the overlay tables. Candidates is the person-level directory.

How to read DFL next to DEM

Read DFL and DEM as two FEC affiliation codes, not as a hierarchy. DFL's $19,399,357.04 is this row set. Researchers who need candidates across more than one Democratic-family code must check each code and the underlying candidate files; this packet does not perform that merge.

Cite FEC.gov as the source system. Keep Form 3 candidate receipts off of Form 3X Super PAC ledgers unless you are explicitly mixing datasets.

Two hundred fifty rows is still an FEC file, not a caucus list

DFL's $19,399,357.04 and 250 candidate records are a separate FEC affiliation roll-up. The code exists because Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor tradition is coded DFL on many federal candidate records rather than DEM. This page does not merge the two codes. Researchers who need both must check each code on the candidate master.

About $77,597 per record is $19,399,357.04 divided by 250. That average flattens unlike offices and cycles. The packet does not split House, Senate, or president and does not name a year. Overlay tables on the Minnesota DFL party page may. This prose stays on the two facts.

Party-committee federal accounts that use DFL in their names file Form 3X. Those filings are not this $19,399,357.04. Candidate Form 3 receipts stay on the affiliation side of the ledger. Independent expenditures by Super PACs are a third dataset.

These figures are public records, not voting advice. Start on the Minnesota DFL party page, compare codes on all parties, and drill to candidates for one committee. Cite FEC.gov as the source system. Do not invent a district map from 250 rows.

Questions

How much have Minnesota DFL federal candidates raised?

LobbyVault's FEC candidate-master and Form 3 aggregates show $19,399,357.04 in combined receipts for records coded DFL. That covers 250 candidate records. The total is candidate party affiliation, not Minnesota DFL party-committee filings.

Is DFL the same as DEM on FEC filings?

No. DFL is a separate FEC party code. This page totals 250 DFL records and $19,399,357.04. DEM is a different affiliation roll-up. Do not assume Minnesota federal candidates all sit in one code without checking the candidate master.

Is $19.4 million the Minnesota DFL party's committee total?

No. Party codes on this page are FEC candidate affiliation. The $19,399,357.04 figure sums authorized-committee Form 3 receipts for DFL-coded candidates. Party-committee Form 3X filings are a different report family and are not in this packet.

Should I vote based on DFL candidate fundraising?

No. These figures are public FEC records of candidate receipts by affiliation. They are not voting advice, not cash on hand, and not independent-expenditure totals.