DEM

What $1.67 billion actually sums

The headline number is $1,674,412,539.19. LobbyVault builds it from FEC candidate master records tagged DEM plus Form 3 authorized-committee receipts attached to those candidates. Form 3 is the report family candidate committees use. It is not Form 3X, which PACs and Super PACs file, and it is not a national party committee's report.

Eighteen thousand seven hundred seven candidate records is a count of FEC candidate rows with party code DEM, not a count of people currently on a ballot. The same person can appear across cycles, offices, and amendments. Dividing $1,674,412,539.19 by 18,707 yields about $89,507 per candidate record — an average of two unlike quantities, useful as scale, useless as a typical campaign budget.

A billion-dollar party-affiliation total will look larger than any single Super PAC in the tracker because it stacks many authorized committees. That comparison is still a form-type warning: do not add DEM candidate receipts to Super PAC receipts and call the sum "Democratic money." Different forms, different filers.

DEM is a party code, not a membership list

FEC party code DEM is the affiliation string on the candidate master. Candidates self-report or are coded by the FEC's candidate file. The code does not mean the Democratic National Committee raised $1,674,412,539.19. It does not mean every DEM-coded candidate caucuses together. It means 18,707 records carry that affiliation flag in the aggregate LobbyVault indexed.

Party-committee filings — national, senatorial, congressional, and state party federal accounts — are a separate FEC universe. This page does not total those committees. Readers looking for DNC or DSCC Form 3X figures will not find them in the $1.67 billion line. They will find candidate Form 3 receipts rolled up by affiliation.

LobbyVault's Democratic party page is the overlay for the tables under this prose. The all-parties index compares DEM against REP, DFL, IND, LIB, GRE, and other codes on the same candidate-affiliation basis. The candidates index is the person-level directory those 18,707 rows feed.

Questions

How much have Democratic federal candidates raised?

LobbyVault's FEC candidate-master and Form 3 aggregates show $1,674,412,539.19 in combined receipts for records coded DEM. That covers 18,707 candidate records. The total is candidate party affiliation, not Democratic National Committee filings.

Is $1.67 billion the DNC's fundraising total?

No. Party code DEM on this page is FEC candidate affiliation. The $1,674,412,539.19 figure sums authorized-committee Form 3 receipts for DEM-coded candidates. National party-committee Form 3X filings are a different report family and are not in this packet.

How many Democratic candidates are in the total?

The aggregate includes 18,707 candidate records with party code DEM. That is a count of FEC rows, not a count of unique people currently on a ballot, and not a split by office or cycle. This packet does not further break down the 18,707.

Should I vote based on which party raised more?

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. Read the Democratic party page tables and the original Form 3 reports for the underlying filings.