Illinois candidate fundraising — 2008 cycle

Joining the 2008 cycle to Illinois office state

$67,515,124 is the Illinois office-state candidate-receipt cell on FEC.gov for 2008. That figure is Illinois candidate-committee receipts for federal office in office state IL during the 2008 cycle, as grouped on FEC.gov. The matching national book is $3,257,217,142 ($3.26 billion) across 1,638 candidates. Illinois is 2.1% of those cycle dollars and 4.0% of the cycle candidate roster. This page exists because the two dimensions meet. It is not a restatement of the 2008 cycle hub alone and not a restatement of the Illinois state hub across every cycle.

Office state on this page is the state of the federal office. A Senate or House candidate listed with office state IL enters the Illinois cell for 2008 even if some receipts were raised out of state. A donor who lives in Illinois and gives to a different office state does not enter this cell by residence. The Illinois hub at /states/IL/ is the broader state view; this tie freezes one cycle.

Illinois’s 66-candidate 2008 receipt stack

Illinois’s 2008 cell holds $67,515,124 ($67.5 million) from 66 office-state candidates. Dividing receipts by that candidate count gives an arithmetic mean of about $1,022,956 per listed candidate. That mean is a ratio of two FEC columns. It is not a median, not a typical itemized contribution, and not evidence that each campaign raised the same amount. The Illinois hub at /states/IL/ mixes cycles; this tie freezes 2008 only.

Illinois versus the 2008 national total

Illinois accounts for 2.1% of 2008 cycle dollars and 4.0% of 2008 cycle candidates. Those two percentages need not match. A state can hold a larger share of listed candidates than of receipts, or the reverse. Sixty-six Illinois office-state candidates sit behind the cell, inside a 2008 cycle roster of 1,638 candidates. Neither percentage is a ranking of winners. The remaining $3,189,702,019 stayed in other office states.

The 2008 cycle table on FEC.gov shows $3,257,217,142 in candidate receipts nationwide and 1,638 candidates. After removing Illinois, $3,189,702,019 and 1,572 candidates remain in other office states. Those remainder figures are arithmetic (cycle minus state). They are not a second FEC file. Opening only this tie would hide that remainder. The 2008 hub at /election-cycles/2008/ keeps the full book; /election-cycles/ lists every cycle; /ties/ lists other two-key joins.

What Illinois 2008 receipts leave out

This join does not count independent expenditures, party coordinated expenditures, or unitemized receipts that never entered the candidate-receipt aggregate. It does not name donors. It does not say FEC receipts funded federal awards on USAspending.gov; those are different datasets even when the geography string matches. Office state IL is the seat sought, not the mailing state of contributors. Correlation between a busy cycle and a large state cell is not causation and not an election-outcome claim. Quote $67,515,124 as Illinois in 2008, and quote $3,257,217,142 as the 2008 national total — never as each other.

Illinois hub, 2008 hub, and this overlap

Read /states/IL/ for Illinois campaign-finance totals that mix cycles. Read /election-cycles/2008/ for the 2008 cycle across every office state. Read /election-cycles/ for the cycle index and /ties/ for other FEC two-dimension pages. This URL, Illinois × 2008, is only the overlap: 66 candidates and $67,515,124 in receipts, sourced to FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state.

Cite two lines, never one: 2008 Illinois office-state candidate receipts $67,515,124 from 66 candidates, and 2008 national candidate receipts $3,257,217,142 from 1,638 candidates. The first line is the join cell. The second is the cycle book. FEC.gov is the source for both. Canonical path: /ties/2008-illinois-candidate-receipts/.

Illinois’s 2008 cell is 66 candidates and $67,515,124. Residence of donors is not the grouping key; office state is. A later FEC bulk file can move Illinois’s 2008 cell and the 2008 cycle book together; this snapshot stores $67,515,124 and $3,257,217,142 as harvested. Independent expenditures remain outside both columns. Donor names are not in this FEC grouping.

Questions

How much did Illinois federal candidates raise in 2008?

$67,515,124 is FEC.gov candidate receipts for federal office in Illinois during the 2008 cycle. It is not the $3.26 billion national cycle total and not independent expenditures. Office state is the seat, not donor home address. Do not swap in the 2008 national total of $3.26 billion.

How many Illinois candidates are in the 2008 table?

The 2008 cycle book on FEC.gov is $3,257,217,142 across 1,638 candidates nationwide. Illinois is 66 of those candidates and $67,515,124 of those receipts (2.1% of cycle dollars). The table count is 66 office-state candidates.

Does this include Illinois PAC independent spending?

No. This page is candidate committee receipts grouped by election cycle 2008 and office state IL. It does not name individual donors, does not sum PAC independent expenditures, and does not treat FEC receipts as USAspending awards. Independent expenditures are outside candidate-receipt totals.

Where is the Illinois campaign-finance hub?

Use /election-cycles/2008/ for the 2008 national cycle hub and /states/IL/ for Illinois across cycles. All election cycles live at /election-cycles/. Sibling cycle-state joins live at /ties/. The 2008 cycle hub is the national book for that year.